cataclysmal

Example Sentences

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Nothing short of the cataclysmal end of the world could have provided drama to match the stupendous stage-setting of that stormy sky.

From October Vagabonds by Le Gallienne, Richard

Some cataclysmal upheaval would seem to account for such disrupture rather than the infinitely slow processes suggested by geological history.

From The Roof of France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

Lyall in England had shown that geological formations were evolutionary rather than cataclysmal.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

This cataclysmal desire drew me by day and by night.

From The Home and the World by Tagore, Rabindranath

This tells of the World, its beginning, its convulsions and its ending, and thus embraces the three minor cycles of the cosmogonical, the cataclysmal and the eschatological myths.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison