I fell into this apocalyptic dream world.

Parts of the ocean there look just absolutely apocalyptic.

A science fiction adventure game set in a bleak post apocalyptic vision of the future

The despair caused by these natural disasters and their apocalyptic nature has shocked us all.

And the point really is, is that I think, probably everybody in this room would like society to get to 2050 without an apocalyptic something happening.

And basically, we lived for all those years, and some might argue that we still do, in a situation of being on the brink, literally, of an apocalyptic, planetary calamity.

The focus on the Temple Mount has given the current confrontation an apocalyptic quality. It is time for both sides and especially the Israelis to recognize just how dangerous the situation is.

The view walking in sweltering heat through that long cage is apocalyptic. Small groups of Palestinians smash up the remains of Gaza s bombed industrial infrastructure the concrete blocks that litter the sandy landscape.

I have a dream that we can stop thinking that the future will be a nightmare, and this is going to be a challenge, because, if you think of every major blockbusting film of recent times, nearly all of its visions for humanity are apocalyptic.

COPENHAGEN We often hear how the world as we know it will end, usually through ecological collapse. Indeed, more than 40 years after the Club of Rome released the mother of all apocalyptic forecasts, The Limits to Growth, its basic ideas are still with us.

What they're doing there is that they're not I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much it's used the apocalyptic tone too much it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

FLORENCE For months, an increasingly frenetic, even apocalyptic, debate about the fate of the euro has been the major driver of global instability. Can Europe s common currency survive? No less a figure than former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has now declared that it cannot.

The apocalyptic bombast is even more disturbing. According to Angel Gurría, Secretary General of the OECD, our planet is warming dangerously, and we need to act now to avoid catastrophe the United Nations climate chief, Christiana Figueres, maintains that global warming means that the world economy is at risk.

His clear priority is the Islamic Republic s survival, not the fate of particular Iranian politicians. While Ahmedinejad s apocalyptic vision makes it difficult for westerners to deal with him, Khamenei does not want to stumble into a military confrontation with the West, which would destabilize Iran and possibly lead to the regime s downfall.

BEIRUT After spending just three days with refugees and aid workers in Lebanon and Turkey, the apocalyptic nature of the Syria crisis is all too apparent more than 100,000 deaths, nine million people displaced, two million children out of school, diseases like polio resurfacing, and neighboring countries struggling to cope with waves of refugees.

Many members of this group honor the institution of private property, and Ahmadinejad s talk of redistributing wealth is not to their liking. More disturbing to them is his apocalyptic conviction regarding the imminent advent of the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi, whose appearance is believed to lead to the destruction of the world and the end of time.

Netanyahu s Holocaust analogy would have been a mere intellectual curiosity if he were not the person who would be responsible for taking the decision about whether to attack Iran s nuclear installations and thus drive the Middle East into an apocalyptic confrontation. The career of his political mentor, Menachem Begin, demonstrated that distorted analogies between past and present can inspire irresponsible policies.

If it were really true that the fundamental existence of our democratic Western world were about to be destroyed by an Islamist revolution, it would only make sense to seek protection in the full force of the US informal empire. But if one sees our current problems in less apocalyptic terms, then another kind of trahison des clercs comes into view the blind cheering on of a sometimes foolish military power embarked on unnecessary wars that cost more lives than they were intended to save.