Sentences with phrase «of apocalyptic disasters»

According to some Christian leaders at the time, all signs pointed to Christ's second coming — and with that, something called the rapture where all Christians disappear, leaving everyone else to face a host of apocalyptic disasters.

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.

In 2012, the artist Loretta Fahrenholz convened with a dance crew on the streets of the Rockaways and East New York to improvise a film collaboration, and they hit upon the idea of an apocalyptic disaster movie.

About Blog A group of people who want to inform, prepare and train others in case of apocalyptic disaster.

Not exact matches

The past few months, with a series of disasters seemingly one on top of another, have felt apocalyptic to many, but the bright side to these dark times has been the outpouring of donations and acts of generosity that followed.

Journalists have lately been writing about the Watergate syndrome in almost apocalyptic terms: as not merely the worst political disaster in U.S. history but also the nemesis of U.S. world power and effective leadership in government at home.

Apparently there are two thoughts as to how devistation will come to us in the near future: Apocalyptic disaster brought forth by the grace of God, or climate data which has been continually compiled and interpreted by climate scientists since the 1960s.

Not only have natural disasters such as earthquakes occurred; atrocities of apocalyptic dimensions have been committed by the so - called civilized nations.

Maelstrom takes place on the devastated future Earth of 2040 where an alien invasion has triggered an apocalyptic ecological disaster.

The forces bedeviling these families vary in nature — an apocalyptic disaster in «Time of the Wolf,» inexplicable suicidal urges in «The Seventh Continent,» memories of past transgressions in «Caché» — but see enough of them and you will soon realize that every tormentor is a front for Haneke himself.

Initially oblivious to what is happening in the outside world (with the exception of Rogen and Baruchel who briefly exit the party), it some becomes clear to everyone that an apocalyptic disaster is happening before their very eyes.

Southland Tales (R for sexuality, profanity, violence and drug use) Futuristic apocalyptic epoch, set in a Los Angeles which is a police state and on the brink of economic and environmental disaster in the wake of a nuclear attack on Texas.

In the tradition of KFC's Famous Bowl — famously described by Patton Oswalt as «a failure pile» — comes Geostorm, which attempts to be every possible apocalyptic weather - based disaster movie at once.

For the last century, filmmakers have explored countless apocalyptic scenarios on screen, with everything from natural disasters (2012) to planetary collisions (Melancholia), and technological advancement (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) to nuclear warfare (The Sum of All Fears) seen as catalysts for the destruction of humanity.

Disaster flicks, most of them apocalyptic and fantastical, are usually laced with cheap thrills and mediocre acting.

Prehistory (Rock, fun, Primal) Antiquity (Synthesized, adventurous, Magical) Middle Ages (Natural, Worldly, Gentle) Present (Jazz, Soulful, Dance) Apocalyptic Future (Metal, Destruction, Dramatic) These eras cover a wide swath of genres and feature performances from a diverse range of talent including: Stemage (Metroid Metal), CarboHydroM (Extra Credits), professional composers Alexander Brandon and Dale North, William Carlos Reyes and Tim Yarbrough (The OneUps), and VGM cover bands Arc Impulse, Super Soul Bros., Videri String Quartet, Descendants of Erdrick, Eight Bit Disaster, Super Guitar Bros., Marshall Art, and MANY MORE.

The new Tate Modern installation involves a gigantic replica of a Louise Bourgeois spider, rows of bleak metal bunk beds with paperback science fiction novels laid out on them, and a screen showing a montage of disaster and apocalyptic footage.

The show, based around a film shot on drone in Qatar, examines the idea of «disaster capitalism» encoded into the shopping malls of the world, taking inspiration from the apocalyptic science fiction of JG Ballard.

I have the ultimate solution: invent a timemachine, so that prior to an apocalyptic disaster all of humanity collectively zap back or forward to another point in time.

Shrouds are waved, apocalyptic predictions portentously made, every minor unusual occurrence seized upon as yet another foretaste of the coming disaster.

Wright is very convincing on the fact that apocalyptic language of disaster — the sun and moon falling into the sea, all that kind of thing — was never intended to be about the end of the space - time universe (as has often been assumed by later generations) but is a metaphor for forthcoming socio - political change and tumult.

Efforts to use climate science to threaten an apocalyptic future should we fail to embrace green proposals, and to characterize present - day natural disasters as terrifying previews of an impending day of reckoning, have only served to undermine the credibility of both climate science and progressive energy policy.

But the many sober - minded scientists I interviewed over the past several months — the most credentialed and tenured in the field, few of them inclined to alarmism and many advisers to the IPCC who nevertheless criticize its conservatism — have quietly reached an apocalyptic conclusion, too: No plausible program of emissions reductions alone can prevent climate disaster.

If you want disaster movie scenarios I read one version of what might have happened at the Permian extinction that was truly apocalyptic.