Sentences with phrase «with apocalyptic»

It manipulated voters with apocalyptic attack ads and smeared Kenyatta's opponent Raila Odinga as violent, corrupt and dangerous,» Kenyan journalist Larry Madowo concluded in a furious op - ed for The Washington Post.

It's a partnership between studio Wevr and musician Arjan van Meerten, pairing a thudding musical composition by van Meerten with apocalyptic scenes that suggest both destruction and rebirth.

There are recently published macro studies like Max Tegmark's Life 3.0 which opens with an apocalyptic (fictional) vision of a dystopian future from w which we are to be (putatively) saved by the (real) intervention of such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking to support the work... Continue reading Artificial Intelligence, Legal Services and Justice →

We're putting all our eggs in one basket staying on this planet while dealing with an apocalyptic scenario (which I presumed was what diogenes was talking about).

If the world does indeed find itself unprepared to deal with apocalyptic warming (looking more vanishingly unlikely by the month), then I maintain they have no one to blame but themselves...

One of the harshest charges against fracking, often leveled with apocalyptic intensity by its foes, is that it indiscriminately contaminates vital drinking water supplies.

Initially, I set out looking for flood maps of the entire Eastern Seaboard with apocalyptic illustrations of the Atlantic crashing against the foothills of the Appalachians.

The Australian might quibble with the apocalyptic overtones of this group's campaign but it is impossible to deny the logic.

Forty - two percent (42 %) disagree with this apocalyptic forecast, while 22 % are not sure.

The problem is that this science is much newer even than climate change, has even less certainty and is as much infused with apocalyptic visions of future states.

I think the word «cult» is critical — so much of the language around climate change is charged with apocalyptic tones strongly reminiscent of millenarian cults.

Nye hits his nadir in a desert meeting with an apocalyptic ecologist, Guy McPherson, who has built something of an «End of Days» following through his prediction that the human race will be gone by 2030.

Around 1980 Morris returned to painting and drawing, with an apocalyptic vision of the modern world as displayed in his Firestorm series.

The narrative of An Answer, begins with myths of classical antiquity, moves towards Renaissance intellectual history, modernity, and, ends finally, with an apocalyptic time beyond our time where that dripping paint has become the form of trees and archways.

The sooty streaks that comprise the paintings» grounds tinge the works with an apocalyptic mood that is all the more unnerving for its strange beauty.

Brought together under a vaguely literary pretext with apocalyptic undertones, some of the works assembled in Metro Pictures summer group show «A New Ballardian Vision» are nevertheless worth a visit.

These monochrome images are painstakingly rendered in coloured pencil, recalling early natural history illustrations but inscribed with an apocalyptic presence.

Leonardo drew them toward the end of his life, when his head was filled with apocalyptic visions of torrential floods destroying whole towns and even mountains.

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.»

● Apocalypse Pack - The Apocalypse Pack features three new character skins, reimagining characters Takeda, D'Vorah and Erron Black with an apocalyptic theme.

And then came the Russian tidal wave, with its apocalyptic armada and its triumphant massiveness.

Especially inspiring was Robert Slater, who had a great success with his apocalyptic YA novel All Is Silence, said Village Books general manager Paul Hanson.

About the Author: J.B. Simmons writes thrillers with an apocalyptic twist, and political philosophy clothed in fantasy.

To date, I've written novels with the apocalyptic Horseman Pestilence as the hero.

Released in tandem with a film of the same name (like Purple Rain) and with music that engages with apocalyptic politics without undermining the party (like 1999), it's a pop - culture salvo that's rooted in the present while recognizing and building on the past.

Is society's obsession with apocalyptic movies, video games, music and media a dangerous thing?

Nichols and Shannon worked together again in Take Shelter, an eerie domestic tale with an apocalyptic edge, and in Mud, a modern, Huckleberry Finn - style boys» adventure.

Bellflower (Director & Screenwriter: Evan Glodell)-- A ballad for every person who has ever loved and lost — with enough violence, weapons, action and sex to tell a love story with apocalyptic stakes.

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.

So are we looking at another «Nick & Norah» but with an apocalyptic bent, or something more akin to, say, Don McKellar «s «Last Night ``?

Cloverfield's monster rampage may have ended with apocalyptic levels of destruction... but that doesn't mean all of the movie's characters actually died.

Dawn of the Dead opens gangbusters, its prologue — which segues into a title montage scored just right to Johnny Cash tune — the most nihilistic - feeling bit of cinema I've seen since the first broadcast of The Day After, and right in line with our apocalyptic cinema environment.

Even in Take Shelter, his more fantastically themed thriller about a man with apocalyptic visions, his style was closer to Terrence Malick than anyone else.

Goodman will also be headlining VALENCIA, a claustrophobic thriller with apocalyptic overtones from J.J.Abrams» Bad Robot Stable.

It's a film from whose nihilism I would've recoiled just a few years ago, but now I see that as perhaps the definitive trend of the first six years of this brave new world (first five after 9/11, the inciting event of this love affair with apocalyptic cultural reset) and not entirely divorced from our reality besides.

There is perhaps no director working today as dependably capable of throwing strikes as Linklater, and his trip down memory lane (he was a college pitcher himself) is the perfect antidote to a film industry increasingly obsessed with apocalyptic mega blockbusters.

As far as the CGI work, it's something we have come to expect from this franchise, but the work is seamless in this film, as well; and with apocalyptic conflicts going on — with half of the city of Chicago destroyed — the graphics department acquitted themselves nicely.

The Canadian director and writer returns for double - duty again with the apocalyptic sibling drama «Into the Forest.»

I couldn't help but think that the way Lifeforce was combining science fiction with the supernatural with apocalyptic elements that it was just a ripoff of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.

Often described with apocalyptic terms by the media, what you've just experienced is a haboob, a type of dust storm.

The Tories responded immediately to Corbyn's win with apocalyptic warnings that the nation's security, economy and even the family itself were under threat.

All these terms, Son of man, Messiah, Kingdom of God, had for his hearers a connection with the apocalyptic expectation of the time, based largely on the teaching of a number of current apocalyptic books, such as the Books of Daniel and Enoch, and exemplified in the teaching of John the Baptist that one mightier than he was about to come,

His familiarity with apocalyptic literature (reference to the Assumption of Moses in verse 9, to I Enoch in verses 14 - 15) explains his repeated use of the expression «these» (8, 10, 12, 16, 19).

It is to be remembered that Christianity began with an apocalyptic proclamation of the end of history, one which dominated the earliest Christian communities, and one which was renewed at each of the great crises or turning points of Christian history, just as it was renewed in each of our great modern political revolutions, and equally if not more deeply renewed in the advent of our deepest modern thinking and imaginative vision.

As with any event with apocalyptic connotations, the conspiracy theorists and associated vultures gather round.

7.13 in connection with eschatological expectation does not end with the apocalyptic literature, but continues into the talmudic and midrashic tradition, where it is also used in connection with the Messiah.

And as she grew frustrated with the apocalyptic speculation still surrounding the secrets of Fatima, we enjoyed some unexpected ecumenical kinship: The end times obsession that plagues Evangelicals has its Catholic equivalent as well.

The most important change of view has come in connection with the apocalyptic Son of man sayings.

Wow, so he predicted people would not argree with his apocalyptic ramblings and labeled those who would not believe him in the future «evil»... you do realize that is right out of the manual of any apocalyptic cult and is not impressive in the least.

Indeed, the basic concerns of dispensationalist popularizers are not all that far removed from the popular Roman Catholic fascination with the apocalyptic themes associated with, say, the Fatima prophecies.