apocalyptic terms
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apocalyptic
adjective
uk/əˌpɒk.əˈlɪp.tɪk/us/əˌpɑː.kəˈlɪp.t̬ɪ.k/
showing or describing the total destruction and end of the world, or extremely bad ...
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term
noun
uk/tɜːm/us/tɝːm/
the fixed period of time that something ...
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He thus constructed a position that allowed him to condemn extremes in apocalyptic terms, but it was a stance that has confused later commentators.
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A journalist depicted the rise of such entrepreneurs in apocalyptic terms.
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Certainly, this was a critical context many times perceived in apocalyptic terms.
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That these interests were expressed in apocalyptic terms shows the survival of this thought as a significant mode of voicing political and religious disaffection into the early 1690s.
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They have no proposals: they refer to the issue in apocalyptic terms but then duck it.
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I am also acutely aware of the danger of describing the issues in excessively apocalyptic terms.
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However, economists have been predicting that kind of shock for some considerable time, some of them in apocalyptic terms.
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That is the budget that we are talking about in such apocalyptic terms.
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The atmosphere between the institutions is not exactly sweetness and light the whole time, but for all that, to talk immediately in such apocalyptic terms does not help one bit.
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I have also heard some of the fears that have been expressed about the agreement; and the same fears have been expressed elsewhere in more apocalyptic terms.
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The paranoid spokesman, sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values.
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