| Nor does it take massive destruction or the organic cataclysm of advanced, systemic diseases, to fell us. |
| They proposed that the causal agent was a climatic cataclysm, resulting from the impact of a bolide. |
| Thus, the ultimate question of a gradual decline of dinosaurs vs. a sudden cataclysm is almost intractable without a wealth of good data. |
| Some points in the opera are on the unsatisfactory side of orchestral fullness for that reason, like the concluding cataclysm. |
| The reaction has been, at least in the media, as if a great cataclysm had swept the party. |
| As the generation that had made or experienced the original cataclysm died away, historians began to appropriate it for analysis. |
