Sentences with phrase «end of civilization»

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The human race can breathe a tiny bit easier (but not too much) now that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hand of its Doomsday Clock one minute farther away from midnight, the time which symbolizes catastrophic destruction and the apocalyptic end of civilization.

Merchants of Doubt in a nutshell: How a 90 yr - old man and a few dead friends fool the stupid American public, end of civilization results.

However, if that happens, it could mean the end of civilization as we know it.

if you pay attention to discussions of higher education funding, one of the memes that inevitably pops up revolves around the notion that higher education has been under some brutal, neo-liberal assault since... well, I'm not sure, but probably since 1995 at least, and everything is being defunded, laid on the backs of students, it's the end of civilization, dark ages ahead, etc., etc..

@Robb: If Friday had been a down day as well, that would have given the world the whole weekend to predict the end of civilization.

Religion will likely be the end of civilization as we know it.

Does feminism or same - sex marriage really undermine marriage or foreshadow the end of civilization?

At the end of civilization's long history, the ancient view about the harmony between the forces of nature has been destroyed — destroyed by modern monotheism on the one hand, and by scientific mechanism on the other.

Burke came too close to succumbing to a kind of negative absolute momentism — thinking of the French Revolution as the beginning of the end of civilization.

It's a sign of the end of our Civilization.

Where is the evidence that gay marriage will lead to the end of civilization?

The central questions Augustine addressed in The City of God, questions of absolute moment to him and to his contemporaries, were: What or who is responsible for the end of civilization?

, we would be near the end of civilization as we know it.

William Irwin Thompson reported in his still - interesting 1971 book At the Edge of History that the San Francisco hippies in the summer of 1967 devoutly expected the end of civilization in a catastrophic chain of earthquakes or the arrival of flying saucers.

Are children's menus an absolute necessity for families dining out or are they the end of civilization?

I don't think such effects will mean the end of humanity or even the end of civilization.

But if we do nothing... it will mean the end of civilization as we know it.

C: You could have one of the smaller asteroids come crashing into our planet, and that would be the end of civilization.

But warming could also lead, paradoxically, to abrupt and drastic cooling («Global warming's evil twin»)-- a catastrophe that could threaten the end of civilization.

While the rich people who violated a dead antagonist's wishes seem sleazy (especially when they refuse to be interviewed), transporting world - class artwork five miles to a bigger facility where more people can enjoy it hardly seems like the end of civilization as we know it.

This flick isn't just bad, it falls into that rare category of works that are actual harbingers of the end of civilization as we know it.

And if it hadn't been for Mario and the encouragement of his allies, the opening of that door would have signaled the end of civilization.

Trying to lure the self - hypnotized gamer nation out into the world to see a dystopian popcorn flick that paints Sims - style living as the end of civilization might seem like a fool's errand.

Tom Cruise plays a divorced dockworker who faces the end of the civilization when aliens arrive on Earth in the 2005 adaptation of H.G. Wells story War of the Worlds.

Infertility is a interesting and fresh way to go with an end of civilization movie.

Huge chunks of the movie, way more than one would expect from a story set at the end of civilization, concern themselves with mooning over Jared (Max Irons), whom Melanie met before she was captured, and Ian (Jake Abel: I Am Number Four, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief), whom Wanderer finds totally cute.

It's not the end of civilization, just symptomatic of how easy it is to get laughs on the backs of the disenfranchised — and of how African - American actors get awards for singing and acting like criminals (or bright children and athletes) but generally get paid for acting the fool.

But that was back before the end of civilization as -LSB-...]

Aside from helping to clarify why some viewers revel in downbeat and sometimes downright disturbing movies like The Woman, the sentiment also speaks to why many contemporary filmmakers» own fears and paranoia — about the end of civilization, or indie cinema — increasingly inspire dark, depressing works emphasizing domestic abuse, apocalyptic angst, religious opposition, the after - effects of war, suffering, and death.

If there is a god, Farrell will get an Oscar nom for his monotone bachelor who dispassionately observes the end of civilization until he finds passion too late.

With the news that the latest Porsche 911 GT3 wouldn't have a manual transmission, a great many Porsche diehards grabbed their go - bags and fled to their doomsday compounds, certain that this news portended the end of civilization.

Back then, when prospective annual sales were off by a few hundred thousand units — let alone 700,000 — headlines would scream, analysts would predict the end of civilization as we know it and automakers would knee - jerk so hard they required arthroscopic surgery.

Not so long ago, when prospective annual sales were off by a few hundred thousand units — let alone 700,000 — headlines would scream, analysts would predict the end of civilization as we know it and automakers would knee - jerk so hard they required arthroscopic surgery.

lots of political and social commentary buried in it, though, and the larger story is cleverly framed (the end of civilization is in the middle, and the ending goes love - among - the - ruins instead), which is probably why Chaykin wrote it.

I know some in the States look at coloring books as the end of civilization,» he said with a laugh.

It's the end of civilization as we know it, folks: --RRB-

The picture of the Maya near the end of their civilization is one of a society under stress from many directions.

· Depot 22 — Depot 22 is a watering hole at the end of civilization that focuses on mid-ranged encounters waged in a medium - sized, three - lane map.

Warhammer Fantasy is particularly defined by its apocalypse, its ragnarök: the Vermintide, where a wave of ratmen and evil vikings will end all of civilization.

The storyline was simple enough; another post-apocalyptic survival horror set at the end of civilization where the remaining humans are trying to survive in a harsh, bitter world.

The game demo opened up with a clan of what looked like cavemen who are fighting to survive after the end of civilization as we know it.

Douglas Gordon, The End of Civilization, 2012, video still.

As Mr. Campbell put it, «Every year the reactions suggest it is the end of civilization — and then it happens the next year again.»

Where do we turn when the end of our civilization confronts us?