The reaction to the auction and its contents has run the gamut from doomsday end-of-civilization laments and serves-you-right righteousness directed at the art world, to the crowning of Mr. Hirst as superartist and speaker of deep truths (mostly in the essays in Sotheby's lavish three-volume catalog), to complete indifference, feigned or otherwise, on the part of many dealers.
"Everybody talks about doomsday, the end of the world — apocalypse nonsense.
Without that money, legislators and city officials said, the city would resort to a doomsday plan and end after-school programs, severely curtail summer school programs and close city pools and as many as 40 firehouses.
The British comedian turned writer-director Joe Cornish is what you might call a doomsday optimist: The end is always nigh in his movies, but you still get the sense that the future remains in good hands.
Aum Supreme Truth, which practices forms of Buddhism and yoga and believes that the world is headed for doomsday toward the end of the century, claims 10,000 members in Japan and 30,000 in Russia.
Make sure not to tell your friends about a Doomsday or the End.
With this you simulate a never-ending doomsday zombie takeover as the civilians slowly get overwhelmed by the shifting monstrosities.
Sticking with death for the moment, you may recall reports of imminent doomsday due to the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012.
Thank goodness we'll all be wiped out by the Maya doomsday by week's end.
T. J. (King) Kong of the Air Force, that triggered the Doomsday Machine and the end of the world in "Dr. Strangelove".
They seemed to be well over some of the more bruising reviews they received after they first started recording and not terribly obsessed by all the debates about traditions, authenticity, and (the eternal doomsday subject) the possible end of jazz.
