Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic threat»

The tactic succeeded wildly last year in persuading Scottish voters to vote with their wallets rather than their hearts and stay in the U.K., so Cameron and his Treasury chief George Osborne have doubled down with a series of apocalyptic threats, from World War III to cuts in state pensions and even — gasp!

While the other superhero films of 2016 dealt with apocalyptic threats and bad guys with grand, dastardly schemes, Deadpool kept things simple and restrained, and it was all the better for it.

In popular culture, asteroids play the role of apocalyptic threat, get blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs — and offer an extraterrestrial source for mineral mining.

When the previous films have all ended with apocalyptic threats and a narrow avoidance of world - ending calamity, where is a Marvel movie to go from there?

Paradoxically, the apocalyptic warning is intended to remove the apocalyptic threat by acts of apocalyptic transcendence.

So I try to put out of my mind the apocalyptic threats under which I live.

Thomas Wilkins wrote in to suggest that antibiotics becoming ineffective would not be an apocalyptic threat, since we have innate...

«No Such Thing as Werewolves» is a science fiction novel that brings together ancient civilizations, an apocalyptic threat, and werewolves — the result is a story that's tense and exciting...»

Kennedy then repeated the canard propagated by Helen Caldicott (which is a key scene in the film) that Chernobyl killed nearly 1 million people — proving, therefore, that nuclear energy poses an apocalyptic threat to human health.