cataclysmal

Example Sentences

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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)

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

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

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

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Though all the world be filled with snow   And fire and cataclysmal storm, I'll cross it just to lay my head   Upon her bosom warm.

From The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems by Le Gallienne, Richard