Among other great minds affected by the influence of Saint-Simonism, it is scarcely surprising to find Lamennais. When George Sand first knew him, he was fifty-three years of age. He had broken with Rome, and was the apocalyptic author of _Paroles d'un croyant_. He put into his revolutionary faith all the fervour of his loving soul, a soul that had been created for apostleship, and to which the qualification of "a disaffected cathedral" certainly applied.英文原著 · 《George Sand》
In the silence that followed, a very bewildeing silence so far as March was concerned, they saw the quaint figure of the Duke of Westmoreland, with his white hat and whiskers, approaching them across the garden. Fisher instantly stepped toward him with the pink paper in his hand, and, with a few words, pointed out the apocalyptic paragraph. The duke, who had been walking slowly, stood quite still, and for some seconds he looked like a tailor's dummy standing and staring outside some antiquated shop. Then March heard his voice, and it was high and almost hysterical:英文原著 · 《The Man Who Knew Too Much》
Would you like to battle me in a post-apocalyptic world...美剧 · 《Friends》
But don't you just---We let them get away with it, next thing you know, nobody's paying rent, the economy collapses, and we wake up one morning living in post-apocalyptic ruins eating old cans of dog food.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Spare us the apocalyptic desert planet scifi bullshit, Frank Herbert.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》