cataclysmal

Example Sentences

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Perhaps she's so deaf that nothing short of a cataclysmal uproar will reach her auditory nerves.'

From The Beetle by Marsh, Richard

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

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

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

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