Sentences with phrase «like apocalyptic»

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Nathan Russell: Well I think like any apocalyptic metaphor requires a cataclysmic event.

For instance, he doesn't go on science sites, imply that everyone is dishonest and generally act like an Apocalyptic Troll.

She's giving us something more like an apocalyptic version of polymorphic perversity, a shot of the libidinal pleasure the art world so loves along with a series of fast, repeat jabs to the head it deserves.

Critics are already taking note, including a glowing review by Holland Cotter for The New York Times, in which he declares, «[Wangechi's] giving us something more like an apocalyptic version of polymorphic perversity, a shot of the libidinal pleasure the art world so loves along with a series of fast, repeat jabs to the head it deserves.»

Rail: Two years ago, I had a conversation here at Marie Walsh Sharpe open studios with Katy Siegel about her book Since» 45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art, and at one point she talked about the theme ofblack and white, which refers to different things, like the apocalyptic light of Protestant Evangelical ecstasy, the American gothic, the strong sun of the Southwest that creates blinding light and casts deep shadows, and above all the issue of race — the obsession of writers like Melville and Faulkner.

This is a really interesting series if you like apocalyptic fiction.

The rest of the film plays like an apocalyptic thriller, with lust, faith, family and ash swirling into a vortex.

In a year that has consistently felt like an apocalyptic black comedy, albeit one that is no laughing matter, the greatest films have served as an anchor of sanity.

On the other hand, the danger of big, headline - grabbing threats has been ameliorated to a limited extent — but these threats, like dirty bombs or bioterrorism, have always been inherently unlikely to come to pass on anything like the apocalyptic scale feared by some.

What sounds like an apocalyptic vision of the future for the world's tropical corals is in fact a chilling assessment of the current state of reefs built in cooler waters by oysters and other bivalve shellfish.

The holiday season is fast approaching, bringing the dark clouds of holiday shopping with them like some apocalyptic horseman.

Like the apocalyptic writings of New Testament times, it has stretched the imagination and inspired great confidence in the future.

«Detroit feels like the apocalyptic future that some cities will face if they continue to keep growing.

Not exact matches

He has spoken out against A.I. throughout the last several years, sometimes describing apocalyptic scenarios in which even seemingly harmless technology, like a system used to pick strawberries, can have catastrophic outcomes for humans.

Despite the apocalyptic language, media heads like Weisberg and Remnick cautioned reporters and readers on Thursday not let succumb to total despair.

In September 2016, Musk first revealed his plan to send people to Mars in case of an apocalyptic disaster, like a nuclear war, on Earth.

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

Even in a song like «Ruby's Arms,» about a tough soldier crumbling under the weight of apocalyptic sadness, there's a sliver of hope.

Apocalyptic literature is like that.

The respected Christian apologist and author, C.S. Lewis 1960 essay «The Worlds Last Night» «Say what you like,» we shall be told, «the apocalyptic beliefs of the first Christians have been proved to be false.

John Paul is apocalyptic, obsessed with martyrdom and with the Virgin Mary, and, worst of all, self - important: «The pope himself seems to think the whole church depends on him — on his being saved by the Virgin of Fatima, on his living into the new millennium, on his visiting every Marian shrine, on his Stakhanovite canonizing, on his re-definitions of every truth, on his creating a like - minded episcopate....

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

In view of the importance we attached to our discussion of the Son of man concept in ancient Jewish apocalyptic, above, we would like to point out that Colpe accepts the German contention that such a concept is to be found, but finds that the existing sources (Daniel, I Enoch, IV Ezra 13) are inadequate to present it to us.

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.

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

I also don't like the sense that for those Evangelicals, we're a means to an apocalyptic end.

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.

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.

This apocalyptic sense of dreadful things to come hangs over Nietzsche's thinking like a thundercloud.

angel, open, number, lamb, star, book, thunder, dragon (snake), seven, animal, beast, throne, horse, smoke, white, great, repent, temple, conquer, like, wear (clothing), blow («plague»), gate, fire, blow (trumpet), mouth, seal, four, third, vial, voice, thousand, and gold — all of them characteristic of apocalyptic - symbolic writing.

We didn't understand that when we read ancient Hebrew prose poems (like Genesis 1), wisdom literature (like Proverbs), or apocalyptic literature (like Revelation) as if they were science textbooks, we were actually obscuring their meaning.»

As W. Sibley Towner of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia has stated, «Far from being an extraordinary ideal, shalom is the norm which is to be contrasted to the extraordinary out - of - orderness of warfare, disease, and the like» («Tribulations and Peace: The Fate of Shalom in Jewish Apocalyptic,» Horizons in Biblical Theology, vol.

One can well imagine a wisdom teacher like Jesus, son of Sirach, having much the same attitude towards those of his fellow Jews who were fascinated by apocalyptic, as an orthodox churchman today may feel towards some of the stranger Christian sects.

We often think of the Revelation as a quite unique book with nothing else like it; but it is of the first importance to remember that in fact the Revelation is the one representative in the NT of a type of literature called apocalyptic literature which was very common between the Testaments and in NT times.

The biblical writers were fallible persons like ourselves and could have made mistakes, the more probably because current Jewish thought was full of apocalyptic imagery.

Like the robust faith of the New Testament, this kind of affective Christianity embraces the charismatic, the visionary, and the apocalyptic.

7:13 f. there is an account of the appearance in the apocalyptic vision of one «like unto a son of man.»

For those (like me) who grew up in conservative evangelical culture, Chick Tracts are instantly recognizable: the dark, apocalyptic artwork; the obscure human caricatures that somehow resemble everybody and nobody.

The notion of victory in warfare, like the ideas of an apocalyptic triumph, seems to have meaning only within the historical contexts which produce them.

Knowing things like the parallelism of Hebrew poetry, the ancient letter form, and the characteristics of apocalyptic literature would help us receive the books that biblical authors actually wrote.

First of all, I would like to point out what seems to me the logical conclusion of Altizer's contention that tradition must follow the movement of energy beyond every particular form, in the direction of an apocalyptic identity of opposites in which God will be all in all.

For some time now many scientists, even and perhaps especially those connected to the climate alarmism movement, have worried about the exaggerations and downright apocalyptic scenarios which have come out of the writings of some of their scientific colleagues like James Hansen or James Lovelock,....

So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report» Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»

Eire's final chapter on the great Reformer is headed «Luther the reactionary» and deals with Luther's violent repudiation of the apocalyptic radicalism of former disciples like Andreas Karlstadt and Thomas Müntzer, and especially with the Wittenbergers» savage reaction to the Peasants» Revolt of 1525.

Or perhaps, as some exegetes have argued, Jesus is suggesting a more eschatological success: Simon and his mates will pull the nets for the great apocalyptic catch, they will sit to cull the bad from the good, they will be like the angels or the courtiers of God's kingdom rather than part of the teeming masses to be judged.

How about the marvelous apocalyptic novels by Michael D. O'Brien (published by Ignatius), which, like LaHaye, purport to give plausible scenarios for end «time events?

If you'd like to continue this conversation, especially if you are a fellow proponent of «sane eschatology» (the opposite of Hal Lindsey's apocalyptic literalism), please write to me at my email address: [email protected].

The world constituted for us by this mode of experience «is in fact a secondary meta - world, in other words, a world which, in itself and in its deepest reality, bears the deep impression of many systems and theories and which can therefore only be experienced and possibly changed in and through these systems and theories».8 It is clear that Metz would like to overcome this evolutionary world and replace it, at least for Christians, by the apocalyptic one.