Sentence examples for the final catastrophe from inspiring English sources

Guardi captures this sense of life lived wildly on the edge of the final catastrophe.

But continuity is lacking, and the final catastrophe comes suddenly out of nowhere.

Various lords are played, when needed, by the singers; "Moro, lasso" ("I die, alas") is the refrain that runs like a sweet poison through the final catastrophe.

Unlike the inhabitants of Mount Olympus, the Norse gods whose murderous squabbles and vindictive wars bring about the final catastrophe "did not have faces, they were not persons".

I feel a sudden desire to absolve him, to take his place and say there has been an error, a mistaken identity — and so bring about the final catastrophe.

The sensational description of the final catastrophe involves the villain, the Egyptian Arbaces, who would certainly have a moustache to twirl if first-century fashion had allowed, being toppled by a statue of Augustus that itself has been struck by lightning.

It has sometimes been hard to remember that Mary Shelley's life continued for almost thirty years after that final catastrophe, extending well into the Victorian age.

The book's final catastrophe is set in motion by the Army's Jim Cracismyle randsm and its "unwritten law that no colored should ever be able to tell a white man what to do".

It is this particular act of blood loyalty that sets up the book's final catastrophe.

Evans believed that the populations of Greece had been ruled by the Minoans, that the Minoans had never ceased to tule at Knossos until a terrible final catastrophe overtook the palace of Minos, around 1400 B.C.

The final play, "Catastrophe," was written as a comment on totalitarianism and political martyrdom.