Reading like a warning of some apocalyptic future, the waxed chanteurs become wedding planners - thankfully not their own.

Every now and then we suffer visions of an apocalyptic future.

Blue-chip companies are planning for a world of capital controls and nationalisations, as they war-game an apocalyptic future of currency collapse, soaring inflation, spiralling borrowing costs and tumbling business investment.

Had the school remained closed, this outcome would have led to an apocalyptic future.

Here the music's brute force compelled a degree of sustained interest, unlike the preceding 90 minutes — a fragmentary apocalyptic landscape.

The survivor - alone in an apocalyptic landscape - cut a wretched figure as her tears summed up the sense of hopelessness yesterday.

That apocalyptic landscape lends itself very well to comedy.

You might see leaping figures, discover mathematical geometries, find peering faces or apocalyptic landscapes.

Plus, they got sick of apocalyptic predictions that began to prove false.

The target caused an outcry last week with apocalyptic predictions of a return to 1930s levels of spending.

Every change that has been made to legal aid has brought apocalyptic predictions from the legal profession.

Unfortunately, his apocalyptic predictions of the effect of genetically modified crops (see page 18) do not enhance public debate, but degrade it.

Still, some of the more apocalyptic predictions for 2012 proved over the top.

Would this country not be more secure if it focused on the immediate threats rather than planning for an apocalyptic scenario?

An apocalyptic scenario that sounds scarily like the 'plots' of many a studio blockbuster.

Under their apocalyptic scenario, planes would be grounded and lorries barred from the continent, resulting in dire shortages of food and medicine.

So, let's take the apocalyptic scenario first.

Which, in case you need reminding, will ultimately lead to the apocalyptic scenario where, yep, we are forced to make the choice between buying or not buying something.

Yet many did walk away from this apocalyptic scene.

Then imagine the apocalyptic scene when families found the attraction they'd paid for was a filthy wasteland and even the staff were in tears.

A banner floats above this apocalyptic scene.

Apocalyptic scenes of thick grey smoke billowing for hundreds of miles above the tree canopy prompted international outrage.

He watched as apocalyptic scenes consumed the shoreline.

If they feature alienated, isolated characters, constricting environments or even the slightest whiff of an apocalyptic theme they are celebrated as, well, timely.

At opposite ends of the country, remarkable modern operas with a millenarian or apocalyptic theme were revisited in semi-staged performances on consecutive evenings.

In common with later albums the lyrics heavily reference the dark side of the occult and apocalyptic themes.

There was a steady stream of popular music with apocalyptic themes.

Some of this group deal with matters as before, others focus on apocalyptic themes.

Rave reviews and global sales of 2.85m rewarded his endeavour, and brightened his apocalyptic view of fiction's prospects.

There are many, however, who take an apocalyptic view of this exclusive talkathon.

The show offers an apocalyptic view of the first generation born in the 21st century as they approach adulthood.

The rebel has a suitably apocalyptic view of the financial world.

And unless you subscribe to the apocalyptic view on oil prices, then aviation remains a cyclical industry, and will have its day in the sun again.

But he came close to the same apocalyptic vision as he warned that the global economic crisis could ignite social and political unrest.

Even more breathtaking than this apocalyptic vision, however, was the epic scale of the rescue operation.

Most impressive, though, was the thunder of the wildebeests as they stampeded over a hill, carried by dust clouds like an apocalyptic vision.

Here again she juxtaposes an apocalyptic vision with wittily evoked banality.

It was 'like being struck by lightning', an 'almost apocalyptic vision'.