History and prehistory are littered with thresholds breached, from the degeneration of the Fertile Crescent into today's desertified Middle East (probably due to mismanagement of irrigation, says Daily) to the deforestation, extinction of all wild land birds, and human population collapse on Easter Island.
Remove Mastroianni from "La Dolce Vita" and you get a circus without a ringmaster — the acrobats and other human beasts collapsing into clownish disarray.
Waves from the explosion, especially in enclosed places like buses or restaurants, reverberate violently through the human body, collapsing lungs, breaking small bones and destroying internal organs.
Eventually, these humans either collapse dead of overwork or kill themselves in a final submission to the Masters that is called "Happy Release".
Ironically, Communism, which is based on the theory that the economy is the basis of all human activity, collapsed for economic reasons.
The Old Man of the Mountain, a landmark on Cannon Mountain consisting of a rock outcropping that resembled a human face, collapsed in 2003.
New Jersey's commissioner of human services collapsed in a bathroom at the State House Annex yesterday afternoon, moments after he left a legislative budget hearing where he had been called to testify.
No one can answer this question with certainty, but we do know that earlier human societies collapsed when faced with other kinds of profound changes in climate.
Because prayer is perhaps the single most communicative gesture a person may enact, encompassing, as it does, all the hopes and wishes, all the longings and desires, of the entire human race, collapsed into the feeling and utterance of private or public begging.
