Sentence examples for cataclysmic time from inspiring English sources

The 2005 reboot saw the Timelord's home planet of Gallifrey destroyed in the cataclysmic Time War with the Daleks, with the Doctor having made the ultimate sacrifice to end it.

As the only child of the president of a great world power at a cataclysmic time, I will certainly be expected to make some comment on this man who will belong to history — to evoke him in special ways, available only to a daughter".

Having survived that most destructive, cataclysmic time (my father was evacuated at Dunkirk and ended the war liberating Arnhem) they wanted to do something positive, that would last.

For the sake of history it is good to know what actually happened during cataclysmic times.

My feeling is that we are living in cataclysmic times and that things are getting worse rather than better.

Less than a year after Americans paraded in the streets to celebrate victory in the Gulf War, the entire conflict, which appeared to cataclysmic at the time, is rapidly receeding from view.

And when this threat wanes, or simply starts to look more real and a lot less cataclysmic, it's time, of course, to bring out the next boogeyman.

For two countries that suffered cataclysmic blows this year, the time to visit – or to book a visit – is now.

In the end, what transformed the place of women in Britain was not "five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door" but the most cataclysmic event of the time, the First World War.

"Our house is on fire and we are arguing about who is more angry!" Vivid words and phrases were used to articulate the scale of the pending disaster that readers accused the presidential hopefuls of ignoring, such as "cataclysmic", "running out of time", "threat to human life", "path towards destruction", or in one particularly memorable remark: "slow-motion apocalypse".

I thought the notion of such a man a grossly under-qualified, emotionally unstable man charged with and championed for making sense of the world at this particular moment, despite the fact that he never saw, among many other things, the most cataclysmic event of our time coming, was fascinating.