apocalyptic
അപോക
definition
adjective
the apocalyptic visions of ecologists
describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.
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As a sort of exclamation point, Jesus then uses the 'apocalyptic' imagery we have today.
Climate change is the environmental fear that provokes the greatest degree of 'apocalyptic' prophesy.
Those who prophesied 'apocalyptic' social change faced great risks.
It might also be seen as a prologue to the twentieth century's proliferation of 'apocalyptic' literary imagery.
Yet despite my dismissive attitude towards 'apocalyptic' theories and prophesies, last year's Y2K version did somewhat discomfort me.
The anthemic title track was emblematic of its overall invention, set against an 'apocalyptic' backdrop; ice ages, zombies of death, nuclear errors.
It was written during the terrifying times of the Cuban missile crisis, but it depicts 'apocalyptic' visions rather than specific details.
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.
The book's second half focuses on the ethics of prophetic and 'apocalyptic' literature.
This might well be related to the imagery of God depicted in 'apocalyptic' accounts.
Even for those who did not accept these 'apocalyptic' scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world.
The annihilation of Canada's natural resources can best be described as 'apocalyptic' .
We have had a storm of 'apocalyptic' proportions this morning, with gale force winds and torrential rain for hours.
There is nothing, in short, inherently Jewish or Christian or Muslim about 'apocalyptic' imagery.
His 'apocalyptic' vision looks more like prophecy than fiction.
If the war happens then the consequences will be more than dire, they will be 'apocalyptic' .
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.
Rejecting it would mean moving toward strike action, which union leaders are describing in 'apocalyptic' tones.
These were films made in the aftermath of the 'apocalyptic' experiences of World War I which had a decisive effect on a new generation of artists in Germany.
The army is ferrying in troops, but they're facing 'apocalyptic' destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
Again, the gospel's 'apocalyptic' imagery denotes the end of an age and calls the people to a shared, wide-awake clarity of purpose.
Manichaean symbols and 'apocalyptic' scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an 'apocalyptic' Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist.
His work was seminal for understanding the role and importance of 'apocalyptic' literature and its interpretations in the lives of early seventeenth-century Puritans.
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.
How can people like Tony Blair be blind to this massive risk of 'apocalyptic' destruction and loss of freedom?
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.
Again, the only real cure to this neurosis, which is apparently taking on 'apocalyptic' proportions, would be for him to feel good about himself.
Inside the ring, he is a gladiator of 'apocalyptic' proportions.
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