Sentence examples for terrible cataclysm from inspiring English sources

The country seems to be trembling at the edge of a terrible cataclysm or, for the hopeful, an inspiring transformation.

Rilke, with his youthful anxiety, found Paris to be "rushing headlong out of orbit, like a planet, toward some terrible cataclysm".

Can one only confront some terrible atrocity or cataclysm by coming at it from an angle, at any rate one in which the form can sometimes seem to take over from the content?

I'm not sure, though, that the persistently terrible economy is not the "huge cataclysm" for which he's looking.

We are in the midst of a cataclysm and part of that terrible legacy is that we have lost much freedom of action and the ability to implement dynamic change both attributes of which are needed.

It doesn't ignite a cataclysm, and that gives it its terrible power.

"You know the American industry is in a terrible state and I think it will reach a point of cataclysm fairly soon if they are not careful.

Pima wants to humanely finish her off, because the cataclysm Nita could bring down on them is all too terrible.