Everyone thought the earthquake was a major cataclysm. From LearnThat.org.
We appear to be headed for something where the word cataclysm seems terrifyingly appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Kathy Freston: Avoiding an Environmental Apocalypse] Reference
The much-debated computer worm may have headed off a conflagration that would have rendered the word cataclysm a pale understatement. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley Burston: Think Israel's a Lost Cause? Ten Reasons to Think Again] Reference
He painted bleak gatherings of jobless men and he painted toppling skyscrapers that reveal a world in cataclysm. From Wordnik.com. [Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals] Reference
So it came about that the outcome of the cataclysm was a thing which happens often enough in a conventionalized world. From Wordnik.com. [The Grafters] Reference
Barring some kind of cataclysm that Barack Obama's going to be the nominee. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 12, 2008] Reference
Because if he did, he wouldn't have supported the Iraq war or not seen the cataclysm which is coming. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
And now it is -- you know, barring some kind of cataclysm, that Barack Obama is going to be the nominee. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 11, 2008] Reference
Secondly, the "cataclysm" theory depends on a peculiar notion of "normal": that the Democrats lose no seats, or even gain them. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Lakoff: It's Not As Bad as All That] Reference
"will Americans be immune from the same kind of cataclysm that almost took the country off the economic edge two years ago?". From Wordnik.com. [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference
I have a cataclysm of charlotte-russe in my stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But it must have been a cataclysm of spectacular dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The goal had all but been attained when the cataclysm struck. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
The cataclysm of the French Revolution interrupted his studies. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Other cities shouldn't wait for their own cataclysm to do the same. From Wordnik.com. [After the Deluge, A New Education System] Reference
Instead, he's the honored guest at an unexpected domestic cataclysm. From Wordnik.com. [Bush: Praying For Rain] Reference
They worked well to avoid a major cataclysm for perhaps two generations. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Philip Neches: Financial Reform: Nobody Is Happy] Reference
The theme focused on how art flows from the human response to cataclysm. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: Facing the Oil: Women of the Louisiana Delta Nourish Hearts and Souls] Reference
A cataclysm of nature was about all that would thwart her determination. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
A cataclysm is then the beverage participant, then of a fictionalization. From Wordnik.com. [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference
Men everywhere felt that the social system was threatened with a cataclysm. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Even short of such a cataclysm, they say, U.S. interests require helping Gorbachev. From Wordnik.com. [How To Help Gorbachev] Reference
The first cataclysm came at the time when civilisation was again rapidly changing, and. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
They knew how narrowly a European war was averted during the Balkan cataclysm two years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
But for two years while the railway cataclysm was coming he went along with business as usual. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
They can bet on a supernatural rescue for themselves and their kind and wait for the cataclysm. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Krattenmaker: Nuclear Disarmament and 'End Time' Theology] Reference
The second was Israel, created as a direct consequence of the horrors unleashed by that cataclysm. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Bacevich: The End of (Military) History? The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War] Reference
They moved only in circles, returning always to the place from which they had watched the cataclysm. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
Old Lagrange exclaimed with profound sincerity that he hoped the cataclysm would come as late as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The financial cataclysm is an opportunity to change an old order that turned out to be deeply dysfunctional. From Wordnik.com. [Four years that shook the financial world] Reference
No: there are always wild cards, including the possibility of another terrorism act or a cataclysm in the Middle East. From Wordnik.com. [Learning Tough Lessons] Reference
The most important of all the symptoms of the approaching cataclysm was, however, the growing unrest among the peasants. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
The world's reaction to this cataclysm has been mild because the region is of marginal political and economic importance. From Wordnik.com. [Eurasia And The Epidemic] Reference
Liverpool, along with crowds of worried, anxious Americans, who, like themselves, were fleeing from the unexpected cataclysm. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
Which is to say she very likely thinks that human history will soon unravel in a foreordained cataclysm of war and bad weather. From Wordnik.com. [When Atheists Attack] Reference
It was the beginning of that policy of "stability" associated later with Metternich, which was to last till the cataclysm of 1848. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
If there's some big cataclysm they are the first to go because they don't have that mean, fighter streak for down and dirty survival. From Wordnik.com. [Big Al Dissects Literary Fiction since No One Else in the Bar could pronounce Aristotle] Reference
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