The deaths, and the apocalyptic images of valleys where daylight had turned to darkness, prompted the fledgling group of government foresters to adopt a new policy.
It lacks the grandeur of Macbeth's earlier apocalyptic image of pity, Yet it is no less the response to what Macbeth knows to be his 'horrid deed'.
An apocalyptic image, I was told.
Although this apocalyptic image is apt, its high drama comes as a surprise in a novel that has focused so observantly on the nuances and niceties of small-town social life.
Everyone at the Tail of the Wolf had seen the apocalyptic images on television.
This work was frequently exhibited in the East Village in the early 1980's, a time of cultural and political uncertainty in the city and apocalyptic images in art.
On many mornings, the television news runs apocalyptic images of firebombed vehicles.
Notwithstanding the apocalyptic image conveyed by this particular paragraph, Malthus himself did not subscribe to the notion that mankind was fated for a "catastrophe" due to population overshooting resources.
The opening lines begin the song's torrent of apocalyptic images:
In a double-page spread under the headline "Oblivious to oblivion" The Suns environment editor said "reality has caught up with the apocalyptic images."