Sentence examples for it cataclysmic from inspiring English sources

But Powell understands that everything in the apparently eternal fastness of the canyonlands is shifting -- some of it imperceptibly, like the uplift of mountain ranges, and some of it cataclysmic, like the flash floods that engorge the Colorado.

"Was it cataclysmic subsidence or was it gradual?" Herakleion was the site of temples for Hercules -- described by the Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in 450 B.C. -- and other gods including Serapis, a sun god, Isis the life-giver and Anubis, the god of the dead with the head of a jackal.

At the time--on my first big trip alone, never having stepped foot in California or seen the Pacific Ocean -- it was cataclysmic, since it meant I'd arrive too late to meet a friend who'd offered up his couch.

By now surely the outline is clear: how hatred of Jews grew out of early Christianity's attempts to supplant Judaism; how the demonization of Jews in the Middle Ages turned violent; how the hatred was given its name by a 19th-century German journalist; and how it reached cataclysmic fulfillment in the Holocaust.

"It was cataclysmic," Nichols says.

It witnessed cataclysmic lava flows, spawned the dinosaurs, lifted up the Rockies, encased the Northern Hemisphere in continental glaciers and, toward the end, gave rise to modern human culture.

"It's cataclysmic for the phone guys, who were used to playing golf on Wednesday afternoons," said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, a research firm.

"Distrust," he said, "is not incremental; it's cataclysmic".

The week after the 2015 election, when Corbyn was still a little-known backbencher, Labour MP Jon Trickett called it a "cataclysmic decline" and accused his colleagues of "fundamentally failing to understand why the Labour Party exists".

This at least felt as if it had something cataclysmic about it.

"It's a cataclysmic event - it doesn't work for fast radio burst repeaters," he says.