Definition of apocalyptic in English:

apocalyptic

adjective əpɒkəˈlɪptɪkəˌpɑkəˈlɪptɪk

1Describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.
描述（或预示）世界末日的
the apocalyptic visions of ecologists
生态学家所描述的世界末日景象。
Example sentencesExamples
- The rise of environmental politics since the late 1960s directly stimulated historical scholarship, and gave the new environmental history an occasionally apocalyptic and moralistic tone.
- Wasn't this apocalyptic comment portentous with all the flooding and massive tidal waves around Thailand and the Indian Ocean?
- Nor is he given to apocalyptic prophecies.
- Indeed, the current American spate of interest in apocalyptic prophecy stems precisely from attempts to draw meaning from complex and difficult imagery.
- But as apocalyptic literature has come in for criticism, so has utopian-by anti-utopians, often satirists.
- The book's second half focuses on the ethics of prophetic and apocalyptic literature.
- It was written during the terrifying times of the Cuban missile crisis, but it depicts apocalyptic visions rather than specific details.
- Even for those who did not accept these apocalyptic scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world.
- His apocalyptic vision looks more like prophecy than fiction.
- Rejecting it would mean moving toward strike action, which union leaders are describing in apocalyptic tones.
- Rather than see social events as holding spiritual significance in a prophetic way, they dismissed literal interpretations of apocalyptic prophecies.
- Furthermore, news channels would either interview astrologers or fortune tellers and ask them to give apocalyptic and catastrophic predictions that would frighten people.
- Despairing, however, that he would only be remembered as a political satirist and not a genuine artist in his own right, he changed his subject matter to romantic landscapes or apocalyptic visions of the future.
- It also has an apocalyptic vision of the future.
- His writing is apocalyptic in feel, describing a gritty futuristic world in which dream meets reality.
- I'm not sure the apocalyptic vision is helpful.
- His work was seminal for understanding the role and importance of apocalyptic literature and its interpretations in the lives of early seventeenth-century Puritans.
- Yet despite my dismissive attitude towards apocalyptic theories and prophesies, last year's Y2K version did somewhat discomfort me.
- Climate change is the environmental fear that provokes the greatest degree of apocalyptic prophesy.
- It was composed and published in a crucial period of European apocalyptic anxiety and millennial anticipation.
Synonyms
prophetic, predictive, visionary
1. 1.1 Momentous or catastrophic.
  the struggle between the two countries is assuming apocalyptic proportions
  两国间的争斗达到了灾难性的程度。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Such an apocalyptic development would have consequences that, although largely unpredictable in their specifics, would be grave for the region and for the international system as a whole.
  Galactica makes multiple references to the day in the form of apocalyptic destruction, burnt fire-fighters and the grotesque immediacy of bodies tumbling into space.
  How can people like Tony Blair be blind to this massive risk of apocalyptic destruction and loss of freedom?
  Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
  The annihilation of Canada's natural resources can best be described as apocalyptic.
  If the war happens then the consequences will be more than dire, they will be apocalyptic.
  These were films made in the aftermath of the apocalyptic experiences of World War I which had a decisive effect on a new generation of artists in Germany.
  Do you not realise the serious catastrophic, apocalyptic implications if he is correct?
  This report of the UK media awards describes a an apocalyptic scene, as scribes, put beyond use with alcohol, heckle and taunt their peers; standing on stools, booing the MC off the stage.
  Its influences have pervaded the whole economy and the whole financial system, and its bursting may have apocalyptic consequences.
  Such stylistic whimsy hardly seems appropriate to the solemn themes of apocalyptic war and nuclear disaster which consequently lose much of their weight and urgency.
  The army is ferrying in troops, but they are facing apocalyptic destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
  The aim is to reach back into history to grab on to things because this apocalyptic event has happened.
  We have had a storm of apocalyptic proportions this morning, with gale force winds and torrential rain for hours.
  Again, the only real cure to this neurosis, which is apparently taking on apocalyptic proportions, would be for him to feel good about himself.
  All Western democracies are now acutely aware of the apocalyptic consequences of a well-orchestrated attack on high-profile facilities.
  The army is ferrying in troops, but they're facing apocalyptic destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
  Maritain saw World War II as nothing less than an apocalyptic passage through unprecedented destruction.
  Inside the ring, he is a gladiator of apocalyptic proportions.
  Those who prophesied apocalyptic social change faced great risks.
  Synonyms
  important, significant, epoch-making, historic, headline, fateful, portentous, critical, crucial, vital, life-and-death, decisive, pivotal, serious, grave, weighty, consequential, big, great, far-reaching, life-changing, of importance, of moment, of significance, of consequence
2. 1.2 Of or resembling the biblical Apocalypse.
  （与）《圣经·启示录》（有关）的；像《圣经·启示录》中描述的
  apocalyptic imagery
  像《圣经·启示录》中描述的世界末日的景象。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The anthemic title track was emblematic of its overall invention, set against an apocalyptic backdrop; ice ages, zombies of death, nuclear errors.
  I love the way that, in the apocalyptic destruction of Genesis, Nimoy sidesteps the action for the briefest second to show us the beauty of the last sunset on the dying world.
  The other times I see him focusing on his artwork while attending the San Francisco Academy of Art and creating his war-torn, apocalyptic imagery that needs few words to explain.
  This is the great long-awaited apocalyptic moment.
  It might also be seen as a prologue to the twentieth century's proliferation of apocalyptic literary imagery.
  For as long as organizations buy into, and feed, apocalyptic imagery that issues from Washington, other Christian points of view demand a hearing.
  This might well be related to the imagery of God depicted in apocalyptic accounts.
  As a sort of exclamation point, Jesus then uses the apocalyptic imagery we have today.
  The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an apocalyptic Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist.
  Again, the gospel's apocalyptic imagery denotes the end of an age and calls the people to a shared, wide-awake clarity of purpose.
  The cover picture shows the apocalyptic moment when Albion rises from his rock and sees the vision of the land as Jerusalem, having subdued and reunited the Four Zoas.
  Our analysis of the larger culture was characterized by the kind of apocalyptic imagery made popular by the nineteenth-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
  There is nothing, in short, inherently Jewish or Christian or Muslim about apocalyptic imagery.
  He suspects this support is based on a reading of Christian prophecy that requires an apocalyptic war in the Middle East as the precondition for Christ's return.
  The scribal community similarly took the destruction of Jerusalem and fit it into the apocalyptic narrative of the destruction and return of once and future cities.

Derivatives

apocalyptically

adverbəˌpɒkəˈlɪptɪkliəˌpɑkəˈlɪptɪk(ə)li

We gazed across the loch at Ben Lomond, which for once, in this apocalyptically bad summer, was gloriously free from cloud and touched lightly by skinny bands of sunlight.
Example sentencesExamples
- But the poet's vision darkens apocalyptically in The Lice, which seems written under the shadow of planetary extinction.
- He talked angrily - almost apocalyptically - about the threats facing developing countries.
- The BBC radio news yesterday evening was apocalyptically depressing.
- It reduced scores of buildings to dust, ignited fires that raged apocalyptically for four days, and cut San Francisco off from all outside communication.

Origin

Early 17th century (as a noun denoting the writer of the Apocalypse, St John): from Greek apokaluptikos, from apokaluptein 'uncover' (see apocalypse).

Rhymes

cryptic, diptych, elliptic, glyptic, styptic, triptych

Definition of apocalyptic in US English:

apocalyptic

adjectiveəˌpäkəˈliptikəˌpɑkəˈlɪptɪk

1Describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.
描述（或预示）世界末日的
the apocalyptic visions of ecologists
生态学家所描述的世界末日景象。
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet despite my dismissive attitude towards apocalyptic theories and prophesies, last year's Y2K version did somewhat discomfort me.
- It was written during the terrifying times of the Cuban missile crisis, but it depicts apocalyptic visions rather than specific details.
- Rather than see social events as holding spiritual significance in a prophetic way, they dismissed literal interpretations of apocalyptic prophecies.
- His work was seminal for understanding the role and importance of apocalyptic literature and its interpretations in the lives of early seventeenth-century Puritans.
- The rise of environmental politics since the late 1960s directly stimulated historical scholarship, and gave the new environmental history an occasionally apocalyptic and moralistic tone.
- Wasn't this apocalyptic comment portentous with all the flooding and massive tidal waves around Thailand and the Indian Ocean?
- Climate change is the environmental fear that provokes the greatest degree of apocalyptic prophesy.
- His apocalyptic vision looks more like prophecy than fiction.
- The book's second half focuses on the ethics of prophetic and apocalyptic literature.
- Indeed, the current American spate of interest in apocalyptic prophecy stems precisely from attempts to draw meaning from complex and difficult imagery.
- His writing is apocalyptic in feel, describing a gritty futuristic world in which dream meets reality.
- It was composed and published in a crucial period of European apocalyptic anxiety and millennial anticipation.
- Even for those who did not accept these apocalyptic scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world.
- Despairing, however, that he would only be remembered as a political satirist and not a genuine artist in his own right, he changed his subject matter to romantic landscapes or apocalyptic visions of the future.
- Nor is he given to apocalyptic prophecies.
- Rejecting it would mean moving toward strike action, which union leaders are describing in apocalyptic tones.
- I'm not sure the apocalyptic vision is helpful.
- But as apocalyptic literature has come in for criticism, so has utopian-by anti-utopians, often satirists.
- Furthermore, news channels would either interview astrologers or fortune tellers and ask them to give apocalyptic and catastrophic predictions that would frighten people.
- It also has an apocalyptic vision of the future.
Synonyms
prophetic, predictive, visionary
1. 1.1 Resembling the end of the world; momentous or catastrophic.
  像是世界末日的；重大的；严重的；灾难性的
  the struggle between the two countries is assuming apocalyptic proportions
  两国间的争斗达到了灾难性的程度。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Such stylistic whimsy hardly seems appropriate to the solemn themes of apocalyptic war and nuclear disaster which consequently lose much of their weight and urgency.
  Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
  Its influences have pervaded the whole economy and the whole financial system, and its bursting may have apocalyptic consequences.
  Inside the ring, he is a gladiator of apocalyptic proportions.
  If the war happens then the consequences will be more than dire, they will be apocalyptic.
  These were films made in the aftermath of the apocalyptic experiences of World War I which had a decisive effect on a new generation of artists in Germany.
  Those who prophesied apocalyptic social change faced great risks.
  Galactica makes multiple references to the day in the form of apocalyptic destruction, burnt fire-fighters and the grotesque immediacy of bodies tumbling into space.
  How can people like Tony Blair be blind to this massive risk of apocalyptic destruction and loss of freedom?
  The army is ferrying in troops, but they are facing apocalyptic destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
  Such an apocalyptic development would have consequences that, although largely unpredictable in their specifics, would be grave for the region and for the international system as a whole.
  The annihilation of Canada's natural resources can best be described as apocalyptic.
  This report of the UK media awards describes a an apocalyptic scene, as scribes, put beyond use with alcohol, heckle and taunt their peers; standing on stools, booing the MC off the stage.
  All Western democracies are now acutely aware of the apocalyptic consequences of a well-orchestrated attack on high-profile facilities.
  The army is ferrying in troops, but they're facing apocalyptic destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground.
  The aim is to reach back into history to grab on to things because this apocalyptic event has happened.
  Do you not realise the serious catastrophic, apocalyptic implications if he is correct?
  Again, the only real cure to this neurosis, which is apparently taking on apocalyptic proportions, would be for him to feel good about himself.
  Maritain saw World War II as nothing less than an apocalyptic passage through unprecedented destruction.
  We have had a storm of apocalyptic proportions this morning, with gale force winds and torrential rain for hours.
  Synonyms
  important, significant, epoch-making, historic, headline, fateful, portentous, critical, crucial, vital, life-and-death, decisive, pivotal, serious, grave, weighty, consequential, big, great, far-reaching, life-changing, of importance, of moment, of significance, of consequence
2. 1.2 Of or resembling the biblical Apocalypse.
  （与）《圣经·启示录》（有关）的；像《圣经·启示录》中描述的
  apocalyptic imagery
  像《圣经·启示录》中描述的世界末日的景象。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an apocalyptic Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist.
  As a sort of exclamation point, Jesus then uses the apocalyptic imagery we have today.
  This might well be related to the imagery of God depicted in apocalyptic accounts.
  He suspects this support is based on a reading of Christian prophecy that requires an apocalyptic war in the Middle East as the precondition for Christ's return.
  Again, the gospel's apocalyptic imagery denotes the end of an age and calls the people to a shared, wide-awake clarity of purpose.
  I love the way that, in the apocalyptic destruction of Genesis, Nimoy sidesteps the action for the briefest second to show us the beauty of the last sunset on the dying world.
  This is the great long-awaited apocalyptic moment.
  The other times I see him focusing on his artwork while attending the San Francisco Academy of Art and creating his war-torn, apocalyptic imagery that needs few words to explain.
  There is nothing, in short, inherently Jewish or Christian or Muslim about apocalyptic imagery.
  The anthemic title track was emblematic of its overall invention, set against an apocalyptic backdrop; ice ages, zombies of death, nuclear errors.
  Our analysis of the larger culture was characterized by the kind of apocalyptic imagery made popular by the nineteenth-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
  The cover picture shows the apocalyptic moment when Albion rises from his rock and sees the vision of the land as Jerusalem, having subdued and reunited the Four Zoas.
  For as long as organizations buy into, and feed, apocalyptic imagery that issues from Washington, other Christian points of view demand a hearing.
  The scribal community similarly took the destruction of Jerusalem and fit it into the apocalyptic narrative of the destruction and return of once and future cities.
  It might also be seen as a prologue to the twentieth century's proliferation of apocalyptic literary imagery.

Origin

Early 17th century (as a noun denoting the writer of the Apocalypse, St John): from Greek apokaluptikos, from apokaluptein ‘uncover’ (see apocalypse).

词汇	apocalyptic
释义	Definition of apocalyptic in English: apocalyptic adjective əpɒkəˈlɪptɪkəˌpɑkəˈlɪptɪk 1Describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world. 描述（或预示）世界末日的 the apocalyptic visions of ecologists 生态学家所描述的世界末日景象。 Example sentencesExamples The rise of environmental politics since the late 1960s directly stimulated historical scholarship, and gave the new environmental history an occasionally apocalyptic and moralistic tone. Wasn't this apocalyptic comment portentous with all the flooding and massive tidal waves around Thailand and the Indian Ocean? Nor is he given to apocalyptic prophecies. Indeed, the current American spate of interest in apocalyptic prophecy stems precisely from attempts to draw meaning from complex and difficult imagery. But as apocalyptic literature has come in for criticism, so has utopian-by anti-utopians, often satirists. The book's second half focuses on the ethics of prophetic and apocalyptic literature. It was written during the terrifying times of the Cuban missile crisis, but it depicts apocalyptic visions rather than specific details. Even for those who did not accept these apocalyptic scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world. His apocalyptic vision looks more like prophecy than fiction. Rejecting it would mean moving toward strike action, which union leaders are describing in apocalyptic tones. Rather than see social events as holding spiritual significance in a prophetic way, they dismissed literal interpretations of apocalyptic prophecies. Furthermore, news channels would either interview astrologers or fortune tellers and ask them to give apocalyptic and catastrophic predictions that would frighten people. Despairing, however, that he would only be remembered as a political satirist and not a genuine artist in his own right, he changed his subject matter to romantic landscapes or apocalyptic visions of the future. It also has an apocalyptic vision of the future. His writing is apocalyptic in feel, describing a gritty futuristic world in which dream meets reality. I'm not sure the apocalyptic vision is helpful. His work was seminal for understanding the role and importance of apocalyptic literature and its interpretations in the lives of early seventeenth-century Puritans. Yet despite my dismissive attitude towards apocalyptic theories and prophesies, last year's Y2K version did somewhat discomfort me. Climate change is the environmental fear that provokes the greatest degree of apocalyptic prophesy. It was composed and published in a crucial period of European apocalyptic anxiety and millennial anticipation. Synonyms prophetic, predictive, visionary 1.1 Momentous or catastrophic. the struggle between the two countries is assuming apocalyptic proportions 两国间的争斗达到了灾难性的程度。 Example sentencesExamples Such an apocalyptic development would have consequences that, although largely unpredictable in their specifics, would be grave for the region and for the international system as a whole. Galactica makes multiple references to the day in the form of apocalyptic destruction, burnt fire-fighters and the grotesque immediacy of bodies tumbling into space. How can people like Tony Blair be blind to this massive risk of apocalyptic destruction and loss of freedom? Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds. The annihilation of Canada's natural resources can best be described as apocalyptic. If the war happens then the consequences will be more than dire, they will be apocalyptic. These were films made in the aftermath of the apocalyptic experiences of World War I which had a decisive effect on a new generation of artists in Germany. Do you not realise the serious catastrophic, apocalyptic implications if he is correct? This report of the UK media awards describes a an apocalyptic scene, as scribes, put beyond use with alcohol, heckle and taunt their peers; standing on stools, booing the MC off the stage. Its influences have pervaded the whole economy and the whole financial system, and its bursting may have apocalyptic consequences. Such stylistic whimsy hardly seems appropriate to the solemn themes of apocalyptic war and nuclear disaster which consequently lose much of their weight and urgency. The army is ferrying in troops, but they are facing apocalyptic destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground. The aim is to reach back into history to grab on to things because this apocalyptic event has happened. We have had a storm of apocalyptic proportions this morning, with gale force winds and torrential rain for hours. Again, the only real cure to this neurosis, which is apparently taking on apocalyptic proportions, would be for him to feel good about himself. All Western democracies are now acutely aware of the apocalyptic consequences of a well-orchestrated attack on high-profile facilities. The army is ferrying in troops, but they're facing apocalyptic destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground. Maritain saw World War II as nothing less than an apocalyptic passage through unprecedented destruction. Inside the ring, he is a gladiator of apocalyptic proportions. Those who prophesied apocalyptic social change faced great risks. Synonyms important, significant, epoch-making, historic, headline, fateful, portentous, critical, crucial, vital, life-and-death, decisive, pivotal, serious, grave, weighty, consequential, big, great, far-reaching, life-changing, of importance, of moment, of significance, of consequence 1.2 Of or resembling the biblical Apocalypse. （与）《圣经·启示录》（有关）的；像《圣经·启示录》中描述的 apocalyptic imagery 像《圣经·启示录》中描述的世界末日的景象。 Example sentencesExamples The anthemic title track was emblematic of its overall invention, set against an apocalyptic backdrop; ice ages, zombies of death, nuclear errors. I love the way that, in the apocalyptic destruction of Genesis, Nimoy sidesteps the action for the briefest second to show us the beauty of the last sunset on the dying world. The other times I see him focusing on his artwork while attending the San Francisco Academy of Art and creating his war-torn, apocalyptic imagery that needs few words to explain. This is the great long-awaited apocalyptic moment. It might also be seen as a prologue to the twentieth century's proliferation of apocalyptic literary imagery. For as long as organizations buy into, and feed, apocalyptic imagery that issues from Washington, other Christian points of view demand a hearing. This might well be related to the imagery of God depicted in apocalyptic accounts. As a sort of exclamation point, Jesus then uses the apocalyptic imagery we have today. The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an apocalyptic Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist. Again, the gospel's apocalyptic imagery denotes the end of an age and calls the people to a shared, wide-awake clarity of purpose. The cover picture shows the apocalyptic moment when Albion rises from his rock and sees the vision of the land as Jerusalem, having subdued and reunited the Four Zoas. Our analysis of the larger culture was characterized by the kind of apocalyptic imagery made popular by the nineteenth-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody. There is nothing, in short, inherently Jewish or Christian or Muslim about apocalyptic imagery. He suspects this support is based on a reading of Christian prophecy that requires an apocalyptic war in the Middle East as the precondition for Christ's return. The scribal community similarly took the destruction of Jerusalem and fit it into the apocalyptic narrative of the destruction and return of once and future cities. Derivatives apocalyptically adverbəˌpɒkəˈlɪptɪkliəˌpɑkəˈlɪptɪk(ə)li We gazed across the loch at Ben Lomond, which for once, in this apocalyptically bad summer, was gloriously free from cloud and touched lightly by skinny bands of sunlight. Example sentencesExamples But the poet's vision darkens apocalyptically in The Lice, which seems written under the shadow of planetary extinction. He talked angrily - almost apocalyptically - about the threats facing developing countries. The BBC radio news yesterday evening was apocalyptically depressing. It reduced scores of buildings to dust, ignited fires that raged apocalyptically for four days, and cut San Francisco off from all outside communication. Origin Early 17th century (as a noun denoting the writer of the Apocalypse, St John): from Greek apokaluptikos, from apokaluptein 'uncover' (see apocalypse). Rhymes cryptic, diptych, elliptic, glyptic, styptic, triptych Definition of apocalyptic in US English: apocalyptic adjectiveəˌpäkəˈliptikəˌpɑkəˈlɪptɪk 1Describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world. 描述（或预示）世界末日的 the apocalyptic visions of ecologists 生态学家所描述的世界末日景象。 Example sentencesExamples Yet despite my dismissive attitude towards apocalyptic theories and prophesies, last year's Y2K version did somewhat discomfort me. It was written during the terrifying times of the Cuban missile crisis, but it depicts apocalyptic visions rather than specific details. Rather than see social events as holding spiritual significance in a prophetic way, they dismissed literal interpretations of apocalyptic prophecies. His work was seminal for understanding the role and importance of apocalyptic literature and its interpretations in the lives of early seventeenth-century Puritans. The rise of environmental politics since the late 1960s directly stimulated historical scholarship, and gave the new environmental history an occasionally apocalyptic and moralistic tone. Wasn't this apocalyptic comment portentous with all the flooding and massive tidal waves around Thailand and the Indian Ocean? Climate change is the environmental fear that provokes the greatest degree of apocalyptic prophesy. His apocalyptic vision looks more like prophecy than fiction. The book's second half focuses on the ethics of prophetic and apocalyptic literature. Indeed, the current American spate of interest in apocalyptic prophecy stems precisely from attempts to draw meaning from complex and difficult imagery. His writing is apocalyptic in feel, describing a gritty futuristic world in which dream meets reality. It was composed and published in a crucial period of European apocalyptic anxiety and millennial anticipation. Even for those who did not accept these apocalyptic scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world. Despairing, however, that he would only be remembered as a political satirist and not a genuine artist in his own right, he changed his subject matter to romantic landscapes or apocalyptic visions of the future. Nor is he given to apocalyptic prophecies. Rejecting it would mean moving toward strike action, which union leaders are describing in apocalyptic tones. I'm not sure the apocalyptic vision is helpful. But as apocalyptic literature has come in for criticism, so has utopian-by anti-utopians, often satirists. Furthermore, news channels would either interview astrologers or fortune tellers and ask them to give apocalyptic and catastrophic predictions that would frighten people. It also has an apocalyptic vision of the future. Synonyms prophetic, predictive, visionary 1.1 Resembling the end of the world; momentous or catastrophic. 像是世界末日的；重大的；严重的；灾难性的 the struggle between the two countries is assuming apocalyptic proportions 两国间的争斗达到了灾难性的程度。 Example sentencesExamples Such stylistic whimsy hardly seems appropriate to the solemn themes of apocalyptic war and nuclear disaster which consequently lose much of their weight and urgency. Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds. Its influences have pervaded the whole economy and the whole financial system, and its bursting may have apocalyptic consequences. Inside the ring, he is a gladiator of apocalyptic proportions. If the war happens then the consequences will be more than dire, they will be apocalyptic. These were films made in the aftermath of the apocalyptic experiences of World War I which had a decisive effect on a new generation of artists in Germany. Those who prophesied apocalyptic social change faced great risks. Galactica makes multiple references to the day in the form of apocalyptic destruction, burnt fire-fighters and the grotesque immediacy of bodies tumbling into space. How can people like Tony Blair be blind to this massive risk of apocalyptic destruction and loss of freedom? The army is ferrying in troops, but they are facing apocalyptic destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground. Such an apocalyptic development would have consequences that, although largely unpredictable in their specifics, would be grave for the region and for the international system as a whole. The annihilation of Canada's natural resources can best be described as apocalyptic. This report of the UK media awards describes a an apocalyptic scene, as scribes, put beyond use with alcohol, heckle and taunt their peers; standing on stools, booing the MC off the stage. All Western democracies are now acutely aware of the apocalyptic consequences of a well-orchestrated attack on high-profile facilities. The army is ferrying in troops, but they're facing apocalyptic destruction, entire neighborhoods razed to the ground. The aim is to reach back into history to grab on to things because this apocalyptic event has happened. Do you not realise the serious catastrophic, apocalyptic implications if he is correct? Again, the only real cure to this neurosis, which is apparently taking on apocalyptic proportions, would be for him to feel good about himself. Maritain saw World War II as nothing less than an apocalyptic passage through unprecedented destruction. We have had a storm of apocalyptic proportions this morning, with gale force winds and torrential rain for hours. Synonyms important, significant, epoch-making, historic, headline, fateful, portentous, critical, crucial, vital, life-and-death, decisive, pivotal, serious, grave, weighty, consequential, big, great, far-reaching, life-changing, of importance, of moment, of significance, of consequence 1.2 Of or resembling the biblical Apocalypse. （与）《圣经·启示录》（有关）的；像《圣经·启示录》中描述的 apocalyptic imagery 像《圣经·启示录》中描述的世界末日的景象。 Example sentencesExamples The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an apocalyptic Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist. As a sort of exclamation point, Jesus then uses the apocalyptic imagery we have today. This might well be related to the imagery of God depicted in apocalyptic accounts. He suspects this support is based on a reading of Christian prophecy that requires an apocalyptic war in the Middle East as the precondition for Christ's return. Again, the gospel's apocalyptic imagery denotes the end of an age and calls the people to a shared, wide-awake clarity of purpose. I love the way that, in the apocalyptic destruction of Genesis, Nimoy sidesteps the action for the briefest second to show us the beauty of the last sunset on the dying world. This is the great long-awaited apocalyptic moment. The other times I see him focusing on his artwork while attending the San Francisco Academy of Art and creating his war-torn, apocalyptic imagery that needs few words to explain. There is nothing, in short, inherently Jewish or Christian or Muslim about apocalyptic imagery. The anthemic title track was emblematic of its overall invention, set against an apocalyptic backdrop; ice ages, zombies of death, nuclear errors. Our analysis of the larger culture was characterized by the kind of apocalyptic imagery made popular by the nineteenth-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody. The cover picture shows the apocalyptic moment when Albion rises from his rock and sees the vision of the land as Jerusalem, having subdued and reunited the Four Zoas. For as long as organizations buy into, and feed, apocalyptic imagery that issues from Washington, other Christian points of view demand a hearing. The scribal community similarly took the destruction of Jerusalem and fit it into the apocalyptic narrative of the destruction and return of once and future cities. It might also be seen as a prologue to the twentieth century's proliferation of apocalyptic literary imagery. Origin Early 17th century (as a noun denoting the writer of the Apocalypse, St John): from Greek apokaluptikos, from apokaluptein ‘uncover’ (see apocalypse).
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