day of doom

He had the responsibility more than all the other gods together of postponing as long as possible the day of doom, Ragnarok, when heaven and earth would be destroyed.

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

Then, as if the Dread Day of Doom and Disaster had come to Camillo Junior High, I heard, “Hey, Hoodhood!”

The first bestseller in the early American colonies was The Day of Doom, by Michael Wigglesworth, published in 1662.

Close your eyes, turn off the world, and try to “attend exclusively to the passage of time, like one who wakes, as the poet says, ‘to hear time flowing in the middle of the night, and all things moving to a day of doom.’ ”