cataclysmal
Example Sentences
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On the one side, conversion has been dwelt upon as a cataclysmal epoch in a person's life, produced, negatively, by an act of self-surrender, and, positively, by a supernatural act of grace.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
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
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
Ten seconds later this cataclysmal lunatic had reverted to sanity—a rather sheepish sanity.
From Secret Places of the Heart by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
