I probably became aware of bands like L7, Sleater-Kinney, and of course, Hole, through my love of nirvana.
nirvana baked feminist ideas right into their lyrics and image.
Her opinion of nirvana, and the tiny boy, changed entirely when she bought the “Sliver” single in October 1990.
It was the case when it was nirvana, Eminem, and Britney Spears.
For Nicki Minaj, nirvana could only be reached when all of the world knew exactly what her butt looks like.
The desire not to be is the breaking of the great wheel of birth and re-birth, and the attainment of nirvana.
And that which is sufficient unto a man is nirvana unto him—if he but knew it.
Sometimes the attorney finally reaches nirvana; the invention comes into its own.
In this divine creation Henry reached the nirvana of good things to eat.
"Then it will be what the ancient Egyptians call nirvana," said the other grimly.
1836, from Sanskrit nirvana-s "extinction, disappearance" (of the individual soul into the universal), literally "to blow out, a blowing out" ("not transitively, but as a fire ceases to draw;" a literal Latinization would be de-spiration), from nis-, nir- "out" + va- "to blow" (see wind (n.1)). Figurative sense of "perfect bliss" is from 1895.
