| Twentieth century's final years witnessed some cataclysmic events unprecedented in history. |
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| Others have experienced in their lives some sort of cataclysmic event, and now they make lots of money telling everyone else about it. |
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| Anyone who watches such cataclysmic events unfold can somehow claim them as their own. |
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| Nonetheless, his death triggered events which led to cataclysmic changes at every level of society, and in almost every country on earth. |
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| Whatever cataclysmic collision forged the glassy rocks occurred about half a million years ago. |
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| These are different from the reforms of the early 1990s that created cataclysmic changes in the day-to-day life of ordinary Russians. |
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| There are cataclysmic family secrets that are revealed, and a Shakespearean finale that is a clever spin on the original. |
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| The cataclysmic event may have caused widespread extinction of the dinosaurs and three-fourths of Earth's living organisms. |
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| Paleontologists recognize five cataclysmic episodes in Earth's history, times when 50 to 95 percent of existing species abruptly vanished. |
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| A cataclysmic event during this period detached most of the crystal groups from the cavern walls and ceiling. |
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| It explores the environmental, political, economic and social impact of such a cataclysmic event. |
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| Blessed with cataclysmic vision, we don't admit gentler outcomes, such as mere catastrophe or ruin. |
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| And all of them blissfully unaware that the cataclysmic events of the next ten years will change the world as they know it. |
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| It's still possible that this is just a cataclysmic bankruptcy for which a few malfeasant executives will pay a stiff price. |
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| Oblivious to the implications, he falls head over heels in love, embarking on a bitter-sweet romance that will have cataclysmic consequences. |
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| At cataclysmic events in the community the women were present to minister aid and comfort. |
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| The film is set at a time when an abrupt climate change has cataclysmic consequences for the entire planet. |
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| Several cataclysmic events happened all at once, but all I remember now are a few things. |
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| As we get further away from cataclysmic events, their ability to inspire terror becomes attenuated. |
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| The sudden appearance of Europeans after the first landfall of Christopher Columbus in 1492 had a cataclysmic effect upon them. |
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| Intriguingly, the author of this cataclysmic theatrical moment politely refused to engage in either explanations or expositions about his work. |
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| Apparently, a great earthquake caused a cataclysmic rush of water to submerge the parish of Feadaill at the south end of the loch, and all its inhabitants perished. |
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| And judging by the moans and groans coming from some supporters at the moment you would think Burnley are locked in a tailspin of cataclysmic proportions. |
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| Milan Kundera claims that the speed of human history is accelerating, cataclysmic events following after one another with mounting speed. |
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| Apocalyptic literature, literary genre that foretells supernaturally inspired cataclysmic events that will transpire at the end of the world. |
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| The miners' strike of 1984-85 is the most cataclysmic event in postwar British history. |
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| The Annual Report made no mention of the cataclysmic events of the late summer of 1939 that would take Canada into another world war. |
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| Exactly how to combat the prospect of cataclysmic terrorism is a question to which different Allies will give different answers. |
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| It also critiques international media coverage of the cataclysmic events in Rwanda. |
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| The stories of the first book are centred in the cataclysmic events leading up to and after the overthrow of the Allende government. |
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| And if you don't pay attention to the alarm sounded by the loss of a species then you run the risk of major, cataclysmic upheaval and suffering in the future. |
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| Did you ever think in all your life, David, that in your lifetime the most cataclysmic event in the history of this country would happen and you would see it? |
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| When Marx and Engels turned their attention to the cataclysmic upheaval in India, they saw it in relation to similar developments taking place in other parts of the world. |
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| The Depression was a cataclysmic event that did much to erode confidence in the middle class's dream of racial advancement through economic self-help. |
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| Our foreparents lived through sea changes, upheavals so cataclysmic, so devastating we may never appreciate the fortitude and resilience required to survive them. |
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| The volcanic chain was activated, we were told, expecting to see cataclysmic explosions at any moment. |
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| Winters uses that cataclysmic event to examine the slow deterioration of communal life in the face of annihilation. |
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| It was the cataclysmic collision of spitfire upstart performer, brilliant pop song, and cheeky music video. |
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| It takes a cataclysmic and frightening event for the warmonger wing of the party to win the day. |
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| And Egyptian political life has taken, thereafter, a cataclysmic turn for the worse. |
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| Back then, the cataclysmic flood waters in the region scoured away the soils of Eastern Washington and carried house-sized boulders from Montana as far away as Oregon. |
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| They have cataclysmic visions of what will happen to the world if Orestes escapes punishment, since there will be no justice to this matricidal murderer. |
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| The movie turns into a mindless gorefest, the genius character suddenly suffers a cataclysmic brain cramp, and the action begins to resemble Alien light. |
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| Despite the world's brightest researchers, the latest GPS technology and powerful computer models, scientists cannot reliably forecast the cataclysmic geological events. |
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| The cataclysmic event, which occurred last year on Jupiter's moon Io, ranks as the most powerful volcanic eruption ever recorded in the solar system. |
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| The one constant in recent years has been change-often sudden and sometimes cataclysmic. |
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| Yet no matter how cataclysmic it now seems, this is really for the best. |
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| An AM CVn star, or AM Canum Venaticorum star, is a type of cataclysmic variable star. |
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| It is believed that a cataclysmic impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. |
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| At an age by which I should have had a cataclysmic encounter with an album such as Blood on the Tracks, I'd sought out just one Dylan song, The Man in Me, because I'd heard it used to good effect in a film. |
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| In Haiti an impoverished population already worn down by decades of unrest now has to rebuild a nation after a cataclysmic earthquake, which came on the heels of two devastating hurricanes. |
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| But must we have cataclysmic events to be the trigger? |
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| The government has to play a role in allowing for steady and incremental changes to occur so that cataclysmic changes do not have to happen overnight. |
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| To compare such a historical tragedy to a work of art, declaring that what happens in the sphere of art should resemble what happens in so cataclysmic an event, is to give evidence of an extraordinary vanity. |
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| It was from a spruce tree growing in the valley in 2240-2400 B. C. The tree was 180 years old when a cataclysmic landslide buried it until it was unearthed again in 1980 by a flood. |
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| The Committee is surprised and disappointed at the negative title of this chapter, particularly since the content of the chapter does not reflect this cataclysmic vision. |
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| Ben Nevis is all that remains of a Devonian volcano that met a cataclysmic end in the Carboniferous period around 350 million years ago. |
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| In the wake of the superflus and cataclysmic events, male writers tend to jump to that unholy trinity of rape, murder and cannibalism. |
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| Yet somehow the integrative effect of many interlocking complex processes has maintained atmospheric stability in the face of large-scale changes and even during periods of cataclysmic disruption. |
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| With its cataclysmic music, Rite ranks as the most frequently recycled of all the Diaghilev ballets, but close behind is Nijinsky's L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, with its pastoral Greek imagery and dappled Debussy score. |
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| In the last three years, commitments have grown in response to the major upheavals in Europe and the former USSR as well as the cataclysmic events in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. |
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| Eighteen years later the cities were destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion that also ruptured the geological fault that underlies the Jordan Valley, causing the ground to sink and seal off the effluence of the Jordan River. |
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| There are situations such as car collisions or cataclysmic weather or, God forbid, where there is a heinous criminal act and not one person but many people are hurt. |
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| This has to do with the cataclysmic consequences of an employment policy and an industry policy whose significance for the regions affected is far more than merely economic. |
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| Them is a glowering, languid novel of mid-century Detroit which straddles economic extremes as it steams toward a cataclysmic unraveling during the July 1967 uprising. |
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| Deterrence is burdensome to maintain. And it also carries with it the danger-no matter how small-that it might break down with cataclysmic results. |
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| An understanding of supernovae, the cataclysmic death of a massive star, relies on an understanding of macroscopic matter under extreme conditions. |
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| In a cataclysmic event, the Mediterranean sea basin was flooded. |
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| Our idea of the pretty is a limited notion that cannot possibly apply to earth's metamorphic underworld, a cataclysmic realm of chthonian violence. |
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