(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.
Armageddon
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Eitan was born Rafael Kaminsky in the moshav of Tel Adashim near Nazareth, straddling the Jezreel Valley across from Megiddo, better known as Armageddon.
(2) But some say Armageddon will draw near around say, December 20, as the deadline draws closer and Congress still has nothing to show for its efforts.
(3) Collective jitters produced by the end of the Mayan calendar have been good business for the suppliers of candles, matches, salt and torches in some parts of Russia, even though, as one psychiatrist noted, what happens every day can be a lot scarier than Armageddon.
(4) He had predicted an "Armageddon-like scenario" if the petition were rejected.
(5) Notwithstanding the voices of a few who are willing to play with Armageddon, responsible leaders in Washington are not."
(6) Bugarach, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, became known as the "Village of the End of the World" following two years of intense media focus since the local mayor raised concerns about online rumours that the Mayans had predicted it was the only place that would be spared Armageddon.
(7) In government, but facing electoral Armageddon, the Liberal Democrats had to mark themselves out as different during the 2014 party conference season.
(8) That Armageddon is a psychological effect that will create a financial one.
(9) With environmental Armageddon back on the agenda once again now, might there be a viable future for Arcosanti and Soleri's principles of arcology after all?
(10) The idea that Britain is made one jot safer by a £100bn Armageddon weapon floating in the Atlantic is absurd.
(11) Lost in all of the cyber-Armageddon rhetoric is Sony’s own negligent security practices, which is maybe where some of Hollywood’s own overwrought ire should be pointed, rather than blaming journalists for reporting.
(12) A local newspaper picked it up and the story quickly became a media phenomenon, an irresistible yet totally preposterous rural armageddon saga, whereby UFOs descending from a landing pad on the local mountaintop would save people from the end of the world.
(13) Next chief executive Simon Wolfson said the UK was suffering "a recession, not Armageddon".
(14) The only reason last year's financial mega-meltdown is now producing protracted economic misery, as opposed to economic Armageddon, is because the authorities acted as they did.
(15) The countdown to possible economic Armageddon was infused with yet more tension as eurozone officials disagreed over the degree to which progress had been made.
(16) But such is the global interest, the French police have closed off access to the mountain peak in the village to keep out the expected influx of international journalists, even if the feared mass arrival of hippies, new agers and Armageddon groupies has failed to materialise.
(17) You may have other candidates for the post-Armageddon comfort food repository and I'd love to know what they are, but I think I'm on the right track.
(18) But while the Christians are still pestering God, the end-of-daysers awaiting Armageddon, and the Aryan brothers proving the least convincing imaginable argument for the superiority of their race, things have changed quite drastically in porn, which has been even more vulnerable than cinema, TV or music to the predations of the internet.
(19) The fact that Aids, predicted to slash by a third Africa’s population, has simply not done so, will no more dent the appeal of Armageddon than will the wilder claims of climate changers.
(20) Talk about “ultimate deterrents” might as well apply to any Armageddon weapon, bacteriological or chemical.