The implication was that the Hilltop exists as a kind of organised denial of the harsher realities of post-apocalyptic life.
We'll be forced into such behavior because the television executives who are preparing us for post-apocalyptic life have foreseen that none of our canned goods will survive the cataclysm.
And, obviously, post-apocalyptic life is not ideal – no one wants to live in a Cormac McCarthy novel, surrounded by people who go on and on about their dreams in unpunctuated sentences.
When I moved to Los Angeles, I never anticipated that, in a place of perfect weather and easy access to a Target that isn't post-apocalyptic, my life would feel so bleak.
Dustin Kensrue, Thrice's lyricist, sings about the meaning of life, apocalyptic visions and the struggle for faith.
The powerful antisexuality of the early Christians (note that neither God nor Christ has a wife and that marriage does not exist in heaven) was in part due to their apocalyptic vision of life: they anticipated that the end of the world and the Last Judgment would soon be upon them.
Post-Apocalyptic Angels Comes to Life with 3D Projections.
VFX artists are the unsung heroes of Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros. Pictures), tirelessly erasing the safety equipment that makes stunts possible and compositing the mountains and set pieces that bring the post-apocalyptic wasteland to life.
There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of apocalypse stories: post-apocalyptic ones, in which life goes on after the apocalypse, and finally apocalyptic stories, in which nothing else goes on ever again.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust had no apparent problems with Roland Emmerich's previous movies about genocidal space aliens, apocalyptic solar flares and life in prehistoric times.
It could be something as small as a "Hope your OK" text, which will send me spiralling into apocalyptic visions of a life without apostrophes or question marks.
