apocalyptic
வெளிப்படுத்தல்
definition
adjective
the apocalyptic visions of ecologists
describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.
example
Inside the ring, he is a gladiator of 'apocalyptic' proportions.
The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an 'apocalyptic' Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist.
Those who prophesied 'apocalyptic' social change faced great risks.
Galactica makes multiple references to the day in the form of 'apocalyptic' destruction, burnt fire-fighters and the grotesque immediacy of bodies tumbling into space.
It might also be seen as a prologue to the twentieth century's proliferation of 'apocalyptic' literary imagery.
This might well be related to the imagery of God depicted in 'apocalyptic' accounts.
As a sort of exclamation point, Jesus then uses the 'apocalyptic' imagery we have today.
I'm not sure the 'apocalyptic' vision is helpful.
Indeed, the current American spate of interest in 'apocalyptic' prophecy stems precisely from attempts to draw meaning from complex and difficult imagery.
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.
It was composed and published in a crucial period of European 'apocalyptic' anxiety and millennial anticipation.
Again, the gospel's 'apocalyptic' imagery denotes the end of an age and calls the people to a shared, wide-awake clarity of purpose.
This is the great long-awaited 'apocalyptic' moment.
Do you not realise the serious catastrophic, 'apocalyptic' implications if he is correct?
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.
If the war happens then the consequences will be more than dire, they will be 'apocalyptic' .
Even for those who did not accept these 'apocalyptic' scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world.
How can people like Tony Blair be blind to this massive risk of 'apocalyptic' destruction and loss of freedom?
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.
Furthermore, news channels would either interview astrologers or fortune tellers and ask them to give 'apocalyptic' and catastrophic predictions that would frighten people.
The aim is to reach back into history to grab on to things because this 'apocalyptic' event has happened.
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.
Our analysis of the larger culture was characterized by the kind of 'apocalyptic' imagery made popular by the nineteenth-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
Wasn't this 'apocalyptic' comment portentous with all the flooding and massive tidal waves around Thailand and the Indian Ocean?
Yet despite my dismissive attitude towards 'apocalyptic' theories and prophesies, last year's Y2K version did somewhat discomfort me.
It also has an 'apocalyptic' vision of the future.
Nor is he given to 'apocalyptic' prophecies.
There is nothing, in short, inherently Jewish or Christian or Muslim about 'apocalyptic' imagery.
The anthemic title track was emblematic of its overall invention, set against an 'apocalyptic' backdrop; ice ages, zombies of death, nuclear errors.
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