An apocalyptic tone was set on Aug. 31 when nearly 1,000 people were killed in a stampede on a bridge in northern Baghdad.

But they rarely speak in such apocalyptic tones - and there is good reason to take their warnings seriously," the Post said.

In the last months of the war, Goebbels' speeches and articles took on an increasingly apocalyptic tone:

In the 1990's paintings of skeletons and snarling dogs had an apocalyptic tone.

Only James C. Dobson, head of the evangelical group Focus on the Family, seems to echo the apocalyptic tone.

But now his mother spoke in apocalyptic tones: "You shall suffer in Babylon, 0 Israel.

His writing here is extremely emotional, taking on a more apocalyptic tone in a sense.

The statistics were sobering (though there are some who still disagree with the report's analyses and apocalyptic tone).

But Mr. Graham also made a broader point, much at variance with the apocalyptic tone of most of his Republican colleagues' remarks.

By virtue of its sheer velocity "Complicity" is irresistibly compelling, yet it stumbles, in the end, on its apocalyptic moral tone.