The story of a seemingly average American family almost undone by cataclysmic violence, the film takes place in a surreal and mercilessly brutal land, Anytown, U.S.A., that has been repeatedly soaked in blood only to be repeatedly washed clean.

In the next instant the tumult rose up again, reaching its cli-max in a last burst of violence more cataclysmic than any that had gone before.

The team, he said, was surprised how quickly life had taken root in an area shaken weeks earlier by cataclysmic violence.

The divide between Deobandis had its origins in the 1947 partition of the British Indian empire into India and Pakistan, an event that set off cataclysmic violence between Hindus and Muslims and sundered the Muslims of the subcontinent, too.

A full eighth of the Patrol's entire count of battleships was wrecked, riddled, blown apart, or blasted completely out of space in the paralyzingly cataclysmic violence of the first, seconds-long, mind-shaking, space-wracking encounter.

One of the most exciting implications is that the discovery was made not at a Sun-like star but at a pulsar, the ruin of cataclysmic violence.

Set in a small Ohio town, the rigorously minimalist story involves three factory workers whose placid existence is shattered after two in the little group become romantically linked, leading to an act of cataclysmic violence.

They are neighbors born in a moment of cataclysmic religious violence.

Either with actual cataclysmic violence or with the perpetual threat that such violence might be visited upon them at any moment, the Eye of Erykon had taught its people only one lesson.

Over rapacious jungles, over geysers spouting hot water, over sullenly steaming rivers and seas, over boiling lakes of mud, and high over gigantic volcanoes in uninterrupted eruptions of cataclysmic violence the Vorkulian phalanx flew-, straight north.