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- adjective Before an
apocalypse .
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Like all quality drama, Caprica is not just emotionally and intellectually gripping, but also compels viewers to confront their own reality, even as they are swept up in this visually arresting, preapocalyptic world of sentient robots, avatars, and interplanetary travel.
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Like all quality drama, Caprica is not just emotionally and intellectually gripping, but also compels viewers to confront their own reality, even as they are swept up in this visually arresting, preapocalyptic world of sentient robots, avatars, and interplanetary travel.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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But what would happen if liberal theologians abandoned apocalypse altogether and returned full circle to the preapocalyptic faith of the prophets with its intrinsic moral, social, and political concerns?
Revolution in the Church Sheehan, Thomas 1984
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I visited a block where young artists and college debtors have formed a wonky farm village, a postindustrial, preapocalyptic vision, complete with pheasants running between the raised garden beds built with floorboards ripped from an abandoned factory.
NYT > Home Page By CHRISTINE MUHLKE 2010
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