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Перевод: apocalyptic

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апокалипсический; апокалиптический

Тезаурус:

1. The Epistles of St Paul and the Apocalyptic Book of Revelation contain many high and mystical expressions of belief about Christ but they cannot be described as "records" of the kind which would compel rational belief.
2. The job occupies him, as Svidrigailov would say; it involves both the man and the salaried magistrate, and it defines the part played by Porfiry in the apocalyptic naturalism of the crime-and-punishment process.
3. For many people, Christmas is a time to have an apocalyptic hangover or binge; the Christian bit is an unnecessary encumbrance to them.
4. He wrote a substantial commentary on the book of Daniel, to discourage fervent apocalyptic expectations of an imminent end to the world which had lately led one bishop to lead his flock out into the desert to meet the returning Lord, requiring a rescue operation by government authority.
5. The sight triggered deeply his apocalyptic imagination.
6. Looking over Dostoevsky's shoulder, we find him first writing "small yellow glass", then deleting "small"; and writing "water" then adding "yellow warm" to the water, then deleting "warm" - the final text uniting an apocalyptic starkness of yellow meets yellow with the topicality of Petersburg's notoriously filthy water supply, a subject of much comment and complaint in the newspapers.
7. Eliot's apocalyptic urban imagination had destroyed London before.
8. But it is conventional in terms of Eliot's earlier poetry; though less dramatic, its conclusion is as apocalyptic as before.
9. Jesus and Holy Russia at his feet remain harmlessly, hypothetically beyond the apocalyptic naturalism which is everything the book is about: the devils, the disease, the all-pervading unsteadiness.
10. In the Sixties Gurus and pop music were the thing; the present mood is sombre and apocalyptic.
11. The thrust of their loose end, as of details like the murderer's yellow cubby-hole - coffinlike, his mother calls it - and Marmeladov's greenish-yellow face and the mortal yellow-black bruise over the heart after he gets run over, is metaphysical and apocalyptic, not documentary.
12. Sixties acid rock's quest for the mindblowing was given a ruinous, apocalyptic, eighties inflection: psychedelia's pristine bliss-out was polluted by hardcore punk nihilism.
13. There is the growing allure of apocalyptic solutions.