Sentences with phrase «of apocalyptic threats»

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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.

Paradoxically, the apocalyptic warning is intended to remove the apocalyptic threat by acts of apocalyptic transcendence.

The positive power of apocalyptic lies in its capacity to force humanity to face threats of

It may be that his reflections about the evil of the evolutionary viewpoint and the desirability of renewing the apocalyptic one constitute his reaction to what others are saying about the threat.

The precariousness of life, under threat from famine and plague as well as from war, was signalled in the apocalyptic feelings and expressions of the time.

So I try to put out of my mind the apocalyptic threats under which I live.

With the ecological crisis, the threat of nuclear war, and international monetary problems, everyone is thinking in apocalyptic terms — except the liberal, contented church, which long ago made its peace with the present and trusted in tomorrow.

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.

Most previous studies of apocalyptic astronomical events — like asteroid impacts, neighboring stars going supernova or insanely energetic explosions called gamma - ray bursts — focused on their threat to humankind.

I'd also like to compare it to dramas like TV's The Walking Dead or War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise in how a father has to fight for his family's survival in an almost apocalyptic environment against all odds and with his fellow humans being a bigger threat than just the situation itself.

Unlike the similar apocalyptic claustrophobia of last year's 10 Cloverfield Lane, the tension in It Comes at Night isn't based on whether the threat is real (that's made clear in the opening scene), but whether it can be kept at bay and who might be bringing it home.

While the other superhero films of 2016 dealt with apocalyptic threats and bad guys with grand, dastardly schemes, Deadpool kept things simple and restrained, and it was all the better for it.

The building phase is a case of rapidly prioritising the buildings and technologies that'll stop you from dying, but there's also the looming threat of a massive undead assault, with bigger and bigger waves of attackers until one final apocalyptic crowd of zombies tries to tear your settlement apart.

Apocalyptic scenes have played a major role in art throughout the centuries as means to point to the threat of evil.

From apocalyptic expectations in our present environmental, financial and political climate, this «threat» of proximity signifies the potential collision that reflects our changing ideology of past modernity, concerns and images.

Researchers who disagree with the government's apocalyptic manmade global warming theory have been subjected to hundreds of documented death threats.

In a December 4 address to the high - level segment of COP18, UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon spoke in apocalyptic terms of the «existential» threat to humanity and the planet posed by the «crisis» of climate change.