(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.
Apocalyptically
Definition:
(adv.) By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.
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.