Laurie Holden

When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages. It's really a fascinating character study in the exploration of the human psyche.

American Actress

Barbara Ehrenreich

I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

American Writer

Franklin Foer

Trump uses the phrase 'America First,' only dimly aware that he is repeating a phrase from the interwar years and indifferent to its historic resonances. But he compulsively echoes that period - another time when leaders described the world in apocalyptic terms.

Josh Malerman

Most apocalyptic fiction makes it very clear that it's the end of the world. But 'Bird Box' hasn't convinced me of that. Is 'Bird Box' instead a suburban neurotic nightmare? I don't think so. But it's fun to consider.

American Author

Virginia Postrel

Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance.

Marjorie Liu

We imagine 'the end' as a world-devastating event, but every time there's a terrible earthquake, a tsunami, an outbreak of disease - that's apocalyptic, on a micro-scale.

Noam Chomsky

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

American Activist

Stephen King

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Author

Paul W. S. Anderson

Apocalyptic movies tend to thrive when people are concerned about the state of the world.

English Director

Nick Cave

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

Australian Musician

Use 'apocalyptic' to describe events that have extreme impact or destruction, much like in a disaster movie.

Severity Scale

'Apocalyptic' is often used metaphorically to emphasize the severity of a situation, not always a literal catastrophe.

Not Literal

'Apocalyptic' can invoke strong imagery of widespread ruins or devastation, often used to paint a vivid picture.

Visual Impact

In casual conversation, 'apocalyptic' can be used humorously or lightly, not taken too seriously.

Not Always Solemn

'Apocalyptic' is used to dramatize a situation which, although serious, is being described with intentional exaggeration.

Exaggeration Cue

Using 'apocalyptic' can signify someone's emotional response is extremely intense, almost as if it's the end of the world.

Emotional Intensity

'Apocalyptic' is versatile and can bring a vivid, if not informal, image to everyday exaggerations or concerns.

Informal Imagery

 are not motivated by an ascetic pride. They're nerve-racked. There's even a movement called BirthStrike, whose members have declared they're not going to have kids because of the state of the ecological crisis and inaction from governments to address this existential threat. And yes, other generations have also faced their own apocalyptic dangers,

How climate change...

 People don't just disagree in the way that we're familiar with, on the left-right political divide. There are much deeper differences afoot. What on earth is going on, and how did we get here? This is different. There's a much more apocalyptic sort of feeling.

Can a divided America...

 It looks Very apocalyptic. It won't be out of place in a zombie apocalypse film. It wouldn't at all. Feels like it would be very easy to die here. That thing is incredible there. And that's the that's the main headgear that brought up all that coal

Finding Little Owls in...

 So basically, I'm here to tell you, people talk about the future as though it's either going to be a technological wonderland or some kind of apocalyptic poop barbecue. But the truth is, it's not going to be either of those things.

Go Ahead, Dream About...

 characterized by a nation versus nation very fragile standoff 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

Surviving a nuclear...

 And there are other examples of this. And I'm afraid there are far more deadly weapons in our near future than airplanes, ones not made of metal. So let's consider the apocalyptic dynamics that will ensue

How synthetic biology...

 the big five mass extinction are scattered through the history of life over the last 550 million years and what caused them were things like massive volcanic eruptions climate changes and even apocalyptic

How Apocalypses Paved...

 them than there are of us we are in the minority we are the hunted we are the victims the world is reduced to an apocalyptic wasteland where there's nothing but the bare bones of human

Zombies Taking Over PIPE...

 to mother nature's devastating destruction - epic blasts of unbelievable cosmic power all of them reveal a universe of lurking pounds like exploding stars apocalyptic

Before Time and Space PIPE...

 so when we think about artificial intelligence we set up this crossroad where we often hear like a quote like this a very apocalyptic picture painted