"It's like one of those apocalyptic movies on Channel 11 that you watch on a hot day, like 'Soylent Green' or 'The Omega Man,' " Mr. Baitz said by phone.
Grant's experiences seemed to veer between calm, psychotropic lessons in life and the kind of nightmarish horror trips the police tend to describe when they come to your school for one of those apocalyptic drug talks.
I kind of like those apocalyptic practices.
The direct inspirations are the [George] Romero trilogy -- Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead -- and then a lot of those post-apocalyptic films: Escape from New York, Planet of the Apes, Damnation Alley.
Against the determinism both of those who believe in progress and of the apocalyptics, Calvin erects his utopia of the present, founded on the subject's perceptive faculties.
More respectably, Bob Herbert invokes Katrina as a sign of the apocalyptic state of our infrastructure.
It offered a quiescent alternative to the radical millennialism of the apocalyptic prophets, and it would become more plausible with the passing of each failed apocalyptic episode.
Parkin stated that the quests "can seem trivial under the eye of the apocalyptic clock".
Most of the apocalyptic visions of 2012 presented on the Internet are found on YouTube.
One of the significant benefits of Pagels's book is its demonstration of the unpredictability of apocalyptic politics.
