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How To Use apocalyptic In A Sentence

• Warner Brothers/Everett Collection 'The Town' Or perhaps, in an effort to capture the apocalyptic stakes said to be at issue, the Congressmen might have screened a bit of Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove," who as the pilot of a B-52 steels his crew to drop an H-bomb: "Heck," he says, "I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat. Searching for Cinematic Inspiration
• But the lack of substance ultimately adds to the mood: flamboyant unconcern underlined by apocalyptic decadence.
• The term apocalyptic does come to mind, and that really isn't an overstatement. CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2005
• His mood was darkly apocalyptic, seeing everything in life-and-death terms.
• The only other surviving writings that are exclusively apocalyptic in style come from outside our biblical canon and are usually unfamiliar to anyone but scholars in the field.
• Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
• Yet the idea of a post-apocalyptic city captivates the contemporary mind and its images continue to proliferate.
• In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
• Again, the only real cure to this neurosis, which is apparently taking on apocalyptic proportions, would be for him to feel good about himself.
• The author does not neglect the more exotic apocalyptic and millenarian episodes.