| As ever, Roth has the ability to suggest a vast historical catastrophe through the tiny apocalypses of ordinary life, which he renders with all of Baudelaire's poetic acuity. |
| While monsters, anti-Christs, and the Virgin herself appeared in the countryside, apocalypses were prophesied in capitals. |
| It is very difficult to sum up in a few phrases the kind of apocalypses that this country is facing. |
| One reason for believing the reports are fictions is that apocalypses seem to allude literarily to previous apocalypses. |
| There is no hero worship of the leader, no particularly unusual rituals, no millennial apocalypses or anything else that would set off alarm bells. |
| Over the years, peace activism has grown stronger and more vocal, thus reducing chances of any man-made apocalypses. |
