Sentences with phrase «in apocalyptic stories»
A meteor sets off a chain of horrific events in this apocalyptic story filled with honest characters and emotions.
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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.
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.
The ancient apocalyptic story thus shows a real tension in its narrative vision.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.»
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.
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.
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...
The Black Ghiandola is a story about a young man risking his life to save a young girl he has grown to love, after his family has been killed in the Apocalyptic world of Zombies.
Book one in the series presented such a perfect apocalyptic world building that the readers didn't need back story; it was so unbelievably «never going to happen» far - fetched that it was just an awesome book that sucked us in and made us want to know what happened in The Glade.
Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, Metro 2033, by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky is a story of intensive underground survival.
I like Zarr's work because no matter how many dystopian / post - apocalyptic / paranormal YA books I read — my heart will always be with realistic contemporary stories filled which characters in a world that I recognize.
You play the character of Senua, a Celtic warrior set in the time of myths and legends of Viking invasions and apocalyptic stories.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is the fourth instalment of the popular Telltale series based on the Walking Dead graphic novels and is the third season in the story that follows Clementine on her path to surviving the apocalyptic world filled with infected walkers while scavenging the limited resources and secure shelter.
Rapture told the story of how an apocalyptic event affected one small English village and the normal people caught up in the extraordinary event.
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.
The story, from what I've seen so far, takes place in a post apocalyptic future, after a great war has destroyed most of humanity.
Dead Block is set in 1950's USA, and the story of the game is that the «rock - n - roll» craze swept the country, which caused an apocalyptic musical plague to reanimate the dead.
When you're in this game, you can feel the story, the characters, and to a certain extent even believe that you are a part of this apocalyptic wasteland.
In a near - apocalyptic story such as this, having an unintentionally «dead feeling» city is a big setback.
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.
Bastion's story follows the Kid as he collects special shards of rock to power a structure, the Bastion, in the wake of an apocalyptic Calamity.
The Walking Dead Episode 1 is Telltale Games» attempt at telling a story in Robert Kirkman's popular apocalyptic zombified world, well the first part of a five part attempt anyway.
The post Apocalyptic themed, Naughty Dog developed action adventure The Last of Us is no longer coming in May and will arrive the following month, the... [Read full story]
The new Naughty Dog developed IP, set in a post apocalyptic, zombie... [Read full story]
Features: — post apocalyptic open world, which will immerse you in the atmosphere of the world that survived its end — diverse story missions and plenty optional additional jobs — intriguing comic story — variety of vehicles, from fast passenger to unstoppable truck — variety of weapons, designed for destroying your enemys and zombies — vehicle and weapon upgrade system — variety of enemys, among wich decayed corpses, selfish military and local bandits
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The game tells the story of the fearless mercenary and pirate Captain Zaron, who must save his sister Elsa from being sacrificed by an evil tyrant named Mulduralm in an ancient ritual that will herald an apocalyptic end to the entire kingdom.
Situated in an alternate history at the end of the Second World War, when Nazis managed to release a deadly virus over US territory, the game tells the story of two brothers and their intricate relation with the apocalyptic world rising in the leftovers of the Z0M81 Pandemic ravage.»
I'm expecting more back story, lots of cinematic scenes and plenty of survival mechanics in a apocalyptic world.
The mystery of the Kett is a fresh spin on the apocalyptic war of the original trilogy, and following the stories of people in the Heleus cluster often leads to surprising developments with tough decisions waiting at the end.
As the name implies, the new stories take place 400 days after the apocalyptic outbreak, and will be centered in and around a truck stop in Georgia.
This juried contest will examine work that is musically - inspired from a preview of one of the tracks featured on this release, Archive 01: Cognitive Architecture, as well as Giorgio Gigli's artist statement describing the Forgotten Stories Archives: «In a post apocalyptic world, a squad of heroes fight to save what remains of humanity.
Given the demonstrated improvement in air quality as opposed to apocalyptic projections of the past I hope readers keep that in mind when you hear current environmental doom and gloom stories.
So the media exaggerated the global cooling story in the past and gave us apocalyptic headlines to sell newspapers?
In between, they'll explore a post apocalyptic world, navigating through ruins, forests and mountains uncovering secrets to unravel new pieces to the story.