apocalyptic
अपोकॅलिप्टिक
definition
adjective
the apocalyptic visions of ecologists
describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.
example
Rejecting it would mean moving toward strike action, which union leaders are describing in 'apocalyptic' tones.
We have had a storm of 'apocalyptic' proportions this morning, with gale force winds and torrential rain for hours.
Our analysis of the larger culture was characterized by the kind of 'apocalyptic' imagery made popular by the nineteenth-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
Those who prophesied 'apocalyptic' social change faced great risks.
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.
It also has an 'apocalyptic' vision of the future.
Do you not realise the serious catastrophic, 'apocalyptic' implications if he is correct?
Inside the ring, he is a gladiator of 'apocalyptic' proportions.
Climate change is the environmental fear that provokes the greatest degree of 'apocalyptic' prophesy.
The anthemic title track was emblematic of its overall invention, set against an 'apocalyptic' backdrop; ice ages, zombies of death, nuclear errors.
Maritain saw World War II as nothing less than an 'apocalyptic' passage through unprecedented destruction.
The aim is to reach back into history to grab on to things because this 'apocalyptic' event has happened.
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 army is ferrying in troops, but they are facing 'apocalyptic' destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
The annihilation of Canada's natural resources can best be described as 'apocalyptic' .
The army is ferrying in troops, but they're facing 'apocalyptic' destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
There is nothing, in short, inherently Jewish or Christian or Muslim about 'apocalyptic' imagery.
His 'apocalyptic' vision looks more like prophecy than fiction.
Again, the only real cure to this neurosis, which is apparently taking on 'apocalyptic' proportions, would be for him to feel good about himself.
I'm not sure the 'apocalyptic' vision is helpful.
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.
Again, the gospel's 'apocalyptic' imagery denotes the end of an age and calls the people to a shared, wide-awake clarity of purpose.
As a sort of exclamation point, Jesus then uses the 'apocalyptic' imagery we have today.
This is the great long-awaited 'apocalyptic' moment.
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.
Its influences have pervaded the whole economy and the whole financial system, and its bursting may have 'apocalyptic' consequences.
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.
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.
Wasn't this 'apocalyptic' comment portentous with all the flooding and massive tidal waves around Thailand and the Indian Ocean?
This might well be related to the imagery of God depicted in 'apocalyptic' accounts.
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