Sentence examples for vision of catastrophe from inspiring English sources

"Contagion" — A businesslike, unexaggerated vision of catastrophe.

The film is solemn, compelling and almost apocalyptic in its vision of catastrophe averted, which is perhaps not surprising coming from the Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim, who made "An Inconvenient Truth," about global warming, and "Waiting for Superman," about the failure of the American education system.

The drill is also being planned as conferences, studies and even works of fiction are raising near-apocalyptic visions of catastrophes involving the grid.

This movie is operatic, crepuscular, portentous, a vision of apocalyptic catastrophe – and there are some great things in it.

Their talk is punctuated, however, by a series of monologues in which Mrs Jarrett, against a sizzling electrified frame, delivers a vision of global catastrophe.

Her later novels reveal what the academy called a preoccupation with "vision of global catastrophe forcing mankind to return to a more primitive life".

The flimsy sets, flagrant acting, perfunctory staging, and hectic montage of stock footage convey a frenzied vision of cosmic catastrophe that comes to life only in the awesomely silly special effect of a flying saucer aflame in the night sky.

Aspects of it remain difficult but, watching the magnetic Maxine Peake in a magnificent Royal Exchange production for the Manchester international festival, it becomes clear that the play offers, among other things, a vision of climate catastrophe we can all understand.

It's matched by Waititi's mighty, gothic vision of astronomical catastrophe that seems like a visual translation of heavy metal (Thor's hair band), and also a timely setup for a sequel, as the former residents of Asgard head for safety on Earth, a planet where, as refugees, they expect to be welcomed.

Visions of murder, catastrophe, transfiguration and desperate love issued from the Beacon Theater stage on Friday night, set to dirges, stomps and inexorable crescendos.

Now, Sarah's son, John Nick Stahll), the prophesied leader of the human resistance, is living "off the grid," haunted by nightmarish visions of global catastrophe.