Being severely destructive.
1 Ten seconds later this cataclysmal lunatic had reverted to sanity- arathersheepish sanity.
2 This cataclysmal desire drew me by day and by night.
3 Perhaps she's so deaf that nothing short of a cataclysmal uproar will reach her auditory nerves.'
4 The cataclysmal force to which we owe
5 He says it was bloodcurdling, horrible, cataclysmal .
6 Miss Quincey was quite shaken by this cataclysmal outbreak, this overturning and shattering of the old beacons and landmarks.
7 Some cataclysmal upheaval would seem to account for such disrupture rather than the infinitely slow processes suggested by geological history.
8 You must figure the tumult suddenly striking on the unstable equilibrium of old Fletcher's planks and two chairs , - with cataclysmal results.
9 Nothing short of the cataclysmal end of the world could have provided drama to match the stupendous stage-setting of that stormy sky.
10 In fact she's given the album the hardly less cataclysmal title Mother Of Gloom, a phrase cribbed from a Martha Wainwright song.
11 But geologists are becoming more and more loath to call in the cataclysmal to explain any feature of the topography of the land.
12 Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.
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