apocalyptic
apokaliptik
definition
adjective
the apocalyptic visions of ecologists
describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.
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It also has an 'apocalyptic' vision of the future.
It was composed and published in a crucial period of European 'apocalyptic' anxiety and millennial anticipation.
Maritain saw World War II as nothing less than an 'apocalyptic' passage through unprecedented destruction.
We have had a storm of 'apocalyptic' proportions this morning, with gale force winds and torrential rain for hours.
Rather than see social events as holding spiritual significance in a prophetic way, they dismissed literal interpretations of 'apocalyptic' prophecies.
Furthermore, news channels would either interview astrologers or fortune tellers and ask them to give 'apocalyptic' and catastrophic predictions that would frighten people.
The rise of environmental politics since the late 1960s directly stimulated historical scholarship, and gave the new environmental history an occasionally 'apocalyptic' and moralistic tone.
Again, the gospel's 'apocalyptic' imagery denotes the end of an age and calls the people to a shared, wide-awake clarity of purpose.
Such stylistic whimsy hardly seems appropriate to the solemn themes of 'apocalyptic' war and nuclear disaster which consequently lose much of their weight and urgency.
Inside the ring, he is a gladiator of 'apocalyptic' proportions.
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.
Nor is he given to 'apocalyptic' prophecies.
I'm not sure the 'apocalyptic' vision is helpful.
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.
Manichaean symbols and 'apocalyptic' scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
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.
The book's second half focuses on the ethics of prophetic and 'apocalyptic' literature.
His 'apocalyptic' vision looks more like prophecy than fiction.
This report of the UK media awards describes a an 'apocalyptic' scene, as scribes, put beyond use with alcohol, heckle and taunt their peers; standing on stools, booing the MC off the stage.
There is nothing, in short, inherently Jewish or Christian or Muslim about 'apocalyptic' imagery.
As a sort of exclamation point, Jesus then uses the 'apocalyptic' imagery we have today.
Its influences have pervaded the whole economy and the whole financial system, and its bursting may have 'apocalyptic' consequences.
The annihilation of Canada's natural resources can best be described as 'apocalyptic' .
I love the way that, in the 'apocalyptic' destruction of Genesis, Nimoy sidesteps the action for the briefest second to show us the beauty of the last sunset on the dying world.
The aim is to reach back into history to grab on to things because this 'apocalyptic' event has happened.
For as long as organizations buy into, and feed, 'apocalyptic' imagery that issues from Washington, other Christian points of view demand a hearing.
Those who prophesied 'apocalyptic' social change faced great risks.
The army is ferrying in troops, but they're facing 'apocalyptic' destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
It was written during the terrifying times of the Cuban missile crisis, but it depicts 'apocalyptic' visions rather than specific details.
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