Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic stories»

You obviously want to imply, like Cook et al, that it means that humans are responsible for most global warming, cause if they ain't nobody cares about the apocalyptic stories.

I guess epic apocalyptic stories like the Noah myth lend themselves to overstaying their welcome.

We've added lots of little details that tell various apocalyptic stories if you look closely, and placed rewarding secrets for the most inquisitive» - reveals producer Tymon Smektała.

You play the character of Senua, a Celtic warrior set in the time of myths and legends of Viking invasions and apocalyptic stories.

It also influenced a lot of modern day post apocalyptic stories and pretty much revolutionized if not created the genre.

We tend to have a basic knowledge of history and know that there is nothing magical or special about the supposed history of the Jews, gospels, letters, apocalyptic story (Revelations) and other materials that found their way into the Bible, in that they are largely indistinguishable from the other mythology and religious writings of the Greco - Roman Mediterranean.

The ancient apocalyptic story thus shows a real tension in its narrative vision.

Thus the apocalyptic story, with its vision of an all - encompassing end, tends to shift the new from being a surprise in the plot to being a final cessation of new occurrence at all.

The most striking instance of the concrete new taken into an apocalyptic story so that it becomes the peripety or surprise in the plot would be the adaptation of the apocalyptic story by the early Christians to the new which they saw in Christ.

We tend to have a basic knowledge of history and know that there is nothing magical or special about the supposed history of the Jews, gospels, letters, apocalyptic story

Is this apocalyptic story likely to leave British audiences «enraptured»?

We look forward to working with them and David Mackenzie to bring this haunting apocalyptic story of the world gone wrong to American audiences.»

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life.

A meteor sets off a chain of horrific events in this apocalyptic story filled with honest characters and emotions.

It is a twisted, apocalyptic story oozing from the insane mind of Jack Stark, from his soon to be released short story collection, «Tales from a Dying Planet».

Most of the script suits the mood of an apocalyptic story, but there are a few places in the script that could definitely do with a rewrite, as they feel decidedly out of place or rush the story forward without a plausible explanation.

Their apocalyptic story was also awarded «Best PlayStation Game.»

In a near - apocalyptic story such as this, having an unintentionally «dead feeling» city is a big setback.

To its credit, Newsweek has remained on the cutting edge of climate panic, determined never to let a good apocalyptic story slip through its fingers.

Despite Garvey's claims that there is more to understanding climate change than the «science», without the «science» narrating the apocalyptic story driving environmental ethics, there is nothing for the moral philosopher to consider; it is «unethical» not to «do something» to «combat climate change».

Not exact matches

Its morally complex stories are rife with blockbuster - ready special effects like locust plagues, apocalyptic floods and talking donkeys.

We could illustrate from stories like Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins that are apocalyptic in the narrow sense; these would raise the question, as old as Hebrew prophecy, of the paradoxical tension between threat of inevitable destruction and summons to new, creative action.

This book is more than a collection of apocalyptic horror stories; it is in the authors» characterization a «can - do» book: a book about what you [meaning all of us] tan do to help restore the work ethic.»

Both early Christian apocalyptic and Zealot apocalyptic drew on the openness of this form of world - vision to the new, to make possible a meaningful participation of the believer in the «big story» to which he found that he was contributing as it moved forward to its end.

They reversed the trend of apocalyptic narrative: instead of thrusting the decisive change out of the plot into the consummation, they brought the symbols of the end into the midst of the crisis of the story by applying them to Jesus.

Another way of getting at what is at issue is to say that apocalyptic narrative is instructive for us because it shows the difficulty of working both God and man into the same story.

Some attention to the story form in apocalyptic can show us some of the reasons why the narrative form is in trouble, while process theology has some fundamentally useful hints about how we may re-imagine the story, or grasp a new narrative vision of the world, which will enable us to set the new into a meaningful framework and respond to it with hope.

Note that the mighty events recorded in the New Testament are often given musical settings, as in the Christmas stories and in the apocalyptic visions of the Revelation of John.

It is a combination of historical story, with the scene laid in the time of King Nebuchadnezzar, and a new type of writing, the apocalyptic literature.

The people who write apocalyptic or consoling or hortatory messages on their houses and barns, or nail them to their fence posts, might well tell you stories, long stories if they had any opportunity at all to do so.

The special materials of Matthew, then, and his own religious interpretation of the story of Jesus point in the direction of an apocalyptic - minded Christianity emerging from Judaism in the direction of a universalizing Catholicism.

The apocalyptic literature should be regarded as the story of politically oppressed people about the dominating powers.

The story of Creation (Genesis 1 and 2), the Vision of the Messianic Reign (Isaiah 11, Rev. 21 and 22) and other apocalyptic visions belong to the same category.

Sylvia Fleener, 53, of Union, W.Va., claims that The Omega Code, the 1999 apocalyptic movie, was originally her story.

This week's Belief Blog story on doomsday leader Harold Camping claiming he still expects the world to end on October 21, even after the apocalyptic events he predicted for Saturday failed to materialize, fetched nearly 5,000 comments.

A site full of bad date stories, sketchy emails, peculiar profiles, and apocalyptic breakup tales.

Six hours left to a matter - of - fact end of the world, but don't expect apocalyptic activity in Last Night, a surreal, elegantly melancholy, and yet witty ensemble story — the snazzy feature directorial debut of Canadian writer - actor Don McKellar (The Red Violin) and the antidote to Y2K baloney.

A great classic adventure game with an amazing retro art style and unusual story set in a rare fantasy world that connects science - finstion and post apocalyptic novels

There is virtually no precedent for this film, with past Christian movies looking to inspire, move, or awaken with sentimental family drama, Biblical stories, and apocalyptic tales of the Rapture.

His struggles with inadequacy and fear have been a major part of the story arc of Marvel's movies, and from the apocalyptic look of the Soul World - colored parts of the trailer, it could be that Thanos has used the Soul Stone to create a personal version of hell for Stark.

The ship's great look, the decent (though very dark, which fits the situation but means a lack of detail to appreciate) special effects, and Garland's threadbare moral quandary within the story's impending apocalyptic setting keep things slightly intriguing until the story proper kicks in.

The story told here by Garland — whose screenwriting credits also include 28 Days Later, Dredd, Sunshine, and Never Let Me Go — contains elements familiar from his past works: apocalyptic events, authority figures or scientists faced with ethical dilemmas, the exploration of the issues of gender, identity, and creation.

Past MvC stories have amounted to little more than bare a premise, all in line with what the original's PlayStation manual describes with no more detail than «apocalyptic schemes.»

For those of you unaware Cloud Atlas is a story that jumps from century to century from the 1800s all the way up to our post apocalyptic future.

The series, with the exception of the final two episodes, functioned as narratively complete short stories with a definite Zane Grey - cum - Edgar Rice Burroughs - cum - Philip K. Dick feeling (pulp as masticated by an apocalyptic culture, the only one that has experienced an atomic weapon attack)-- building as it progressed a bebop quintet of characters with hero Spike, mentor Jet, buxom femme Faye, spirit guide Ed, and animal sidekick Ein.

Some of you may have seen his first two features — the teen - drama / time - travel film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the techno - apocalyptic dysfunctional family dramedy Summer Wars — but the director tops himself with his third and latest film Wolf Children, a stunningly beautiful, unabashedly sentimental, and surprisingly complex story that works as both a coming - of - age film and a study of the trials of being a single mother.

Shannon is one of the few actors who can express those emotions at length without seeming to relish it a little too much, in part because it seems possible that his efforts will cost him his mind and in part because (apocalyptic outburst notwithstanding) Nichols doesn't gravitate toward that kind of melodrama, even when his story seems to call for it.

The story being filmed here is a progression to an apocalyptic confrontation with a villain who closely resembles Satan.

He was in this motel room in El Paso with his son, and he was looking out the window while his son was sleeping when that story [about an apocalyptic natural disaster] came to him.

For his fifth film, writer / director Jeff Nichols eschewed aliens, apocalyptic visions, and bounty hunters in favour of a period love story that...