apocalyptic
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definition
adjective
the apocalyptic visions of ecologists
describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.
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Furthermore, news channels would either interview astrologers or fortune tellers and ask them to give 'apocalyptic' and catastrophic predictions that would frighten people.
How can people like Tony Blair be blind to this massive risk of 'apocalyptic' destruction and loss of freedom?
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.
Maritain saw World War II as nothing less than an 'apocalyptic' passage through unprecedented destruction.
Its influences have pervaded the whole economy and the whole financial system, and its bursting may have 'apocalyptic' consequences.
Rejecting it would mean moving toward strike action, which union leaders are describing in 'apocalyptic' tones.
It was composed and published in a crucial period of European 'apocalyptic' anxiety and millennial anticipation.
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.
Manichaean symbols and 'apocalyptic' scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
All Western democracies are now acutely aware of the 'apocalyptic' consequences of a well-orchestrated attack on high-profile facilities.
Those who prophesied 'apocalyptic' social change faced great risks.
Yet despite my dismissive attitude towards 'apocalyptic' theories and prophesies, last year's Y2K version did somewhat discomfort me.
The army is ferrying in troops, but they're facing 'apocalyptic' destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
It also has an 'apocalyptic' vision of the future.
The anthemic title track was emblematic of its overall invention, set against an 'apocalyptic' backdrop; ice ages, zombies of death, nuclear errors.
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.
His work was seminal for understanding the role and importance of 'apocalyptic' literature and its interpretations in the lives of early seventeenth-century Puritans.
There is nothing, in short, inherently Jewish or Christian or Muslim about 'apocalyptic' imagery.
If the war happens then the consequences will be more than dire, they will be 'apocalyptic' .
It might also be seen as a prologue to the twentieth century's proliferation of 'apocalyptic' literary imagery.
The aim is to reach back into history to grab on to things because this 'apocalyptic' event has happened.
Rather than see social events as holding spiritual significance in a prophetic way, they dismissed literal interpretations of 'apocalyptic' prophecies.
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.
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 annihilation of Canada's natural resources can best be described as 'apocalyptic' .
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.
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.
Do you not realise the serious catastrophic, 'apocalyptic' implications if he is correct?
Again, the only real cure to this neurosis, which is apparently taking on 'apocalyptic' proportions, would be for him to feel good about himself.
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