(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.
Revelation
Definition:
(n.) The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
(n.) That which is revealed.
(n.) The act of revealing divine truth.
(n.) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.
(n.) Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
(2) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
(3) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
(4) Gilmore added that the revelations couldcompromise Irish attempts to win further debt relief from the European Union.
(5) Hopefully the revelations here help those inside and outside the party to clear the air and decide their own next move.
(6) It was intended, however, as a response to more radical reforms proposed by congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and is likely to have relatively limited impact on the NSA's ability to collect data on US citizens through incidental means, the so-called backdoor provisions , which was seen as a bigger threat as Snowden's revelations continued.
(7) • The Spanish government has warned the US that revelations of widespread spying by the National Security Agency could, if confirmed, “ lead to a breakdown in the traditional trust ” between the two countries.
(8) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(9) Nike's latest CSR report is a revelation for the amount of information they give."
(10) Sir Martin Sorrell , the chief executive of WPP, has said businesses continue to underestimate the importance the Edward Snowden's NSA electronic surveillance revelations have had on consumer attitudes to privacy and security.
(11) The revelation of the increase comes after the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and a host of senior doctors warned Theresa May in a letter that hospitals are “paralysed by spiralling demand” and the NHS “will fail” without an emergency cash injection.
(12) Snowden’s revelations have again framed the debate over the balance between our privacy rights and our need for security.
(13) Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott said on Twitter that he will write to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt demanding that he block News Corp's bid to take full control of pay-TV company BSkyB following the revelations about Dowler.
(14) The fact that Fraser suggested Pinter write one of the pivotal scenes, in which Emma challenges Jerry to leave his wife, was a revelation, he says.
(15) What did us in here, what worked against us was this shocking revelation,” Clapper said .
(16) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
(17) Policy change after Snowden leaks EFF also found that the Snowden revelations about government surveillance of data have prompted technology companies to increase their protection of user data.
(18) If the president and Congress would simply obey the fourth amendment, this new shocking revelation that the government is now spying on citizens' phone data en masse would never have happened.
(19) A spokeswoman for the Guardian said the revelation of the US-UK correspondence on the destruction was disappointing.
(20) Updated at 8.30pm GMT 8.18pm GMT Clapper says NSA has spent thousands of man-hours cleaning up after the Snowden revelations , which he calls "a major distraction."