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In a post-apocalyptic scenario, aliens have discovered Earth and made a museum of the humans that were wiped out by a cosmic collision with an asteroid to the planet.
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Doesn't that seem apocalyptic?
He should do more apocalyptic doom.
Hmm. Extreme, violent, chaotic, apocalyptic, somewhere in there, I think, you know.
What was that apocalyptic clonk?
It's about a dude who drives a school bus by day but by night, fights vampires in a post-apocalyptic war zone!
The news is just apocalyptic.
Then you go to the movies, turn on the telly - apocalyptic sex.
With the threat of nuclear holocaust in the 1950s, the government instructed men like your father to gather genetic data. on the general populace for the purposes. of post-apocalyptic identification.
I get so damned apocalyptic when I drink.
It's from Nostradamus, the 16th-century apocalyptic poet.
Everything was Biblical and Apocalyptic.
And a new universe, its properties calculated anywhere between apocalyptic and inconsequential, will be created.
Cartman's birthday. We can't miss the final, apocalyptic battle between good and evil.
Would you like to battle me in a post-apocalyptic world. for control of the galaxy's last remaining energy source?
He's being irascible. We want a prophet, not a curmudgeon. He should do more apocalyptic doom.
Some sort of. apocalyptic, millenarian, Christian fundamentalist.
From Nostradamus, the 16th century apocalyptic poet.
I just gotta tell ya, I thought the whole evening was apocalyptic.
Apocalyptic?
Apocalyptic prophecies aren't a science.
He has to survive coming darkness, apocalyptic battles, plagues and some several, not that many fiends that will be unleashed upon the world.
This post-apocalyptic wasteland is very confusing.
We didn't think we were dealing with an apocalyptic cult.
Baby, what if this place belongs to some kind of cult? I read in Newsweek how economically depressed places. are like breeding grounds for all kinds of apocalyptic visionaries.
Earthquakes, tidal waves, mass destruction on an apocalyptic scale!
Paris - an apocalyptic garage.
The Source didn't turn out to be my oracle of ancient wisdom, nor was it the apocalyptic nightmare that Brother Alfonze had prophesized.
Four years later, this edifying booklet devoted to Our Lady of Reims would bring those apocalyptic images up once more.
Apocalyptic? Really?
You know what, everyone seems to be operating under this assumption that we're all going to react a certain way to this and that that way is somehow going to be apocalyptic.
I read in Newsweek how economically depressed places. are like breeding grounds for all kinds of apocalyptic visionaries.
News and current affairs
More disturbing to them is his apocalyptic conviction regarding the imminent advent of the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi, whose appearance is believed to lead to the destruction of the world and the end of time.
The apocalyptic bombast is even more disturbing.
Indeed, more than 40 years after the Club of Rome released the mother of all apocalyptic forecasts, The Limits to Growth, its basic ideas are still with us.
While it's nice to see Gore bucking the trend in a nation where many influential people deny that global warming even exists, many of his apocalyptic claims are highly misleading.
The absence of direct experience with people of a different culture, race, or religion leaves space for prejudice, myths, and dark rumors, reinforced by the apocalyptic rendering of the tabloid media.
The shift of the Arab world's mainstream fundamentalist movements to democratic politics is tantamount to a repudiation of the jihadist project and of al-Qaeda's apocalyptic strategies.
An apocalyptic scenario in the making?
First came the apocalyptic collapse of fascism as Hitler took Germany with him into a collective suicide.
What was supposed to be a major international effort at mediation is deteriorating into an apocalyptic Israeli-Iranian showdown.
While Ahmedinejad's apocalyptic vision makes it difficult for westerners to deal with him, Khamenei does not want to stumble into a military confrontation with the West, which would destabilize Iran and possibly lead to the regime's downfall.
Apocalyptic beliefs have always been part of the Christian tradition.
Thus, apocalyptic moments are products of a sense of crisis: they can be triggered by wars and natural disasters.
Classical apocalyptic thinking is certainly alive and well, especially in America, where it feeds on Protestant fundamentalism, and is mass marketed with all the resources of modern media.
In secularized, pseudo-scientific form, apocalyptic thinking has also been at the core of revolutionary politics.
In his latest book, Black Mass, the philosopher John Gray discusses how political doctrines like Marxism colonized the apocalyptic vision in prophesying the destruction of capitalism as the prelude to the socialist utopia.
With the collapse of optimism, contemporary apocalyptic belief lays more stress on catastrophe and less on utopia.
Much more serious is when science itself becomes infected by the apocalyptic spirit.
Although they might not agree with either of these two apocalyptic predictions, many of Europe's leaders are coming round to the view that there is a need for change, and that the Greek case has revealed a flaw at the center of the project.
This is the paradox of Israel's existence: a sense of power combined with an ever-present apocalyptic fear of annihilation, reflected in its hostile reaction to any initiative that touches its physical security.
The focus on the Temple Mount has given the current confrontation an apocalyptic quality.
As they see it, the immediate choices in the Arab world are not between dictatorship and democracy, but between malevolent stability and apocalyptic mayhem.
The view walking - in sweltering heat - through that long cage is apocalyptic.
I do not take an apocalyptic view of what recently happened - tragic though it is for the bereaved families.