(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.
Apocryphal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the Apocrypha.
(a.) Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's said that she and her ladies appeared on the battlements, dusting the places where the enemies' stones had fallen – though that particular story may be as apocryphal as the events in this film.
(2) The story, he later admitted to Lord Justice Leveson, was apocryphal.
(3) One apocryphal story about The Hangover was that it was based on the stag night of Choke producer Tripp Vinson , who supposedly went awol from his own party.
(4) There's a story, possibly apocryphal, about Bennett in which he says: "It's funny that people think I'm so nice, I'm actually a bit of a cunt."
(5) Released in 1997, it’s also apocryphally known as the most returned video game of all time; players were reportedly lured in by the visuals then repelled by the mysteries of the Japanese role-playing genre.
(6) The following is possibly apocryphal, but when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
(7) There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that the imposition of the first Plantagenet prince of Wales was a trick.
(8) You know how many times I’d get a call from girlfriends saying, ‘I just got kicked out of a camp, come pick me up?’” In the US press, the gender imbalance in Williston initially attracted as much attention as the population boom, with apocryphal tales of strippers earning $2,500 a night in tips (though the $500 per night reputed to be more accurate is nothing to sniff at).
(9) To his fans, though, he's rap's Wolf Of Wall Street, someone who weaves apocryphal tales of an ostentatious lifestyle and encourages them to go and get it for themselves.
(10) Just like the apocryphal shrinking Pizza Express pizza, British houses have been getting smaller.
(11) Everyone has at least one ridiculous story and it is impossible to tell which are true and which apocryphal.
(12) Using biblical and biblical-apocryphal sources, the characteristics of Jewish-Christian patriarchism are shown which as a system, especially embodied by elderly men, was very efficient up to the beginning of the 19th century.
(13) This is the first, and probably the most popular, of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories, a short, dark and compelling novel set in what he called “my apocryphal county”, a fictional rendering of Lafayette County in his native Mississippi.
(14) John Oliver continued his criticism of president Trump, focusing on his domination of the news cycle by making apocryphal statements , saying: “You can’t avoid talking about him.” “Trump dominates the news cycle like a fart dominates the interior of a Volkswagen Beetle,” he said at the start of his Sunday night show.
(15) Consider some of the ego-centric stories – most infamously, the pants-down motivational speech in the Bayern dressing-room, which feels apocryphal but is true – and the line appears blurred, to say the least.
(16) There is, of course, the famous and possibly apocryphal line , attributed to Ford while shooting the original films and aimed at Lucas: "George, you can type this shit, but you sure can't say it."
(17) They are victims of circumstances and forces much more powerful, immoral and brutal than the apocryphal “bad man with a gun” who can be stopped by a “good man” with the same.
(18) However, this remark would appear to be apocryphal.
(19) The tale may be apocryphal, but when the wily French statesman Talleyrand died in 1838, the no less wily Austrian chancellor Metternich’s response is said to have been : “I wonder what he meant by that?” These days it is getting to be a bit like this with George Osborne .
(20) This reflects the narrative of most actual papal elections – these stories tend to be a serious exploration of what is supposed to be a famously apocryphal question: is the pope a Catholic?