(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.
Doomsayer
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 6.15pm BST Obama says the GOP doomsaying has proven hollow: Most Republicans have made a whole bunch of predictions that haven't come true.
(2) The drone from traffic on the parallel Quai des Celestins, higher up the river bank, suggests traffic there is moving along at a respectable pace – confounding those doomsayers who suggested the controversial scheme to pedestrianise two miles of city centre highway would bring neighbouring roads to a standstill.
(3) The unions came to Westminster today, like doomsayers waiting for the rest of the country to catch up.
(4) Draghi ridiculed the doomsayers predicting that hyperinflation would eventually result from QE, saying that hawks had repeatedly warned about inflation taking off each time the ECB had cut interest rates – yet inflation remained very low.
(5) Nor is it disintegrating, as the doomsayers love to repeat.
(6) Ferrari was hopeful about the potential to save the Great Barrier Reef, she said, despite the doomsaying about its prospects.
(7) After six years as editor of the red-top she delivered a passionate defence of tabloids while railing against industry doomsayers at the Cudlipp Lecture at the London College of Communication.
(8) Miliband will say that their success has proved how "doomsayers", from Oswald Moseley to the BNP, have completely misjudged Britain.
(9) He will say: "We've had our fair share of doomsayers in Britain over the years, from Oswald Moseley in the 1930s, to Enoch Powell in the 1960s, to Nick Griffin today, who said it wasn't possible for us to get along.
(10) Should any of this doomsaying concern us, particularly in a credit-crunched world?
(11) Yet there are still reasons to hope that 2017, like 2016, will not turn out as bad as the doomsayers predict.
(12) Focus DIY gave doomsayers more reason to be gloomy after it embarked on a vital restructuring to stave off its collapse.
(13) Defying all the doomsayers who said a vote to leave could prompt a recession, consumers carried on spending and businesses continued to expand .
(14) Nigeria has proved the doomsayers wrong before, but the odds are worsening.
(15) Right-wing conservatives like Jacob Rees-Mogg joined in, saying that because of the obsession of "the doomsayers of the quasi-religious Green movement" poor people "may die because they can't afford fuel".
(16) Those glum doomsayers, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu , defence chief Ehud Barak, and president Shimon Peres , are frantically ringing alarm bells like a trio of demented churchwardens.
(17) But, against the doomsayers, an almost supernatural peace and good will reigned.
(18) The long-awaited election in the continent’s biggest democracy, with 60 million potential voters, did not descend into the chaos or violence that the doomsayers had predicted, but it was hardly plain sailing.
(19) He said industry doomsayers were "misguided cynics".
(20) Edwards – a high profile City strategist renowned as a market doomsayer – said the scheme was artificially propping up the market and preventing prices correcting to affordable levels.