1 Before them was an apocalyptic landscape of burnt villages and bomb craters.

2 We see in his novels his sinister, almost apocalyptic, vision of the future.

3 But some take a more apocalyptic view.

4 His speeches conveyed an oppressively apocalyptic vision.

5 Politics is made of messianic visions and apocalyptic goals.

6 The apocalyptic view must be rejected.

7 But Spenser's is also the voice of apocalyptic concern.

8 Before the Christmas break it became apocalyptic.

9 When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded, they retreated for the most part into traditional humility.

10 The novel has apocalyptic and millennial flourishes; it bites off the large issue of human relationships with animals.

11 These apocalyptic still lifes emphasise more strongly than the earlier work Christa Dichgans' preoccupation with the psychic reality of objects.

12 The novel's apocalyptic ending takes on a universal dimension by being implicitly compared to a nuclear holocaust.

13 We had this apocalyptic view, that if you listen to this music, life will change and become more beautiful.

14 Opponents painted a more apocalyptic picture, warning of foreign landowners and even invoking the specter of civil war.

15 The Essenes were not only greatly inclined to apocalyptic views and legalism, but they were frantically anti-Hellenistic.

16 The reason is, I'm fascinated by the apocalyptic recovery.

17 Wish the earth wasn't apocalyptic.

18 The air is chill and stagnant, the language apocalyptic.

19 Most of the prophetical Apocrypha are apocalyptic in form.

20 Parts of the ocean there look just absolutely apocalyptic.

21 Although ending the race to drink up before closing time has not moderated drinking habits, neither have apocalyptic predictions come to pass.

22 In the Sixties Gurus and pop music were the thing; the present mood is sombre and apocalyptic.

23 Secretly I've always been interested in the end of the world, the apocalyptic vision of some one like Ludwic Meidner.

24 What was the error from which he could only be saved by the apocalyptic vision of the future world itself?

25 It was not a hesitant or infant Church that was overtaken by the apocalyptic disasters of the barbarian Invasions.

26 But when Christians use imagery like this they betray their misunderstanding of apocalyptic symbolism.

27 They sat around and listened with abashed smiles as Carlo Marx read them his apocalyptic,[] mad poetry.

28 What inspires Madeleine Stowe to write a book about madness and apocalyptic visions?

29 According to the same newspaper, the deputy chief of staff, Moshe Ya'alon, thinks in rather apocalyptic terms.

30 BIn his 1968 profile of California, disguised as a novel about an apocalyptic earthquake, Curt Gentry saw this passage coming.

31 Photographers occasionally use it as an apocalyptic backdrop.

32 Also, the apocalyptic and oracular tone provides the spectators with a glimpse of the anxiety and inquietude penetrating current Japanese society.

33 By contrast, its technicolour dealings with China are less apocalyptic, but many times more complex—almost unmanageably so.

34 So,with Ignatius and with the Didache, we have moved a long way from this tiny little band of followers of a Jewish apocalyptic prophet named Jesus of Nazareth.

35 Some may bridle at the apocalyptic scenarios he raises but these often serve a legitimate purpose.

36 In contrast to the apocalyptic visions often associated with climate change, it's the widespread mundanity of climate-linked transformation that the report highlights.

37 ending the race to drink up before closing time has not moderated drinking habits, neither have apocalyptic predictions come to pass.

38 In the midst of a massive drought, two storms—thunder and dust—appeared and painted an apocalyptic portrait over Australia's Lake Eyre.

39 Eight hundred miles south of the North Pole, stalactite-like stratus clouds—churned by 90-mile-an-hour winds—and the light of a bruised dawn paint an apocalyptic portrait over Inglefield Bay.

40 But the consensus around the Gulf Coast is turning more apoplectic and apocalyptic.

41 The apocalyptic blockbuster depicts a world in which global warming triggers a cascade of events that practically flash-freeze the planet.

42 The Witnesses are a millennialist group whose beliefs are based primarily on the apocalyptic sections of the Bible, notably Daniel and the Book of Revelation.

43 Yet the movie's depiction of the fallout from climate change stretches reputable science to apocalyptic proportions.

44 Assume the role of John Connor, leader of the Resistance, in post - apocalyptic 2018 Angeles.

45 One doesn't have to search through ancient texts and soothsayer pronouncements to find more modern apocalyptic visions.

46 An even more apocalyptic bomb was created, the H-bomb, in which US military planners invested their most fervent hopes in the theory of deterrence.

47 Cosmic: What may look like a filmmaker's vision of an apocalyptic world is actually a cigarette paper.

48 "Mia and the Migoo" is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). A tunnel collapse imperiling a parent, flame-thrower violence and apocalyptic devastation.

49 He attempts to explore dismal landscapes , where apocalyptic marches echo and thunder.

50 So can the Hudson River school landscape tradition, Renaissance realism and a prehistory-infused apocalyptic futurism in which humans shape but can't short-circuit the continuum of life.

51 What was most disturbing about Mr. Bush's remarks was their black - and even apocalyptic tone.

52 After decades of decline, the city looked like a set for an apocalyptic movie, especially in the crush of winter, when the sky was a perpetual charcoal gray.

53 Nobody desires to return to chaos without having first experienced an apocalyptic vertigo.

54 But, of course, most of these news rooms were already an apocalyptic mood - and with good reason.

55 Indeed, the latest projections from reputable climate scientists border on the apocalyptic. Why?

56 Hazy, dust - filtered sunlight illuminates a landscape of eerie,[sentence dictionary] post - apocalyptic silence.

57 It is an exciting, well - paced action - thriller with apocalyptic, and adventure story elements.

58 Indeed, the latest projections from reputable climate scientists border on the apocalyptic.

59 The writer's book depicts post - apocalyptic Tokyo, where familiar streets lie deserted.

60 Your characterisation of Confucianism, with its simultaneous apocalyptic and grandiose predictions for China, is barely more than a cartoon.