apocalyptic

All of the earliest followers of Jesus seemed to have been apocalyptic minded Jews, and that's the beginning of early Christianity.

It was like being in one of those post-apocalyptic science-fiction films where vagrants wander the wasteland looking for food and shelter.

But on the whole he seems to have done much better than some apocalyptic predictions before his election suggested.

Nothing gets me in the mood for a little retro post- apocalyptic science fiction action-adventure like a little operatic chanting.

THE post-apocalyptic seems to be all the rage with readers of novels and short stories, both highbrow and low.

Orchestral sound walls build up around the listener, creating an apocalyptic atmosphere that leads you into the dark and menacing world.

Build up control of the city as you hold off the human and inhuman threats of the post- apocalyptic world.

The argument that political rage can be clearly distinguished from apocalyptic fantasy is problematic, to say the least.

Israelis, or rather, Israeli Jews, are beginning to feel much the way their parents did in those apocalyptic days.

Apocalyptic is one of those political kinds of forces in early Christianity, although certainly not the only one.

At any other time, numbers like these would be apocalyptic , but they're what pass for good news these days.

It's a very interesting place resembling one of those post-apocalyptic landscapes of "Stalker" , especially in cloudy or foggy weather.

Revelation is the only canonical representative of a large genre of early Christian apocalyptic literature.

A victory is a victory, but what struck viewers in Iowa was that Iraq has heavily-armed apocalyptic factions they have never even heard of.

So what is apocalypse fever, then? Just a few bulging pockets of apocalyptic stupidity.

However dramatic this week's images were, to most people on the ground in Belfast, things seem less than apocalyptic.

His theme was his latest apocalyptic vision: that conflict between the United States and Iran could escalate into nuclear war.

Your characterisation of Confucianism, with its simultaneous apocalyptic and grandiose predictions for China, is barely more than a cartoon.

And if you were worried that your food would be bland in the post-apocalyptic future, fret no more.

"The goal is very apocalyptic and simple: attack these enemies and the symbols of those enemies, " he said.

WITH its deserts and its slight air of decay, New Mexico is a good place to shoot a post-apocalyptic action film.

Now he post apocalyptic on TV, if someone amounted to break his favorite program he be very angry.

This author hasn't thrown away the Christian apocalyptic that we saw working so much in Revelation to be anti-Roman.

Less apocalyptic visions have it languishing for a while yet, terminally ill but on life support.

The break up of the eurozone would be a crisis of apocalyptic proportions, going beyond our financial system.

Unfortunately, he falls into the lazy trap of extrapolation, which leads him to unduly apocalyptic conclusions.

The blow to eurozone efforts to save the currency came amid increasingly apocalyptic predictions of a euro collapse.

California, you may have heard, is an apocalyptic mess of raging wildfires, soaring unemployment, mass foreclosures and political paralysis.

Looks like end-of-the-world theorists may need to find another ancient calendar on which to pin their apocalyptic hopes.

How you dress and react in the 'post apocalyptic' world affects almost everything around you in one of the games of the year.

Heaven and Hell have been left in complete disarray since the apocalyptic events of season five.

Here we have a clear case of a totally different ideological take on early Christianity, but it's still apocalyptic.

Finally the apocalyptic tone sometimes used in attempts to drive a message home can further hinder the case for constructive action.

How does this make sense for Ronald Reagan, the most powerful man in the world, to have this apocalyptic world view?

It was a weapon that could actually be used in battle, not only in apocalyptic scenarios envisioned by nuclear strategists.

The plot is focused primarily on the human element of a post-apocalyptic world and the way the struggling human race survives.

The European: Apocalyptic thoughts have been around for thousands of years.

Then, again, all of this apocalyptic speculation about takeovers and bankruptcies could be overblown.

These thinkers see Jesus as both apocalyptic prophet and reforming sage, as purifier of Judaism and builder of a new order.

Its ruling clerics, whom Netanyahu described as a "messianic apocalyptic cult, " believe time, history, and Allah are on their side.

Apocalyptic is a political ideology, but what kind of politics it teaches in the early times of Christianity can vary.

The Polish foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, urged Germany to save the EU from "a crisis of apocalyptic proportions" .

The apocalyptic blockbuster depicts a world in which global warming triggers a cascade of events that practically flash-freeze the planet.

What was most disturbing about Mr. Bush's remarks was their black-and-white, even apocalyptic tone.

And the high levels of education and the renowned discipline of its people certainly helped it avoid apocalyptic consequences.

Visitors who take up the offer are met with an apocalyptic sight.

It looks like a filmmaker's apocalyptic vision of Earth following a devastating natural disaster.

But the consensus around the Gulf Coast is turning more apoplectic and apocalyptic.

I'd read enough apocalyptic fiction by then, and I didn't really have much faith in what life was going to look like after that anyway.

London, UK: Looking through plastic curtains at visitors checking out Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's apocalyptic installation, 'TH.

for instance, the apocalyptic traditions and Neoplatonic experiences and symbolizations.

Take up arms and fight for survival as either Humans or Mutants in this real time strategy game based in a post-apocalyptic future.

We both come from a western, Christian culture with a deep apocalyptic tradition.

Amongst this apocalyptic landscape of erupting volcanoes, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi confronted Darth Vader, his former apprentice.

A true apocalyptic scenario would see these events take place in major producers such as Saudi Arabia.

Who else was an apocalyptic prophet? Paul.

Alternately thundering and whispering from the podium, he wove together biblical, historical and apocalyptic themes.

Sometimes these prophets arose, and they were themselves apocalyptic prophets, announcing the end of the known world soon.

Solve the mysteries and meet the strange characters of a post-apocalyptic world in this one.

Fifthly there is the prospect of a break-up of the eurozone, either "apocalyptic or controlled" . .

So Malthus looks bearable even when he sits astride the apocalyptic horse of climate change.

The service saw itself as the high tech deterrent against an apocalyptic encounter with another superpower.

Access to capital, whether debt or equity, has mitigated fears of apocalyptic defaults that threatened to extend the economic downturn.

So Jewish scripture itself gave Jews of Paul's day the idea that the apocalyptic end would bring all the nations in.

That's certainly one lesson of the "Green Revolution" that averted the famines many apocalyptic environmentalists forecast in the 1970s.

Backers of the proposition to ban same-sex marriage in the state cast their campaign in apocalyptic terms.

This, he noted, would temper the risk of an apocalyptic conflagration of diseases.

Indeed, the latest projections from reputable climate scientists border on the apocalyptic. Why?

There's kind of an apocalyptic world view that I'll talk about also.

It might also help if European leaders stopped talking of the euro crisis in quite such apocalyptic terms.

Hazy, dust-filtered sunlight illuminates a landscape of eerie, post- apocalyptic silence.

Post-apocalyptic worlds run throughout modern Japanese literature, both in high-brow and low-brow fiction.

Perhaps it was his work in the midst of bubonic plague outbreaks that gave him his particular interest in apocalyptic visions of the future.

Most of the NCR is made up of farmers, merchants or settlers seeking protection from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world.

It is action packed, adrenaline filled, apocalyptic survival experiment for the dare devils .

In the post-apocalyptic zombie world Pizza Hut could make deliveries to our barricaded fortresses with unmanned delivery helicopters.

Some may bridle at the apocalyptic scenarios he raises but these often serve a legitimate purpose.

Nobody desires to return to chaos without having first experienced an apocalyptic vertigo.

He "hates being apocalyptic" but says his grandchildren will have to choose how to minimise their exposure to the risks.

There were reports of unbearably loud sounds, apocalyptic winds, strange blue lights.

Many internet postings and guests on all-night apocalyptic radio have elaborated on these themes.

all of them reveal a universe of lurking perils, like exploding stars, apocalyptic asteroid impacts. . .

APOCALYPTIC language fuels the technology industry as much as venture capital does.

But this year the heatwave has lent them greater ferocity, giving the capital an apocalyptic feel.

The two apocalyptic, most apocalyptic books in the Bible are Daniel and Revelation.

His anger builds to an apocalyptic outpouring with few parallels in the history of cinema.

California is famous for its sunshine. But the dry weather can cause apocalyptic disasters.

Annual discoveries equate to only half the oil the world currently consumes, which sounds apocalyptic.

One need not look very far for an arbitrary apocalyptic date.

So often a diagnosis anywhere on the autism spectrum is discussed in apocalyptic terms.

So often a diagnosis anywhere on the autism spectrum is discussed in apocalyptic terms.

Sol76In the post-apocalyptic zombie world Pizza Hut could make deliveries to our barricaded fortresses with unmanned delivery helicopters.

The apocalyptic material there serves a different purpose than it did in Revelation and some other Christian and Jewish text.

So the last thing is: what does the apocalyptic do here?

So how did Earth's earliest organic molecules hang on during these apocalyptic times?

THE apocalyptic streak of the North Korean regime is showing.

It's not always true that the people who believe in these kinds of apocalyptic ideas are themselves in fact an oppressed minority.

Very few are that apocalyptic. But plenty fear more choppy times to come.

In about 250 pages, apocalyptic scenarios from Frankencrops and supervolcanoes to nanobots and biotech contagions are covered.

Those less apocalyptic might call it the "Japanese disease" .

The reason is, I'm fascinated by the post apocalyptic recovery.

Ever wonder what life will be like in a post- apocalyptic world?

Because this is highly unlikely, Huang added, even science fiction usually imports apocalyptic pathogens from outer space.

Within this category of disaster movies there is a a powerful sub-genre, the "post-apocalyptic fiction" .

Well, based on Mayan Calendar and the Dresden Codex, the Egyptians and the Mayans had the end-times of 2012 as an apocalyptic event.

From the makers of the apocalyptic sci-fi film "The Day After Tomorrow" comes another disaster film based on the Mayan prophecy "2012. "

The Godzilla films are well-known for their vivid allegory of apocalyptic nuclear chaos engulfing Tokyo.

A weakness of the book is its apocalyptic tone.

But Super 8 has a gentler vibe: it leavens the apocalyptic threat with the budding bonding of Joe and Alice.

So where do the apocalyptic warnings about the cost of climate-change policy come from?

But this seems too apocalyptic a view for most of the CEE region.

we want a prophet , not a curmudgeon . he should do more apocalyptic doom.

If we continue with business as usual, they say, we are facing a rise in global temperatures that will be little short of apocalyptic.

The ragged domes in the desert look like something from the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max.

Perhaps it is the perfect foil to my apocalyptic vision.

Some researchers think that apocalyptic dread feeds off our collective anxiety about events that lie outside our individual control.

Nothing that is happening, including the apocalyptic editorials in foreign media, is just chance.

But compared to some of the apocalyptic visions, it's great.

Surely, some get slowly flung away in long tidal arms as seen in the wide-field image, but that is hardly apocalyptic.

This is how we date apocalyptic literature.

We're no longer with this letter in a kind of Christianity that has apocalyptic fervor to it.

It is because the Mayan Calendar says December 21, 2012 is the apocalyptic day.

Despite the apocalyptic visions of a decade ago, Indonesia is a huge success. But it should aim higher

Stripped of its apocalyptic Tone, what this amounts to is an advocacy of teaching names, dates and places by rote(Stefan Kanfer)

John Gray, a British political philosopher, is author of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (Allen Lane)

The author's book Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia is published by Penguin

Apocalyptic screams mean nothing to the dead

Apocalyptic and insane, my dreams will never change