Sentences with phrase «as apocalyptic»

Seeing it as apocalyptic language isn't really right given the context.

Pangea (also the title of a work in the exhibition by Lance Turner) is geology's name for the primal, unified landmass, which has since broken into today's separate continents by the subterranean drift of the earth's tectonic plates; as this apocalyptic year of 2012 progresses, the work brought together in this combined seven - artist show will undergo its own continental drift, and the meaning of each individual artistic practice will become more apparent.

His lurid fantasy landscapes painted on stock - market listings draw contemporary analogies between the state of the planet and industrial capitalism, but their dramatic geography originates in the New World vistas of the Hudson River School, just as their apocalyptic storm clouds derive from John Martin.

Some have described his paintings as apocalyptic, but there is something determinedly human about the vulnerable naked bodies that roam his acid landscapes.

Intended as an apocalyptic painting, the cow is a demonic beast rising from the flames gleefully lapping its tongue and snorting smoke — a force of nature impossible to keep at bay.

Feet shuffle awkwardly as that apocalyptic information sinks in, especially because we still mix up pictures with memories.

Discover the thrills of finding your soulmate in Japan's iconic musical love story, and prepare to fight for your love in the most testing of times, as an apocalyptic virus begins sweeping across the world and threatens to infect those closest to you.

Much of the game passed in a haze as apocalyptic scenery scrolled by at a measured pace while lugubrious music surged in the background.

We're referring to «Sulfurings: Tales from Sodom & Gomorrah» as apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic literature for what we hope are obvious reasons.

The movie can best be described as an apocalyptic «Grown Ups» with better casting, better writing, better acting and overall betterment on all fronts.

However, as The Death Cure effectively concludes the last film franchise that was born of the popularity of The Hunger Games, it doesn't provide any real incentive to revive the narrow genre of dystopian YA - based sci - fi that has a future as bleak as the apocalyptic landscapes they depict.

You could describe Take Shelter (Sony), the second feature from the talented Jeff Nichols, as an apocalyptic thriller, but this is a different kind of horror.

Described as an apocalyptic horror by rising director Miguel Angel Vivas, his forthcoming collaboration with powerhouse producer Jaume Collet - Serra - WELCOME TO HARMONY -...

What happens at the end of Short Cuts isn't quite as apocalyptic as all that; nevertheless, it allows the characters to register their idiosyncratic responses to an extremely clear intimation of mortality.

He looks on the Ivy League prospects of his teenaged son (Austin Abrams), the narrative engine that gets him out of his house and onto the road, as an apocalyptic test of his own failings in his formative years.

ii 15 concerned with the same kind of expectation as the apocalyptic and rabbinic passages, but there are some striking differences.

Only some Jewish parties, such as the apocalyptic writers of Daniel, I Enoch and Jubilees, and the Qumran Sect and the Pharisees, embraced some or all of these Zoroastrian notions before the beginning of the Christian era.

The kingdom, therefore, is not to be viewed either as an apocalyptic breakthrough from another world to put an end to this one or as the goal of a long - continued social process within earthly history.

He preferred to see himself as the apocalyptic figure of Daniel 7, whose coming would spell the end of the bestial earthly kingdoms, and to whom the Ancient of Days would give the kingdom of God, rather than seeing himself a king in David's line, even an apocalyptic one.

These interpreters hold that Jesus used the phrase only in its ordinary sense of «man,» and that some community in which the Gospel tradition was being formed, itself thinking of Jesus as the apocalyptic Son of Man, read that meaning back into Jesus» words.

Nothing so clearly unveils Hegel's system as an apocalyptic system as does this ending, but such an ultimate ending is unique to apocalypticism, for even if it parallels archaic visions of eternal return, it wholly differs from all primordial vision in knowing an absolute and final ending, an ending which is apocalypse itself.

That in turn has allowed a glimpse into the earliest phases of the Jesus movement, including its transition from a community gathered around the wisdom of Jesus to a sect that looked for his return as an apocalyptic messiah.

What the Jesus Seminar has proposed is that the «voice print» of Jesus that emerges from a study of the parables and other sayings is one that seems to be in tension with the traditional representation of Jesus as an apocalyptic teacher.

Yet it is not enough to think of Jesus as an apocalyptic preacher, however true this may be, for his apocalypticism was quite distinct from that of mainstream Judaism.

Reading each reference, it is clear that Calvin treated it as apocalyptic literature, written for the comfort of the suffering, persecuted church in the first century and that he found in it notes of comfort for every age.

Insofar as apocalyptic is open to the new, it is not because its authors «liked» the new, but because they could not tolerate the existing world.

Jesus can appear neither as an apocalyptic Son of Man nor as an eternal Son of God, nor can we isolate the historical Jesus from the «mythological» categories of the New Testament.

Just as the apocalyptic New Aeon of primitive Christianity appears only in the context of the seeming triumph of the Old Aeon of darkness, a total act of faith in Christ demands a dialectical movement occasioned by the presence of the radical profane.

However, the last lunar eclipse on 28 September 2015 should not be identified as the apocalyptic blood moon described in Scripture passages like Revelation 6:12 - 17.

What now follows is commonly known as the apocalyptic discourse (Mk 13:5 - 37).

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

We can listen to the words and triumphant strains of the «Internationale» and hear what is best described as an apocalyptic hymn:

The app, Apple users say, is inferior to the previous Google Maps apps, with misplaced locations and visually confusing images (such as an apocalyptic depiction of the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge).

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While most discussions of this topic focus on potential lost jobs or apocalyptic scenarios, these authors — Accenture's Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson — see the glass as decidedly more than half full.

Things just went from catastrophic to apocalyptic as Volkswagen just admitted that the emission test cheating engine management software at the center of the Dieselgate controversy is installed in 11 million Volkswagen Group cars worldwide.

It's clear what his priorities are, to punish those programs and people most deserving of funding in order to portray the «draconian» 1.2 % cut in the growth of spending as nigh unto apocalyptic.

Types like this typically view Israel and Jews rather fondly, as they fit in with a peculiar apocalyptic credo strongly held by such groups.

The theological obtuseness of the Roman court theologians (Cajetan partly excepted), the inability or unwillingness of the Roman authorities to appropriate their own best ecclesiological traditions, and the unlovely influence of financial politics on the handling of the doctrinal issues all played a considerable role, as did Luther's impatience and anger, his inability to take stupid and inappropriate papal teaching at all calmly (perhaps because his own early view of the papal office was unrealistically high), as well as his tendency to dramatize his own situation in apocalyptic terms.

If, as George Weigel has suggested, 1968 was absolutely the worst moment for Humanae Vitae to appear, it could not have been a better one for Ehrlich to advance his apocalyptic thesis.

Antichrist is important insofar as he is a window on to the apocalyptic worldview.

These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.

Dealing with a man whom they knew was consumed with the Apocalypse, they deliberately created a situation that the Davidians could not have seen as anything but apocalyptic.

There was a twinge of the apocalyptic to the Y2Kers who seemed almost gleeful as they stockpiled food and water in preparation for the impending worldwide computer glitch that would return us to pre-computer life.

His thesis, fiercely argued, and indeed with an extreme of rhetoric faintly reminiscent of Nietzsche, was that the culture of his day, both bourgeois and modernist, was in fact so thoroughly feminized as to make the redemption of masculinity impossible outside of an apocalyptic scenario; and that this, and not some alleged patriarchal bias, was the root of all modern decadence (and violence).

In the apocalyptic developments reflected in the books of Ezekiel, Joel, and Daniel, the judgment takes shape as a great battle in which Yahweh will rescue his people from the hands of the powerful empires which have held them in bondage.

The academic theorists of the cultural left - those who have been distracted by «mostly apocalyptic French and German philosophy» at the expense of political economy — must recognize that they now need as allies «what remains of the pre-sixties reformist left.»

Whenever the text turns apocalyptic, as it does this week, there would seem to be only two choices: either take it literally and join the lucrative doomsday machine of late - night, splendidly coifed Christian psychics, or begin your best apologetic backpedaling — cheered on by Bishop John Spong.

An extreme example is to be found in the exploitation of the more obscure «apocalyptic» writings» such as the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament and the book of Revelation in the New, which became the licensed playground of every crank.

Thomas Paine's assertion in Common Sense that «we have it in our power to begin the world over again» represents secularized apocalyptic thought in the form of a revolutionary overthrow of monarchy, which was demonized as anti-Christ.

The classical presentation of the critical position divides the «Son of Man» sayings into three groups: apocalyptic sayings about the future «Son of Man»; sayings in which Jesus» passion is spoken of as the passion of the «Son of Man»; and miscellaneous sayings in which Jesus refers to himself during his public ministry as «Son of Man».