Sentences with phrase «of apocalyptic war»

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron transports you to the final days of the planet Cybertron where you will experience the darkest hours of the apocalyptic war between the Autobots and Decepticons.

In a bid to fit into the timeline established by the G1 (Generation One) cartoons from the mid-to-late Eighties, Fall of Cybertron picks up from where War for Cybertron left off — it follows both Autobots and Decepticons in the last hours of the apocalyptic war on their home planet — and while the game didn't garner a lot of love in the GOTY lists, I found the storyline, combat variety and pacing to be a fantastic immersion into their world.

They're there to experiment with a prototype of a proton collider in the hopes of creating an un-depletable source of energy now that shortages on Earth below have put the planet on the brink of apocalyptic war and destruction.

As we have just seen, the predictions of apocalyptic war represent a reuse of the older war materials of the Old Testament.

And with the context of the apocalyptic war with the Soviet Union and of the Germans» already ongoing extermination of Soviet Jewry, it could have meant only one thing.

Not exact matches

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.

He examines the way that apocalyptic thinking has structured popular attitudes toward nuclear war, Israel, Russia, American foreign policy, the growth of government, and whatever was regarded at the moment as the Antichrist.

They said she confided in them three secrets - foretelling apocalyptic visions of hell, war, communism and the death of a pope - and urged them to pray for peace and a conversion away from sin.

The reason it survived after the Roman - Jewish War is that it existed outside of Palestine, throughout the Roman Empire, whereas Jesus» original following, a sect of apocalyptic Jews, was based in Jerusalem.

Seeming historical allusions have been variously identified with events in the history of the Middle East from the beginning of the Persian period down through the Maccabean Wars of the second century B.C. Happily, since the major thrust of Isaiah 24 - 27 is apocalyptic, the matter of date is not crucial.

The classical model of all apocalyptic may be found in Daniel 7 [see below]... it is only after a great war of destruction, a «Day of Yahweh» or day of the Great Judgment, that the dominion of God will begin.2

Prophecy is about sin and repentance, action and decision, here and now in the human situation; apocalyptic is about wars in heaven, divine actions and purposes, and events of a future beyond time.

«The apocalyptic end of the war» lay upon the church a responsibility to «preach to modern man the good news of possible salvation.»

The records of Israel's wars, which we surveyed in chapter 3, are extensive; the prophetic and apocalyptic predictions of war are equally extensive.

With regard to war, two factors prevented international conflict from being specifically dealt with in the New Testament as a pressing problem: the apocalyptic expectation of the world's immediate end, so that the gradual reform of social institutions was not in the picture, and the further fact that the first Christians had no responsibility for governmental policies or influence in determining them.

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.

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.

Working with Venezuela, neighboring countries or others that would be willing to provide safe passage to Qaddafi would be far preferable than the apocalyptic endgame that the regime might otherwise pursue for lack of alternatives... Threatening al - Qaddafi with war crimes prosecutions today may create perverse incentives with little strategic benefit.

The exhibition cleverly skips smoothly through loose themes like war, enemies within, public health — the apocalyptic anti-AIDS television campaigns are certainly worth watching — all the way to a giant, rather menacing Twitter aggregator, demonstrating how we are now the authors of our own propaganda, buying into an online narrative, but also creating a new narrative.

On television Africa is either a game park or an apocalyptic vision of famine and civil war.

A new analysis of various apocalyptic scenarios suggests that we may be able to detect distant worlds where life has been wiped out by nuclear war or nanotechnology run amok.

Waves of startling action counterbalance standard one - man - saves - the - day Hollywood heroics in World War Z, an immersive apocalyptic spectacle that tosses the viewer into the deep end of a global zombie uprising and doesn't let up until close to the end.

In a visually sumptuous journey through the master's imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes.

The survivors of the 4th World War band together to rebuild their own cities while bandits, murderers and thugs roam the wasteland to find their next victims - Goodman Town is the crown jewel of this apocalyptic wasteland...

Some of the gaming world's biggest franchises take advantage of an apocalyptic setting, just look at Fallout, Left 4 Dead, and Advance Wars.

War rode proud and strong through the battle between good and evil in the original Darksiders, but he's only one of four apocalyptic horsepersons of interest.

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.

The choreography of this sequence astounds me, with Max coming across Furiosa and the wives as they wash off in the sun and she tries to get the War Rig going again after it's been choked in the apocalyptic dust storm that preceded it.

Either way, the monumentally successful «Star Wars» has to make do with a handful of technical categories, while George Miller's critically beloved but hardly box - office shattering apocalyptic adventure has snagged Best Picture and Director nods among a total of ten nominations.

Some of you may have seen his first two features — the teen - drama / time - travel film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the techno - apocalyptic dysfunctional family dramedy Summer Wars — but the director tops himself with his third and latest film Wolf Children, a stunningly beautiful, unabashedly sentimental, and surprisingly complex story that works as both a coming - of - age film and a study of the trials of being a single mother.

Whatever apocalyptic associations its title may generate, «Captain America: Civil War» turns out to be an infinitely smarter piece of multiplex mythmaking, blessed as it is with a new villain (played with unnerving subtlety by Daniel Bruhl) who has more on his mind than blowing human civilization to smithereens.

But fears of losing a culture war can stoke «apocalyptic» feelings on the right.

In coming weeks, the two theatres will present John Ford's atmospheric Eugene O'Neill adaptation The Long Voyage Home, with cinematography by Gregg Toland and Swedish accent by John Wayne, Anthony Mann's apocalyptic Korean War drama Men in War, J.L. Anderson's Spring Night, Summer Night, Adolphe Menjou in the fast - paced pre-Code comedy Bachelor's Affairs and Erich von Stroheim in The Crime of Dr. Crespi.

Set in 1991 amidst the beginnings of civil war in Yugoslavia, this is a brutal film, in every right way: an antidote to the CNN - ification of war news, here is a frank, realistic depiction of total, practically apocalyptic war, one in which civilians and journalists are targeted and an entire nation is laid ruin.

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.

We do not mean to be Apocalyptic, but, in the catalog of wars launched by states and of examples of dysfunctional management of our global ecology, we should also include the social wars that have broken out more or less openly, revealing an almost permanent demonstration of exclusion and of economic and social inequalities in the low - income districts of towns, both large and small, in every continent.

Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's fascinating literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals.

In «Indoctrination,» a shadowy terrorist is convincing others to kill the family members of elected representatives in hopes of bring on an apocalyptic war that will cleanse the Earth, but two flawed, deeply damaged FBI agents stand in his way.

In popular culture, there have been positive depictions of robots and artificial intelligence, such as in Star Wars and Star Trek, and there have been the not - so - positive — even apocalyptic — machine scenarios of The Terminator, The Matrix, and the revised Battlestar Galactica saga.

So Mad Max (an apocalyptic and brutal wasteland), Danganronpa (a series about kids being forced to kill each other) and Metal Gear Solid V (the story of a war hero turned criminal) are childish?

With Chinese architecture and apocalyptic damage, it resembles something out of a Gears of War trip to China.

In preparation for E3 — which, by the way, kicks of in just over a week now — High Moon Studios released this new trailer for their upcoming take on the apocalyptic frenzy between Autobots and Decepticons that is Transformers: War for Cybertron.

Set in a depressingly apocalyptic future, Armored Core V has humanity waging war with all manner of weaponry but the most lethal of these are the newly discovered Armored Cores; mecha dug up from deep underground that retro - actively antiquate all modern day warfare.

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.

Fight your way across the chemical - blasted wastes of Nu - Earth - a planet ravaged by an endless apocalyptic war — in search of the Traitor General... and payback!

Many a game has pit its hero against an alien race in a post apocalyptic world, but Gears Of War does it so much better.

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.»

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.

On the rare occasion that you can distinguish figures in these pictures, they are fleeting, ghosts of an altogether more optimistic past: namely, the era prior to the outbreak of Algeria's apocalyptic civil war in 1991.

A set of toggle switches labeled «guns» and «bombs» tempt the spectator to convert the gallery into an apocalyptic control room from which to wage an invisible war.