What's the difference between doomsday and ragnarok?

Doomsday


Definition:

  • (n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
  • (n.) The day of the final judgment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is the doomsday scenario, but according to a leaked report of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation – a team of university professors, lawyers and journalists who spent six months investigating Japan's response to the triple meltdown at the plant – it could all too easily have happened.
  • (2) There are two tantalising psychological issues surrounding the predictions made by doomsday cults.
  • (3) The doomsday scenario privately discussed at both party conferences so far was the grudging election of a largest party of whichever flavour, but without the majority or mandate to fight its way out of a paper bag.
  • (4) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
  • (5) Hillary’s health hoax Most of the recent flurry stems directly from InfoWars, a conspiracy-fueled political site run by shock jock Alex Jones that funds itself partly through the sale of supplies necessary for doomsday prepping such as bulk vitamins and a year’s worth of long-life food.
  • (6) Thus, unlike you, we are not inclined to take the doomsday scenarios you have painted too seriously.
  • (7) The doomsday sort of threats of Mr Robb don’t help anything.” He said critics of the agreement “have got a point” about maintaining and protecting labour standards.
  • (8) The battle for eastern Aleppo in maps: how rebel territory is shrinking Read more The bombardment of rebel areas of the city continued nonstop on Monday during the day in what residents called a “doomsday” scenario.
  • (9) Under the title "Scaring children" he writes: The group most vulnerable to doomsday claims is children.
  • (10) Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise.
  • (11) • Alok Jha is a Guardian science correspondent and author of The Doomsday Handbook: 50 Ways to the End of the World (Quercus, £9.99) and How To Live Forever And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses for Science (Quercus, £9.99)
  • (12) Psychologist Leon Festinger coined the term in 1956, after studying how members of a doomsday cult dealt with the aftermath of an apocalypse that did not come.
  • (13) The risk is that satisfying the capricious whims of the financial markets leads to policy error and the doomsday scenario.
  • (14) AI doomsday scenarios belong more in the realm of science fiction than science fact.
  • (15) With almost half an hour played there was a reminder of the doomsday scenario for the home side of a Shakhter away goal when Aldin Dzidic headed over Forster's bar in a rare attack.
  • (16) For doomsday believers, the toughest of times is that moment of anticlimax, when the world keeps turning and the clock ticks on.
  • (17) The Doomsday Clock has not been dismantled after the cold war: but the advance towards catastrophe need not be inexorable.
  • (18) Ahead of Sunday's premiere of The Age of Stupid , an environmental doomsday docudrama, he compared those who do not accept that human-induced global warming is occurring with Holocaust deniers, and said the evidence for global change is now beyond doubt.
  • (19) Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) Remember, you have just a few hours left to get your recalcitrant doomsday friends to sign over all their assets to you.
  • (20) But in the daily Doomsday Clock countdown of Donald Trump’s presidency we at least see the foot-soldiers of the American government machine hurling themselves bodily into its gears, unconcerned for their own careers.

Ragnarok


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His UNPERU colleagues strove to decode this hydrocarbon Ragnarok.
  • (2) "The image in Ragnarok that most moved me as a child was the ship of the dead that comes up to the last battle.
  • (3) Byatt was speaking at the launch of her new book, a retelling of the Norse Ragnarok myth, in which, after a succession of natural disasters, the world ends: a story she has found compelling since her childhood during the war.
  • (4) The other films are Captain America 3: Civil War and Doctor Strange (both 2016), Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Black Panther (both 2017), Thor: Ragnarok and Inhumans (2018) and two Avengers films in 2018 and 2019, Infinity War parts one and two.
  • (5) She added: "We are into the world of Ragnarok, where whatever we do we cannot stop the doom that is coming.