(n.) The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.
(n.) Anything viewed as a revelation; a disclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trump’s tragic Nam story is captured in the film Apocalypse Ow.” On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the comic examined the timing of Trump’s Nordstrom tweet, noting that it came just 21 minutes after he was supposed to be in his daily intelligence briefing.
(2) The business described it in a since-deleted Facebook post as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport”.
(3) In 1850 you could see Benjamin West’s ever popular vision of the apocalypse, Death on a Pale Horse , riding melodramatically back into view on Broadway for the fourth time in as many years; and a gallery of Rembrandts at Niblo’s theatre, where Charles Blondin once walked a tightrope.
(4) "At first I thought we could take the six characters and transpose them to a time in the future after an imaginary climate apocalypse.
(5) The Washington DC transportation department put out a tweet saying that the coming apocalypse would have an impact on road maintenance: "Sorry, we will no longer be able to fill your potholes after Saturday."
(6) Peta Credlin and the horsepersons of the apocalypse | First Dog on the Moon Read more “If I wasn’t strong, determined, controlling and got them into government from opposition, then I would be weak and not up to it and should have to go and could be replaced.
(7) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
(8) Technology – along with turbo-capitalism – seems to me to be hastening the cultural and environmental apocalypse.
(9) · He edited American Graffiti, The Conversation, The Godfather parts I to III, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley and many more.
(10) "It's not even lack of progress," she says in her low, ironic drawl, "it's a downward slide towards the apocalypse.
(11) I’ve often wondered how the media would respond when eco-apocalypse struck.
(12) Even Clinton once remarked that she was the only thing standing between America and an “apocalypse”.
(13) • In the past week, Chinese authorities arrested around 1,000 members of a group called the Church of the Almighty God for spreading rumours about the apocalypse.
(14) The Crystal World is surely Ballard's most gorgeous calamity: apocalypse not as abolition but as transfiguration.
(15) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(16) Economic meltdown and environmental apocalypse are back in our minds.
(17) And no internet, no phones, no texting, no TV – it’s the cupcake generation’s apocalypse, with no prizes just for showing up.
(18) The good news is that scientists think this apocalypse is eminently avoidable with enough energy and investment.
(19) Paramount has reportedly changed a scene in World War Z during which characters discuss the source of the outbreak that caused the zombie apocalypse, and point to China.
(20) Like al-Qaida, he believes in acts of spectacular violence as a first step to changing the world, seeks to purge his own people of those deemed weak in the face of the enemy, yearns for a pure, past golden age that never existed, and dreams of apocalypse.
Apocalyptic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Apocalyptical
(n.) Alt. of Apocalyptist
Example Sentences:
(1) Each of them is an apocalyptic retread of Lord Of The Flies, but with all hot GQ-model Ralphs and no myopic Piggys.
(2) His wink-wink, nod-nod racist slogan, “Make America great again,” together with his apocalyptic dirge of a convention, left exposed and unguarded a flank that is usually the Republicans’ specialty.
(3) The overuse of antibiotics is a hugely serious problem, these days described by public health experts in apocalyptic terms.
(4) Sapp flirts with apocalyptic rhetoric on the way to the conclusion that Trump recognizes no power higher than his own ego.
(5) Each month since Jim Murphy became leader of the party in Scotland has brought a clutch of opinion polls indicating that Labour will suffer an apocalyptic event on 7 May.
(6) These include emphasis on the perceived threat of racial or cultural extinction, belief in an impending and apocalyptic conflict (a "race war" or "clash of civilisations"), belief that urgent, radical action is required and that followers have a moral obligation.
(7) I don’t think that the consequences of no deal are by any means as apocalyptic as some people like to pretend, and actually what we have seen in the budget from Philip Hammond last week are preparations for Britain over the next few years,” he said.
(8) Dave wanted to share his dark and disturbing apocalyptic visions of a post-election multiverse in which Miliband was in two places at once.
(9) The apocalyptics – including grandstanding politicos like New York State senator Steve Israel, who's already introduced legislation aimed at banning 3D printed guns – greet this news with hysterics: the age of the undetectable plastic gun to be upon us, and Something Must Be Done.
(10) That and the fact this tournament defied all the apocalyptic predictions by actually being pretty good on and off the pitch lifted spirits at the last minute.
(11) The UK authorities knew it would be one of the busiest and hottest weekends of the year It appears to have been this conjunction of forces that created the apocalyptic jams this past weekend.
(12) The Met Office Hadley Centre, one of the most prestigious research facilities in the world, says recent "apocalyptic predictions" about Arctic ice melt and soaring temperatures are as bad as claims that global warming does not exist.
(13) One politician, who declined to talk on the record, spelled out an apocalyptic vision: “If Nissan is in the state of withdrawal, how many people are going to sign up to be next to a big, empty factory where Nissan once stood?
(14) The coal lobby – which had more apocalyptic economic forecasts – said the rules would have no effect on climate change.
(15) To my mind, Assad is the priority Everything convinces them that they are on the right path and, specifically, that there is a kind of apocalyptic process under way that will lead to a confrontation between an army of Muslims from all over the world and others, the crusaders, the Romans.
(16) He then settled into directing a sequence of moderately entertaining, star-powered thrillers such as Crimson Tide (1995), The Fan (1996) and Enemy of the State (1998), each with apocalyptic tones and convincing performances (from Denzel Washington, Robert De Niro and Will Smith respectively).
(17) For nearly a decade, the National Rifle Association has spurred its members with apocalyptic warnings that the Democratic president wanted to confiscate Americans’ guns.
(18) Inside Syria, humanitarian organisations received even less.” A UN insider described the pressure on the humanitarian system to meet the needs of 78 million people as “apocalyptic” with displacement of people the highest since the second world war and multiple crises being the “new norm”.
(19) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
(20) 2.32pm GMT Blog handover I'm handing over the apocalyptic torch to my colleague Amanda Holpuch in the US.