cataclysmal

Example Sentences

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The mind trained in submission to universal law will not shrink from a fate which awaits the universe by fire or cataclysmal change.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

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

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

Somehow I could not bring myself to think of my relation to him as involving cataclysmal changes.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter

Fortunately, the approaching explosion, which would have been of a cataclysmal nature,—Stiffy was not a boy to do things by halves,—was averted by a change of demeanour on the part of the temptress.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian