How To Use Apocalypse In A Sentence
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I've seen leadership schools set out on the fringes, including one in an outpost of Jerusalem that teaches would-be messiahs to lead in the coming apocalypse.
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With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests.
GetReligion
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synners tag takin' cheap shots at p. diddy talk like a pirate tea from an empty cup technological torture technology technology apocalypse--long time coming teh cheezburgr strikes again!
And Then THREE Got By Me--
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The weather invokes a metaphysical sense of coming apocalypse, signaled by the bells that continue to toll throughout.
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Woodrow and Aiden Tyler Dawson are childhood friends whose aimlessness in day-to-day life is matched only by their passion for building flame-spewing machinery to "prepare for the apocalypse.
Farihah Zaman: SXSW 2011 Dispatch Two: Coming of Age to a Theater Near You
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On the scale of media-freak-out irrationality, superbugs have more credibility than the Large Hadron Collider apocalypse, for example, but they're not even up there with swine flu.
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Although for Newton the Apocalypse would be accompanied by plagues and war, it would be the storm before the calm.
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No plague of locusts descends, the oceans don't boil over with frogs, and the apocalypse isn't ushered in because of our discovery.
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It is perhaps apocalyptic only in its contiguity with the chaos of actual war and the apocalypse of the First World War.
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It's the apocalypse, the cataclysm, doomsday, the big firework!
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In the studio David Gower, Mike Atherton and Ian Botham lurked around an unusually small cardboard coffee table looking oddly bleached-out, a sense of ghostliness accentuated by the ever-present World Cup logo with its backdrop of faceless, baying cartoon figures set against a glaring firestorm of a sky, like a Soviet-era depiction of some future cricketing apocalypse.
India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay
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But he also incorporated a 150-square-foot sunshade printed with what he refers to as a mirthful interpretation of the apocalypse by Roy Lichtenstein.
The Vatican Breaks Its Da Vinci Code
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Apocalypse comes cheap in the movies today: whatever happened to create the blasted and underpeopled landscapes of The Road, The Book Of Eli or Zombieland may have its far more plausible roots in something like what we see in Contagion.
Contagion is the latest change in Steven Soderbergh's chameleon career
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The literal meaning of apocalypse is an "unveiling" or "revelation," and this definition of the word holds true whether we consider St. John's narrative in the book of Revelation or secular chronologies that fit the events of history into a larger cosmic design.
The Enduring Appeal of the Apocalypse
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An excited little man with the staring eyes of a visionary, who harangued us for hours on end about the imminence of apocalypse.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Those who perish in the upcoming swine flu pandemic will, at least, be spared the horrors of the geomagnetic apocalypse.
Apocalypse 2012 « Gerry Canavan
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She is a domestic apocalypse in a Playtex corselette.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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They say an apocalypse is coming and, after so much destruction, many suspect it has already started.
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Last night, the Situation and company — all vulgar human muppets with no real skills and an ungodly orange glow — went right back to being harbingers of the apocalypse as they alternately got trashed, bitched about each other and freaked out over Angelina replacement Deena, a hard-partying "gremlin lookalike" per Ronnie's evaluation who just so happens to be besties with Snooki.
Watercooler: More Trash Washed Up on the Jersey Shore
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But I am sure that nothing in Apocalypse or the Bible as a whole indicates that such will be the case.
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Nevertheless, for all its riches Apocalypse Now was fundamentally flawed by its resolution.
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The book offers a vision of the future in which there is a great nuclear apocalypse.
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Imagine being Thief of Bagdad, title apropos to these times, as a Chinese American at Graumann's Chinese Theatre, then in its Chinarama phase, chock-a-block with faux orientalism, a chinkee apocalypse in plastic and red paper.
GreenCine Daily
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It ticked away, indifferent to the apocalypse that had overtaken its owner.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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These Lutherans were pietist and puritanical, expecting the imminent apocalypse.
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I thought of what Amy had told me of the Fellowship, its hatred for what it perceived as human weakness and fallibility; of Faulkner's ornate Apocalypses, visions of the final judgment; and of the word hacked beneath James Jessop's name on a length of dirt-encrusted wood.
The Killing Kind
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So how did that affect you and what your strategy was in figuring out what a negotiation with him should be because if you believe in the apocalypse, then you believe you might die soon, and any conflagration is just further sign that yeah, the end is near, and that's a good thing.
'Stalling For Time' With An FBI Hostage Negotiator
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The stationer's is pretty deserted but the supermarket's stuffed with holiday shoppers, panic buying as though there's going to be some festive apocalypse; perhaps they know something I don't.
Crown-of-thorns
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The "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is a term used to describe a concept from the New Testament of the Christian Bible, in chapter six of the Book of Revelation.
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Perhaps because of antics such as these, and Woodrow and Aiden's fascinations, the word "apocalypse" has been thrown around in connection with the film.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) - No, not the ritual sacrifice of a caribou at the end.
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Although there are many rascals to be thrown out, we can only deal with impending apocalypse by changing ourselves and our piggish habits.
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The stationer's is pretty deserted but the supermarket's stuffed with holiday shoppers, panic buying as though there's going to be some festive apocalypse; perhaps they know something I don't.
Crown-of-thorns
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Apocalypse, holiness and filthiness would not be spoken of abstractedly, that is, apart from holy and _filthy_ persons, and in like manner righteousness and unrighteousness would not be mentioned apart from their necessary {117} antecedents, _personal_ righteous and unrighteous _deeds_.
An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality
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The sad thing about people who confidently predict the apocalypse is that they look so foolish when it fails to materialise.
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Act 3 includes the Ride of the Valkyries which few festival goers will fail to recognise as the theme music to the film Apocalypse Now.
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This year the New York Asian Film Festival says ³fiddle dee dee² to the economic apocalypse and we¹re singing in the rain of fire and brimstone that heralds the end of the world.
Twitch
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An excited little man with the staring eyes of a visionary, who harangued us for hours on end about the imminence of apocalypse.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The president of a country about to go nuclear is a confirmed believer in the coming apocalypse.
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There is no hero worship of the leader, no particularly unusual rituals, no millennial apocalypses or anything else that would set off alarm bells.
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The Apocalypse was drawing near and all he could do to stop it was kill.
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Bill Czolgosz alters, edits, expurgates, massacres and abridges the original Twain narrative with gusto; and delivers up a whimsyladen trek through the rotting heart of the Zombie Apocalypse.
The War of The Worlds
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It deflects our gaze from the real threats of economic meltdown, political complicity, and environmental apocalypse.
Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny
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Rand Simberg reflects on the delayed apocalypse as well as the inadvisability of having a name unsuitable to one's gender.
The Speculist: June 2005 Archives
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I had a formative experience in the early 1980s, at the Lawrence Labs in Livermore, California, hearing Herman Kahn, a far-famed apocalypse imaginer from the Hudson Institute, talk about kill ratios as he gamed various nuclear scenarios.
Scott Malcomson: The Intelligence Community and Obama's Future
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We were there to see what would have been the apocalypse, the oblivion, the end.
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Our sick society and stupid economics are dragging the planet to the edge of apocalypse.
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It scared me, and it takes things like "the world's going to end" or "the apocalypse is approaching" to scare me.
Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net
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Lyman Lamartine would somehow wangle his way out of the great Native apocalypse.
THE BINGO PALACE
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It was the nearest thing to an apocalypse Europe has ever seen, Simon says.
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The day we have a low tide during which sea doesn't ‘recede’ is the day of a serious apocalypse.
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The other themes are genetic manipulation, ‘post-apocalypse’, and totalitarianism.
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Madame Cleo, who is now as widely known as a diseuse, a liseuse, a friseuse and a clairvoyante, leaped into sudden prominence last November by her startling announcement that the seven letters in the Kaiser's name W i l h e l m represented the seven great beasts of the apocalypse; in the next month she electrified all Paris by her disclosure that the four letters of the word C z a r-- by substituting the figure 1 for C, 9 for Z, 1 for A, and 7 for R produce the date 1917, and indicated a revolution in Russia.
The Hohenzollerns in America
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Apocalypses usually describe historical events in metaphorical terms and also make predictions for the future.
RCIA Presentation: The Old Testament
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I don't like it when anyone tries to motivate me with bogeymen or a fear of some coming apocalypse.
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Now, with issue #10, things are racing towards a dramatic conclusion as the events of the past 9 issues hurtle the crew towards what is now know as the “cylon apocalypse” (as seen in the re-imagined mini-series) and the reasons for the decommissioning of the Galactica are about to be revealed!
Dynamite Sneak Peek: Battlestar Galactica: Season Zero #10 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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Young people to prevent the apocalypse which is creeping up on us in the very midst of our plenty.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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With Apocalypse Now Redux ringing in at 197 minutes, Coppola and his audience are embarking on a real tour of duty - and like the Vietnam War itself, this is no in-and-out operation.
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But no matter what further compromise is reached, some will still regard it as the apocalypse.
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What results is a constant raising of the stakes in the same game, the annunciation of an apocalypse, a final unveiling.
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Thank god making him humanoid is a bad idea but he does looks awesome (Kinda like apocalypse)
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Galactus, our big blender in the sky!
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It is important to realise that the earthquake was not a total apocalypse.
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The living beings (zoa) so often mentioned in St. John's Apocalypse can only be taken as parallel to those in Ezechiel, and their personal existence in St. John's mind cannot be doubted.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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It also enticingly refuses to stoop to simple explanations, keeping the precise cause of the apocalypse – an extreme weather event?
Summer readings: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Apocalypse-averting dolphins make me feel syzygy all over.
A Word
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The four horsemen of the apocalypse really must be starting to circle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes it would be a baneful herald of the apocalypse for children to read the dictionary of all things.
Today's Little Rainbow
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The Apocalypse has come from under cover and is therefore apparent in the Book of Revelations.
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In the divine realm, fire symbolizes the universal conflagration of the apocalypse which will destroy men's sinful bodies.
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Now this city has become a conservatory of audacity, a museum of successful liberations, a tomb for 300,000 activists, escapees from the merry apocalypse of the sixties — the proof, too, that perhaps the time has come in America to choose between reality and commemoration, between living and surviving.
Road Trip: Part II
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Suppose this point then settled, for anything would be remarkable and highly rememberable which comes near to a common familiar fraction of so vast a period in human affairs as a millennium [a term consecrated to our Christian ears, (1) by its use in the Apocalypse; (2) by its symbolic use in representing the long Sabbath of rest from sin and misery, and finally (3) even to the profane ear by the fact of its being the largest period which we employ in our historical estimates].
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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While they awaited the apocalypse-which was predicted for midnight, December 31, 2000-they lived in compounds, wore uniforms, worked twelve hour days in the sugar fields, and fasted two days a week.
Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa - Boing Boing
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The consummation is when the seer looks up from earth into the unseen world, and has the future shown to him by angels, that is, apocalypse.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Brando's arrival on set unprepared and overweight, necessitating his being shot only from certain angles in dim lighting, has now been incorporated into film-making legend, described in George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr's documentary Hearts of Darkness: AFilm-maker's Apocalypse.
Apocalypse Now: No 1
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All that lay ahead was the seventh age, the period of the Apocalypse and the end of history.
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The digression is far too short and undeveloped to plausibly stand on its own as an apocalypse without such an intertextual hermeneutical link.
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(The sentence, "Following in the footsteps of Miley Cyrus, he just came out with an autobiography," is one of the predicted thirty-six pop culture signs of the Apocalypse.)
Welcome back, Chilean miners!
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His face was pocked from bad food or disease and he thought he was a confederate general or in Apocalypse Now.
WHITE LIES
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In a column a few days ago I mentioned the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of whom is Pestilence.
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In all three, the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride rampant.
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The Guardian has noted the floods and the fuel crisis, and is asking Can You Survive the British Apocalypse?
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Myaskovsky's Sixth, written in 1924, is rooted in post-Romanticism, while its stance, equating the Revolution with the biblical apocalypse, links it to the Russian symbolists of the previous decade.
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Over the years, peace activism has grown stronger and more vocal, thus reducing chances of any man-made apocalypses.
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Famed US actor Dennis Hopper, who starred in such cinematic classics as "Easy Rider" and "Apocalypse Now, " during a career spanning more than half a century, is dying of cancer, AP reported.
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Time of the Wolf is wholly transparent in its operations - like The Piano Teacher, it only exists on one level of narrative diegesis, describing the aftermath of a global apocalypse.
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Can't decide whether to crouch and cower while I await the apocalypse or run determinedly into it.
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These days the apocalypse is a profitable business.
9 Companies Cashing In On Our Doomsday Fears (PHOTOS)
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Victorinus, bishop of Pettau in Pannonia, who suffered martyrdom under Diocletian in A.D. 303, wrote the earliest extant commentary on the Apocalypse.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Joachim of Fiore saw the millennial pattern of apocalypse as the very pattern of providential history itself.
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The mock (and ambiguously historical) apocalypse provides the setting for the sexual thematics that comprise the main matter of Garter's book.
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It is the one apocalypse that is truly and completely final, offering no Rapture, no salvation of the chosen, and no punishment of the damned.
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As a frontispiece, the book reproduces a plate by Albrecht Durer from his 1498 Apocalypse of Saint John, in which the picture of a book prefigures millennial revelations.
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An artist was finishing a vigorous painting of the Angel in the Apocalypse coming from the rising sun.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are standing off in the distance, giggling at us.
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I think an old piece of broccoflower will trigger the apocalypse.
Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » Summer Heat giveaway
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Irvine's previous novel, A Scattering of Jades, combined Mammoth Cave, Aaron Burr, and P.T. Barnum with Aztec mummies and the Millerite apocalypse; it felt heftier than OKOS does, and its magic captured the True Powers Feel of "I know how this works, but if I told you straight out your eyes would melt, so I'm just going to describe it allusively" somewhat better.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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That means improving microcirculation to the disks by avoiding obesity, smoking and diabetes, a trio I've come to regard as the three horseman of the health apocalypse.
Mel Walsh: Growing Down: What to Do About Height Loss
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ROBERTS: See, I'm thinking that hairless oracle of the apocalypse works well because then we call him the "hoa" (ph), right?
CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2008
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We live in the age of the final , ultimate Apocalypse.
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These modernist writers wrote at what they took to be a moment of transition, between two apocalypses, one historical - and thus merely destructive - and one to be imagined.
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Science treasures its own apocalypses, but the writer claims that the modern environmental movement lacks a sense of redemption and is therefore destined to remain in the political margins.
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These ominous odes rumble like the storm clouds before the apocalypse and will have you laughing and crying at the same time.
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If deployed along a certain small strip, Soviet armored forces could penetrate the West and unleash apocalypse.
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Lines of scripture, the great white bird Taiamai, kowhaiwhai painting and gang patches are elegantly arrayed across fields of utter blackness in these works, a blackness that points both to creation and apocalypse.
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In the scenes from the Apocalypse or from Serbian myths and legends, drama and exaltation prevail.
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Both shows also have their moments of absorbing drama and distasteful levels of bullheadedness, set against an American backdrop that once again seems mere steps away from the full-on, Cormac McCarthy-style apocalypse.
'Storage Wars' and 'Gold Rush: Alaska' are mining at the recessionary frontier
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The prospect of Hillary bringing out every last dittohead and apocalypse-awaiter to vote against their local candidates in November doesn't exactly thrill them either.
Big Conservative Attack Ad Proves A Bust
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It is this priority of visions, hymns, and poems that leads me to the Apocalypse of John for this second study.
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He preached, prophesied imminent apocalypse, attracted devoted followers, performed faith healings and exorcisms, and even had a vision of the devil after fasting 40 days in the desert.
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For someone who's supposed to bring about the Apocalypse, Promethea has a wicked sense of humour.
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His face was pocked from bad food or disease and he thought he was a confederate general or in Apocalypse Now.
WHITE LIES
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Dave Griffiths presents his film and lightbox installation Seer's Catalogue, a series of variations on a theme that, with deadpan earnestness, takes in primordial myth and post-nuclear apocalypse, accompanied with a melodramatic voiceover: "They penetrated my eyes … I needed to find an explanation … So I peered in their nests … That was my downfall …" The film is a flickering collage of naff B-movie sequences overlaid with a faded soundtrack.
This week's new exhibitions
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Civilization is on the brink of apocalypse.
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As an advocate for hard times and the impending global apocalypse, I'm disappointed whenever a potential murderous despot loses his insane grip on the world.
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They do not realize what the modern son of man tells us, that the Greek word "Apocalypse" actually means to "uncover, reveal, or unveil" the truth that has been ignored, forgotten, misinterpreted and misunderstood, and the phrase apokalupsis eschaton literally means "revelation at the end of the aeon, or age.
Capricorn Solar Eclipse, January 14-15, 2010: Planting the Vision of a People's New World Order
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Is that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse we can see in the distance?
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Last month, I blogged about a group of Mad Max superfan cosplayers who hied themselves out to the desert in a variety of amazing vehicles (including a flying one-person chopper!) and costumes and spent the weekend playing at apocalypse.
Boing Boing
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We must maintain our visions, prophesy hope, and remain faithful and committed to the struggle, even and especially when facing so many daily apocalypses and forms of death.
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Even though we haven’t gone through armageddon or an apocalypse (though some would probably beg to differ), we are living in what conceivably is someones future.
The Last Train | SciFi UK Review
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Its been a good few weeks since I last freaked out over the impending apocalypse, and I figured that watching this would get me sufficiently paranoid for the next month or so.
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Haven’t we seen this plot in Dances with Wolves, The Word for World is Forest, Apocalypse Now, The Martian Chronicles, Cameron’s own The Abyss, and assorted candidates from multiple genres in various books and movies, pretty much from 1960 onward?
Avatar thoughts « Third Point of Singularity
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The Catholic view of the Apocalypse was that it would begin with an event known as the rapture.
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As ever, Roth has the ability to suggest a vast historical catastrophe through the tiny apocalypses of ordinary life, which he renders with all of Baudelaire's poetic acuity.
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No one, may I add, was ever better furnished for that gesture of intimate apocalypse: he had the large and lustred eye, the heavy reef of eyebrow, which could make a wink seem as physically massive as a shrug.
O Rare Don Marquis
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Rolin rushed through the next seven hours as though the Apocalypse was coming.
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Perhaps the most conspicuous flaw in reports of ecological apocalypse is lack of information.
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The translation of the Greek word apocalypse has produced the better known English equivalent - "revelation.
The Real Truth
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Madonna penning a kids' book may be seen by some as one of the signs that the pale horsemen of the apocalypse will be saddling up any day now.
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Many fundamentalists look for signs of the times that might indicate the actual commencement of the Apocalypse.
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This isn't the apocalypse, though, it's comedy, and the outbreak is averted by cool temps and a massive roofie from the authorities (who show up six hours later on the dot).
Matt's TV Week in Review
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Clothing and ornamentation serve an important function in the Apocalypse.
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My sleep is disturbed by visions of the apocalypse, with a kind of ridiculousness that wakes me.
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The newspapers are full of information about the apocalypse - greenhouse gasses will ignite massive fires, melt the ice caps, and submerge half the planet.
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While monsters, anti-Christs, and the Virgin herself appeared in the countryside, apocalypses were prophesied in capitals.
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The convergence of the irreverent prince of potty humor and the cringe-worthy captain of schlock must be one of the signs of the impending Apocalypse.
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The struggle against pollution, the battle for the earth, averting a self-inflicted apocalypse.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Also getting more done on antiquing for the apocalypse.
WIPs Wednesday and Stories that will Blow Your Mind
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Unless you count the first two signs of The Apocalypse that suddenly appeared during the course of the day.
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The book offers a vision of the future in which there is a great nuclear apocalypse.
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Millenarian movements require a charismatic leader to bind together disparate, unconnected people, and, by convincing them of the imminence of the Apocalypse, turn them into a revolutionary force.
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Marghanita Laski, better known as a journalist and non-genre writer, but also author of a post-apocalypse play, The Offshore Island, which was broadcast in 1959.
British women writers of TV sf before 1970
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The Four Horse Men of the Apocalypse apparently felt it inappropriate to arrive as a messenger of divine retribution.
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Somewhere out in eternity lie apocalypse and oblivion.
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It is very difficult to sum up in a few phrases the kind of apocalypses that this country is facing.
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That was the food supply on which we were going to subsist after the apocalypse.
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And the heavy-metal lyrics and art exhibits already symbolizing the millennium with images of imminent apocalypse are more gloomy than rational.
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One firefighter described the scene as ‘the apocalypse, we couldn't see anything or anyone, and then we began to find the bodies scattered around the area, completely carbonised.
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I don't know if yesterday's Supreme Court ruling is really going to lead to the apocalypse predicted by so many, or if the corporate influence on American politics is already at its absolute maximum and this is merely going to alter the number of tools in the fat cats 'political influence toolkit … But I find myself having the same naive reaction to the notion of "corporate personhood" that I've always had when it's come up: If corporations are persons in the eyes of the law, why has no one pursued the argument that we can do to corporations what we routinely do to persons, namely imprison and execute them?
NYT > Opinion
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The visions of the Apocalypse, the seals, trumpets, and vials, &c., are grouped in sevens, and naturally begin on the first day of the seven, the birthday of the Church, whose future they set forth [Wordsworth]. great voice -- summoning solemn attention; Greek order, "I heard a voice behind me great (loud) as (that) of a trumpet.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Behind them resplendent is the Lamb of the Apocalypse.
10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002
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These Lutherans were pietist and puritanical, expecting the imminent apocalypse.
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Only the crazy jingoes believe that their Apocalypse is an idea whose time has come.
Think Progress » Bush Administration Developing Plans To Keep 50,000 U.S. Troops In Iraq For Decades
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This was the state of the _Apocalypse_, till the thousand years being misunderstood, brought a prejudice against it: and _Dionysius_ of _Alexandria_, noting how it abounded with barbarisms, that is with
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
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I've also read a lot of Supernatural community writing this year, and deeply appreciate the legions of writers out there weaving tales of the apocalypse, rewriting canon in inventive ways, and spinning the characters into hilarious, tragic, and complex alternate universes (sometimes all three at once).
December 2009
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Later, it describes the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse and the last flight of death over the scorched land.
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I think the apocalypse is a burden that the cultures of religion, nuclear war and physics (the Big Bang implies an ending, and we find it hard to think about what may be the case, no start and no end) all unconsciously participated in creating.
A Climate of Opinion
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It's the sort of extreme pronouncement one has come to expect from Chávez, known for nicknaming the stations ‘the four horsemen of the apocalypse.’
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People's worlds end all the time; lots of people have personal apocalypses on a daily basis.
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It was a relict of the times before the First Apocalypse, the unknown era.
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And for those who prefer their apocalypses to be slightly less cannibalistic, there is also cricket spaghetti.
Times, Sunday Times
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How could the legal owners of this stuff perceive file sharing as anything other than an apocalypse for their business?
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However, for those in the higher echelons of government it was a period of seemingly near apocalypse.
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At his feet swept the broad and noble river, reflecting on its surface the snowy masses of "thunderhead" clouds, around which the lightning still played, and which, transfigured and glorified in the light of the setting sun, seemed to the poetic imagination of the young man like the City of God descending out of heaven, with its streets of gold and foundations of precious stones, while the rainbow that spanned the heavens seemed like the rainbow of the Apocalypse round about the throne of God.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
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More pertinently, the pair have a way of pinpointing, with unerring accuracy, the simple poignant moments in life: personal and global apocalypses are all part of the parcel.
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This isn't the apocalypse, though, it's comedy, and the outbreak is averted by cool temps and a massive roofie from the authorities (who show up six hours later on the dot).
Matt's TV Week in Review
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LOS ANGELES—After weeks of warnings and much talk of a motor-driven apocalypse in advance of the closure of a 10-mile stretch of the 405 Freeway, residents here largely stayed off the road.
L.A.'s 'Carmaggedon' Comes and Goes Without a Fuss
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Moreover, among The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, The First Book of Enoch is one of the earliest sources of the prediction of an apocalypse.
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)
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But Mr. Hickenlooper was perhaps best known as a documentarian whose 1991 film, "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," gave viewers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of director Francis Ford Coppola as he struggled with huge cost overruns and his own self-doubt to make the war epic "Apocalypse Now.
George Hickenlooper dies: Emmy-winning director was 47
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The word "apocalypse" comes from the Greek word for "to uncover" or "reveal," and Conor Horgan's One Hundred Mornings, in some respects, simply lifts the lid off our petroleum-based, strung-out-on-technology culture to show us what's left when we strip away the lights and the cars and the iGadgets.
Blogging.la
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The Acts of the Apostles (excepting xxiv, 16-xxvi, 31), and a number of verses lacunous or entirely missing [Or. 7594]; The Apocalypse of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]
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In his greed for world domination he has initiated the very apocalypse he sought to avoid.
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The batty old lady had made the mistake of incurring the wrath of the Riders of the Apocalypse, and she paid for that within the second.
