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  • I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.

    Ebola   Needs   Stunning  
    CDC Telebriefing in West Africa, www.cdc.gov. September 2, 2014.
  • I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.

    Thinking   Mad   Max  
  • If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.

  • I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little pre-apocalyptic timebubble wants to be labelled "sad" - it's like being officially declared worthless by the state. So we muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions.

    Fun   Clubs   Want  
    Charlie Brooker (2009). “The Hell of it All”, p.3, Faber & Faber
  • Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

    Race   Class   Zombie  
  • This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast.

    Country   Ebola   Cities  
    "Liberia Doctors Strike, U.N. Warns Of Food Shortages Due To Ebola" by James Harding Giahyue, www.businessinsider.com. September 2, 2014.
  • If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.

    Angel   Dark   Keys  
    "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 5, p. 177, 1955 - 1975.
  • Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially Germany and Russia, both of which defined themselves as messianic nations. In both countries too, secular elites delved deeply into apocalyptic and prophetic ideas, giving their nations a millenarian bent.

    Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.
  • The U.S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U.S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.

    Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.
  • And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

  • My looks had gone from well-kempt cheerleader to apocalyptic disasterpiece.

    Kresley Cole (2013). “Poison Princess”, p.136, Simon and Schuster
  • When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.

    Crazy   Israel   People  
    Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.
  • Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

    "Another American Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola in West Africa" by Sydney Lupkin, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2014.
  • So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

    Kids   Scare   Done  
    "Interview: Joe Dante on the horrors of 'The Hole'". www.mtv.com. September 27, 2012.
  • Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie.

    Cities   Snow   Pussy  
    "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.
  • Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

    Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.206, Penguin UK
  • Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a $1.35 trillion cut, but in reality it's going to be closer to costing $1.8 trillion. Critics claim it's math so fuzzy, you have to squint to see our nation's future of subsistence farming and post-apocalyptic roving motorcycle gangs.

    Cutting   Math   Reality  
  • Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

    Mean   Simple   Roots  
    Lewis Hyde (2010). “Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art”, p.432, Macmillan
  • For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.

    Running   Dog   Eye  
    "Florence and the Machine's 'GMA' Concert: Five Fun Florence Facts" by Katie Kindelan, abcnews.go.com. June 24, 2011.
  • I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

    "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.
  • Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it.

    Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.478, Head of Zeus
  • ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West.

    War   Winning   Isis  
    Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com
  • The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

    War   Our World   Cold  
  • She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.

    Mother   Wall   Fate  
  • The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

  • If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

    "Briefwechsel". "Briefwechsel" by Johann Georg Hamann, 1955-1975.
  • Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.

    Girl   Fun   Crazy  
  • The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.

    "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult". www.truth-out.org. September 3, 2011.
  • Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things.

  • The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.

    Song   Water   Phases  
    Source: www.thedailybeast.com
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