apocalyptic
ਧਾਰਮਿਕ
definition
adjective
the apocalyptic visions of ecologists
describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.
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Indeed, the current American spate of interest in 'apocalyptic' prophecy stems precisely from attempts to draw meaning from complex and difficult imagery.
Nor is he given to 'apocalyptic' prophecies.
But as 'apocalyptic' literature has come in for criticism, so has utopian-by anti-utopians, often satirists.
It also has an 'apocalyptic' vision of the future.
For as long as organizations buy into, and feed, 'apocalyptic' imagery that issues from Washington, other Christian points of view demand a hearing.
It was composed and published in a crucial period of European 'apocalyptic' anxiety and millennial anticipation.
Its influences have pervaded the whole economy and the whole financial system, and its bursting may have 'apocalyptic' consequences.
The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an 'apocalyptic' Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist.
This is the great long-awaited 'apocalyptic' moment.
If the war happens then the consequences will be more than dire, they will be 'apocalyptic' .
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.
Rather than see social events as holding spiritual significance in a prophetic way, they dismissed literal interpretations of 'apocalyptic' prophecies.
His writing is 'apocalyptic' in feel, describing a gritty futuristic world in which dream meets reality.
Maritain saw World War II as nothing less than an 'apocalyptic' passage through unprecedented destruction.
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.
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 are facing 'apocalyptic' destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
Do you not realise the serious catastrophic, 'apocalyptic' implications if he is correct?
The annihilation of Canada's natural resources can best be described as 'apocalyptic' .
Climate change is the environmental fear that provokes the greatest degree of 'apocalyptic' prophesy.
Yet despite my dismissive attitude towards 'apocalyptic' theories and prophesies, last year's Y2K version did somewhat discomfort me.
I'm not sure the 'apocalyptic' vision is helpful.
This might well be related to the imagery of God depicted in 'apocalyptic' accounts.
All Western democracies are now acutely aware of the 'apocalyptic' consequences of a well-orchestrated attack on high-profile facilities.
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.
Manichaean symbols and 'apocalyptic' scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
The army is ferrying in troops, but they're facing 'apocalyptic' destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
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.
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