apocalyptic
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the apocalyptic visions of ecologists
describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.
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This might well be related to the imagery of God depicted in 'apocalyptic' accounts.
Yet despite my dismissive attitude towards 'apocalyptic' theories and prophesies, last year's Y2K version did somewhat discomfort me.
It also has an 'apocalyptic' vision of the future.
It was written during the terrifying times of the Cuban missile crisis, but it depicts 'apocalyptic' visions rather than specific details.
Furthermore, news channels would either interview astrologers or fortune tellers and ask them to give 'apocalyptic' and catastrophic predictions that would frighten people.
His work was seminal for understanding the role and importance of 'apocalyptic' literature and its interpretations in the lives of early seventeenth-century Puritans.
Those who prophesied 'apocalyptic' social change faced great risks.
Even for those who did not accept these 'apocalyptic' scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world.
Nor is he given to 'apocalyptic' prophecies.
If the war happens then the consequences will be more than dire, they will be 'apocalyptic' .
His writing is 'apocalyptic' in feel, describing a gritty futuristic world in which dream meets reality.
Do you not realise the serious catastrophic, 'apocalyptic' implications if he is correct?
Such an 'apocalyptic' development would have consequences that, although largely unpredictable in their specifics, would be grave for the region and for the international system as a whole.
How can people like Tony Blair be blind to this massive risk of 'apocalyptic' destruction and loss of freedom?
For as long as organizations buy into, and feed, 'apocalyptic' imagery that issues from Washington, other Christian points of view demand a hearing.
The other times I see him focusing on his artwork while attending the San Francisco Academy of Art and creating his war-torn, 'apocalyptic' imagery that needs few words to explain.
Our analysis of the larger culture was characterized by the kind of 'apocalyptic' imagery made popular by the nineteenth-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
The aim is to reach back into history to grab on to things because this 'apocalyptic' event has happened.
The army is ferrying in troops, but they're facing 'apocalyptic' destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
The scribal community similarly took the destruction of Jerusalem and fit it into the 'apocalyptic' narrative of the destruction and return of once and future cities.
Despairing, however, that he would only be remembered as a political satirist and not a genuine artist in his own right, he changed his subject matter to romantic landscapes or 'apocalyptic' visions of the future.
Indeed, the current American spate of interest in 'apocalyptic' prophecy stems precisely from attempts to draw meaning from complex and difficult imagery.
The annihilation of Canada's natural resources can best be described as 'apocalyptic' .
Rather than see social events as holding spiritual significance in a prophetic way, they dismissed literal interpretations of 'apocalyptic' prophecies.
Galactica makes multiple references to the day in the form of 'apocalyptic' destruction, burnt fire-fighters and the grotesque immediacy of bodies tumbling into space.
The cover picture shows the 'apocalyptic' moment when Albion rises from his rock and sees the vision of the land as Jerusalem, having subdued and reunited the Four Zoas.
Wasn't this 'apocalyptic' comment portentous with all the flooding and massive tidal waves around Thailand and the Indian Ocean?
The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an 'apocalyptic' Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist.
He suspects this support is based on a reading of Christian prophecy that requires an 'apocalyptic' war in the Middle East as the precondition for Christ's return.
It might also be seen as a prologue to the twentieth century's proliferation of 'apocalyptic' literary imagery.
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