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"annihilation" Definitions
  1. the act of somebody/something being completely destroyed
  2. the complete defeat of somebody/something

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For the most part, Annihilation the movie preserves the main concepts of Annihilation the book.
After we were done with all that cellular annihilation, my own semi-annihilation was obvious, but my tumor remained intact.
Annihilation Review: Who Knew Unicorn Highlighter Could Be So Terrifying?
Portman and director Alex Garland on the set of Annihilation.
Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, and a mutant gator in Annihilation.
So did Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, and Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation.
Annihilation is asking similar questions about the nature of cells.
Annihilation will become Isaac and Garland's second major project together.
In a way, Annihilation takes this proven method even further.
For more on what critics thought of Annihilation, read on.
The fear of nuclear annihilation in 2016 is perfectly rational.
New managers sold off overseas rights for "Annihilation" to Netflix.
Americans' fears of nuclear annihilation well up every few decades.
" General Philip Sheridan spoke of "annihilation, obliteration, and complete destruction.
Similar to Annihilation — it gives you so much to chew on.
It's like the weird expansion / contraction of Ex Machina to Annihilation.
And they hang over Annihilation with a sense of leaden inevitability.
But we pay a price for these dire visions of annihilation.
Annihilation will debut in theaters in the U.S. on Feb. 23.
And that's a shame, because by all accounts, Annihilation seems good.
Annihilation, the new movie from writer-director Alex Garland, understands this.
Where one group prayed to repent, the other prayed for annihilation.
Unlike the source book, Annihilation plays out in a crescendo. Jeff
Isolation, then ultimately, annihilation and starvation if it&aposs North Korea.
I watched Annihilation,  and I watched Suspiria, which was really creepy.
Tens of thousands ran to the Turkish border to escape annihilation.
Ever-deepening and ravenous cruelty, viciousness, annihilation are defended and worshipped.
"Imminent annihilation is so dope," she sings, with cool-girl panache.
Area X is a highly abstract landscape, but its implications – annihilation of all we know — are terrifyingly prescient, especially in an era when world leaders flirt with nuclear war, and annihilation of all we know, on Twitter.
A prospect of glorious annihilation is not something many politicians find appealing.
Warning: Major spoilers for both the film and book versions of Annihilation.
But VanderMeer never explains these elements or many other details surrounding Annihilation.
The film isn't the Annihilation that fans of the book were expecting.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Annihilation, The Incredibles 2, and Pacific Rim: Uprising.
"MSD Strong" was fine, but "We want education, not annihilation" was not.
The Last Black Unicorn, Tiffany Haddish BEST COMEDY ALBUM Annihilation, Patton Oswalt
Alex Garland's Annihilation is coming together, and the details are extremely encouraging.
"Most Sufi masters will say that annihilation takes a lifetime," said Aslan.
Today, Israel is the only country to be incessantly threatened with annihilation.
A couple of words kept coming to mind: total annihilation; complete destruction.
What organization in its right mind would approve of its own annihilation?
So you think the party saved itself from electoral annihilation this week?
Paperboy (Arcade, 1980) Not every game needs to end in nuclear annihilation.
Congressional Republicans are facing annihilation in the midterms, and they know it.
Throughout his life, Streicher was committed to advocating the annihilation of Jews.
The problem is that matter-antimatter annihilation won't cause a chain reaction.
" For "Annihilation, Mr. Garland adapted Jeff VanderMeer's novel of the same title.
The parallels between Annihilation and Stalker, then, are there from the start.
Paul Simon wants to avoid the annihilation of all life on earth.
It&aposs an intervention made to persuade to show other options besides annihilation.
That's thanks, in very large part, to a very small book called Annihilation.
" Isaac recently promised EW that Annihilation would be "very weird and very beautiful.
Not everyone will enjoy Annihilation, and not just because it's a strange movie.
She said: "Why suffer through the annihilation if it's not going to matter?"
Here We Go Again), and sci-fi adventures (Annihilation and Alita: Battle Angel).
Paramount is distributing Annihilation in the US, but Netflix is handling it internationally.
The one element in Annihilation that feels accessible and mainstream is the cast.
We remain focused on maintaining the momentum in the continued annihilation of ISIS.
What could bring people together more than surviving a war of global annihilation?
This attack will boost the ground attack on Shabaab and hasten their annihilation.
Natalie Portman has responded to claims of whitewashing in her upcoming film Annihilation.
Leaders like Trump are quickly moving us closer to both chaos and annihilation.
Texas has a new plan for its 2.5 million feral hogs: total annihilation.
Thompson and Benedict Wong (Wong in "Doctor Strange") starred in 2018's "Annihilation."
"Why suffer through the annihilation if it's not going to matter?" she asked.
But it is nuclear annihilation that remains the sum of all global fears.
Even if the attack hadn't occurred, one can't be sure of ISIS' annihilation.
The tribes they attacked were forced to face annihilation or acquire arms themselves.
But sometimes I longed for total annihilation in it — a beautiful, silent erasure.
We're staring into the face of annihilation — what are we going to do?
The Berlin Patient made them believe total virus annihilation was, in fact, possible.
This leaves us with two options, both of which nuclear annihilation renders absurd.
In a low L-value universe, planet-wide annihilation is an imminent possibility.
It is a sign of weakened, misplaced affections, and a lust of annihilation.
In the "Annihilation" novel, Leigh's character is described as being half-Native American.
The uncanny blank faces silently tell another story: a violent annihilation of individual identity.
If Annihilation was the reflection, this is the object—or is it the reverse?
That's true in Annihilation as well, though there's less argument here and more brooding.
Once the explorers in Annihilation lose their "humanness," their cells get whole new lives.
Image: FacebookDo you have $200,000 and a fascination with the prospect of nuclear annihilation?
It's less Fallout 3 and more Annihilation—the world is gorgeous, but also surreal.
But in Annihilation, VanderMeer promises no easy keys to understanding the universe he's created.
Essentially, the studio preemptively thinks Annihilation, an inventive movie starring five women, will fail.
The Annihilation star, 36, held out on joining the popular platform until last month.
Annihilation, also starring Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez and Tessa Thompson, hits theaters Feb. 23.
For their follow-up collaboration, Annihilation, they had a much bigger set of challenges.
And the Master does have a habit of escaping what looked like certain annihilation.
Republicans are charting the final annihilation of unions, in Congress and in the courts.
We have gotten complacent about nuclear warfare and the potential for global catastrophic annihilation.
" It said that Mr. Botyan had "single-handedly rescued the city from total annihilation.
Fire season brings the prospect of swift and total annihilation to many California communities.
The feeling of annihilation without repercussions looms larger and larger with each passing season.
"What's happening now is annihilation in every sense of the word," he told Reuters.
Anything less than complete and total annihilation could only be, horror of horrors, loss.
Perhaps for no better reason, I've wondered: Are they enough into their future annihilation?
Before carrying out the massacre, he called for the "annihilation" of the country's minorities.
If you're left-leaning its Global Warming; if you lean right, its nuclear annihilation.
Jeff VanderMeer, the author of "Annihilation," brings us fresh horrors with each new book.
Check out the trailer for Annihilation before it hits theaters on February 23, 2017.
The US now has a $40 billion missile interception system; total annihilation is not presupposed.
"We've seen complete annihilation so far," said Benjamin Bradley, of the California Cannabis Industry Association.
If the annihilation rate is too fast, you wouldn't have any dark matter left today.
She's also considering how dark-matter annihilation could have changed the history of the cosmos.
Annihilation filmed in 2016, and it's certainly a departure from your recent work, like Jackie.
The group's Doomsday Clock serves as a symbolic warning of the threat of nuclear annihilation.
That, sadly, could potentially put both countries back to threatening each other with nuclear annihilation.
In order to adapt Annihilation, Garland had to make some massive changes from the book.
All this comes after her breakout roles in Westworld, Annihilation, and Sorry To Bother You.
Tessa Thompson (Annihilation, Sorry to Bother You) IMDb Top 10 Breakout Stars of 2018 1.
Within the tower, they find the Crawler, the closest thing Annihilation has to an antagonist.
Annihilation will be released in theaters in the U.S., Canada, and China on February 23.
Gavin said he saw movies he really enjoyed multiple times, including Annihilation and Black Panther.
Still, if ever a film were saved by its concluding half hour, it is "Annihilation".
Somehow through 70 years of nuclear buildup we've managed to avoid complete annihilation or worse.
Narratives of female self-mutilation, conversely, tend to veer towards self-abnegation and self-annihilation.
Today, it's actor Oscar Isaac, who stars in the just-released sci-fi drama Annihilation.
But a lot of the women in Annihilation are on the forefront of that movement.
These scientists feel the risk of annihilation is as great today as it was then.
So, yeah, as far as Jon knew, he condemned Westeros to annihilation in that moment.
The forecast for tomorrow (and tomorrow and tomorrow): cloudy with a chance of global annihilation.
"One thing is clear, Israel is not threatening the annihilation of any country," Netanyahu said.
All this thanks to our replacing a strategy of attrition with a strategy of annihilation.
Nobody was particularly worried about it—Earth has had much closer brushes with annihilation before.
The cut is for a movie Rodriguez is starring in as Anya Thorensen, called Annihilation.
By the time I did Annihilation, I only knew her in-person for two weeks.
That left the expensive "Annihilation" in fourth place, with $11 million in estimated ticket sales.
One million species of plants and animals are heading toward annihilation, and it's our fault.
These specific trees had endured because their roots underground had been spared the nuclear annihilation.
Otherwise, we may trigger our own annihilation through climate change and other global catastrophic risks.
During the Cold War, people were asking the same questions under fear of nuclear annihilation.
In Annihilation, those desires are refracted through the five women who embark on the expedition.
We spoke to Donwoord about arranging the film, and perpetual fears of total, nuclear annihilation.
The city that breathed life into modern society also produced the recipe for its complete annihilation.
You're also looking back in time, for evidence of dark-matter annihilation in the early universe.
With the annihilation of net neutrality, we are closer to a dystopian digital future than ever.
No one and nothing — even the possibility of wintery annihilation— would get him to say otherwise.
The expedition, unfurling like an acid trip gradually going wrong, makes up the bulk of Annihilation.
What will have pleased Mrs May most of all was the almost total annihilation of UKIP.
By all accounts, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer is an impossible book to turn into a movie.
Where to watch: Starz Annihilation (2018) Think Ghostbusters, but with a more pronounced sense of dread.
Annihilation fights that trend, and makes its audiences walk away with a lot to think about.
"Self annihilation fueled with medicating left me a shell, and the world on mute," Willis said.
On one hand, it's a rare chance for dialogue that doesn't include threats of nuclear annihilation.
One of the movies I'm most looking forward to in 2017 is Alex Garland's film Annihilation.
But the international symbol of conservation needs to lumber much farther from the edge of annihilation.
Candle Meditation Once the power grid goes out, you're only a few minutes away from annihilation.
The metaphorical clock measures the symbolic point of annihilation on earth at the hands of humans.
"We are facing annihilation," trucker Bill Bogar, the protest organizer, told Transportation Nation at the protest.
This is the classic definition of genocide where an ethnic group is a target for annihilation.
Sec. of Defense James Mattis says the fight against ISIS has shifted to "annihilation tactics" pic.twitter.
Filmed at the Chicago Athenaeum, Annihilation represents Oswalt's return to stand-up after his wife's passing.
Those who failed to swear allegiance to Rome's sacred mission were labeled dangerous Others deserving annihilation.
"We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea," he said.
" A few years later, it escalated the warning of nuclear annihilation to "hundreds of American cities.
"Why suffer through the annihilation if it's not going to matter?" she told the Washington Post.
In Annihilation (based on but quite different from Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 novel) he continues the theme.
Earlier this week, we got our first look at director Alex Garland's adaptation of your novel Annihilation.
Nevertheless, this is a summer blockbuster in 2019, and thus annihilation must be on the movie menu.
Instead, we'll all get absorbed into the world of Annihilation together when the movie opens in February.
Annihilation drops us into some near future, narrated by a stoic, emotionally impenetrable biologist (played by Portman).
It has a spatial distribution that is very much what we would expect from dark-matter annihilation.
"At the point of crisis, at the point of annihilation, survival is victory," reads the film's tag.
"At the point of crisis, at the point of annihilation, survival is victory," reads the film's tag.
The fact that Annihilation is led by five women isn't the most interesting part of the movie.
Of course, Annihilation had its big booming electronic tones too — and admittedly, they were also pretty great.
One of 2018's most anticipated films, Ex Machina director Alex Garland's Annihilation, now has a trailer.
This could lead to contamination and, in the worst case scenario, complete annihilation of the human race.
There's a lot to dig into with Annihilation, but the obvious starting point is Jeff VanderMeer's book.
In spite of the few films it mirrors and refracts, Annihilation feels nearly unique in that regard.
The Cold War was also a time of fear -- sparked by the real possibility of nuclear annihilation.
With elements of pessimism and cosmic annihilation, this record throws salt into the wounds of all saviors.
Variety's Justin Chang referred to the "annihilation porn" of films like Man of Steel and Transformers 3.
She observes the unnamed city—perhaps Warsaw—that has risen from annihilation while always honouring its dead.
Conflict in fiction is engaging, and what better conflict than the threat of annihilation by marauding extraterrestrials?
Their ambition is the total annihilation of those people, institutions, and governments who don't agree with them.
Both gore and existentialism abound in Rick's annihilation of not one but two planetary systems of governance.
The end result is The Grand Annihilation, an album that's muscular without being overblown and one-dimensional.
Once manhood-proving has become second nature, the prospect of living without it out feels like annihilation.
That's been particularly the case for Erdoğan, an enthusiastic campaigner for the "annihilation" of the deep state.
"The Republic of Kiribati," Tong said in an op-ed he coauthored last year, "is facing annihilation."
Advocates of the strategy contend that North Korea is unlikely to respond, out of fear of annihilation.
Check out the new video for "Clockworks" below (produced by Julius Horsthuis)​, and prepare for sonic annihilation.
Gina Rodriguez, who recently got a killer undercut for the film Annihilation, understands that all too well.
In fact, the deal is a major step toward the annihilation of the real Church in China.
Most critics loved "Annihilation," but multiplex ticket buyers gave it a C grade in CinemaScore exit polls.
What's different now is that, more than ever before, Americans are coming together to resist this annihilation.
However, coming off his first annihilation of Brandon O'Reilly, Jouban will demand exchanges with the UFC newcomer.
Connell struggles with depression, while Marianne has a masochistic streak that verges on a desire for annihilation.
Zim hijacks Professor Membrane's keynote and uses Membrane's hand-holding powered Membracelets to hurtle Earth towards annihilation.
"The feeling of annihilation without repercussions looms larger and larger with each passing season," Ms. Wortham writes.
The space-walk was another brush with annihilation from which he emerged, just about, in one piece.
This new cold war is a game that could end with the annihilation of life on earth.
Mr. Kim is highly unlikely to strike first, knowing that doing so would result in his annihilation.
The British, faced with the capture or possible annihilation of their troops, initiated a seemingly impossible rescue.
Since the 1950s, nuclear war — the lights-out, end-it-all global annihilation — has hung over humanity.
To grasp at self-erasure is to approach a total annihilation that can be achieved only once.
Once it is used up in an annihilation, no more would be created in a chain reaction.
Annihilation is about the psychology of time, and flicks at the HOX genes that control body shape.
Coplans clearly is a connoisseur of the deadpan ugly who relishes in stout sensations of inexorable annihilation.
The trailer for Ex Machina director and writer Alex Garland's cosmic sci-fi thriller Annihilation is finally here.
"Why suffer through the annihilation if it's not going to matter?" she told the Washington Post last month.
Dolores is fashioning herself into the leader of a revolution, come hell or high water or total annihilation.
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer Jeff Vandermeer made waves with his Weird Area X trilogy — Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance.
But we won't [allow] Iran, which calls for our annihilation, the ability to entrench itself on our border.
From left: Tuva Novotny, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman, and Gina Rodriguez at the Annihilation premiere.
Faced with the prospect of annihilation, Mr Hollande would appear to have little choice but to give up.
The President has been crystal clear today that he is going to support the annihilation of the Kurds.
In the two-hour season premiere, Amberle leaves the palace after seeing a vision of the world's annihilation.
Creeds like radical Islam offer the illusion that murder and self-annihilation is the noblest form of sacrifice.
She cut her hair back in May, then proceeded to get a badass undercut for the film Annihilation.
And yet, thanks to the imaginative efforts of director and screenwriter Alex Garland, Annihilation was turned into movie.
The book signals that Annihilation will be a movie about life — and the components that build life up.
Annihilation has some dazzling visuals, and one of the most upsetting creatures I've ever seen in a film.
In the same interview, Portman said she "felt terrible" about accusations of whitewashing in her upcoming film Annihilation.
Follow along for all of the updates, trailers, and commentary for Annihilation, which opens on February 23rd, 2018.
Some vocal critics, like Nouriel Roubini, are gloating over what they see as annihilation of the crypto bubble.
Behind every Rickroll is a technology designed at the height of the Cold War to guarantee nuclear annihilation.
Annihilation looks as though it's being positioned to fit alongside those films, and hopefully, Borne will as well.
This article originally appeared in Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation, forthcoming from The New Press.
Peter Debruge, Variety: To call "Annihilation" an "adaptation" doesn't really do either the book or the film justice.
A greater problem looms over both Corbyn supporters and opponents: Labour's virtual annihilation in the next general election.
Or simply just what it seemed: a straightforward threat of annihilation from the president of the United States?
"Two young Americans always come down," he says irritably, paving the way for the tiny annihilation that follows.
For his new Netflix special Annihilation (out today), he focuses on a more grim aspect of life: grieving.
With views of nuclear annihilation on all sides, viewers will quite literally have no way to escape it.
" Songs about rage, mayhem, madness and annihilation are business as usual for Metallica on "Hardwired … to Self-Destruct.
Maria Bamford fears nuclear annihilation and wants a judge to reign in Donald Trump before it's too late.
That is the weird self-annihilation at the heart of the job, as the novelist Edwidge Danticat observed.
As they note, historians have disputed how far in advance the mass annihilation of Jews was dreamed up.
What comes through is Mazur's openness to making a painting that pushed his supple touch closer to annihilation.
In Wattam, it's all fun and games so you can bring the whole world back from apocalyptic annihilation.
The climate change metaphor is an obvious one, as we face the impending annihilation of our own world.
" Hayden quickly added that he did not mean "nuclear annihilation but steps far below pressing the nuclear trigger.
Before the killings, the gunman uploaded a now-deleted post calling for the "annihilation" of Germany's ethnic minorities.
On top of that, Kim Jong Un regularly threatens nuclear annihilation of Guam, Japan and the United States.
Strangelove' who rides the bomb like a rodeo bull, whoopin' and hollerin' all the way to nuclear annihilation.
I was reading something similar in John Doran's Jolly Lad - this perpetual fear of annihilation that dominated everything.Absolutely.
Paramount has set a release date for Ex Machina writer-director Alex Garland's next film, Annihilation: February 23rd, 2018.
But researchers who study existential risks argue that the annihilation of humanity is actually much, much worse than that.
It was not a total annihilation like 2009 was for our family, but it was not the best either.
Alex Garland, who wrote and directed the riveting, wildly original Ex Machina in 211, has directed and adapted Annihilation.
Release date: February 23 Why it matters: Annihilation is Alex Garland's follow-up to his 2015 film Ex Machina.
But at a Beverly Hills interview about his newest film, Annihilation, he came across as confident but surprisingly humble.
Maximum effect with the first blow was crucial, preferably achieved by forcing an adversary into a "battle of annihilation".
The annihilation of parking lots is just one of the benefits of carsharing: Not everything about carsharing is perfect.
"At the point of crisis, at the point of annihilation, survival is victory," read the words across the screen.
While Garland has nothing against streaming services, he says that Annihilation was made with the big screen in mind.
In general, "Annihilation" is paced as if everyone behind and in front of the camera were dazed and confused.
But there's also bad news: Both leaders do have the capability to unleash nuclear annihilation at a moment's notice.
Thompson most recently starred opposite Hemsworth in Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok, as well as the sci-fi drama Annihilation.
"I wasn't really looking for someone to do an ironclad, faithful adaptation," he says in the Annihilation featurette above.
Some indigenes claim to be suffering the kind of cultural annihilation that befell Australia's Aborigines and New Zealand's Maoris.
The Naja barely escape violent annihilation and then establish an alliance with an exiled civilization endowed with supernatural abilities.
Why risk total annihilation against the German army when Italy's willing to negotiate an accord between the two countries?
America's most relentless foes can never be fully convinced or deterred by any threats of annihilation by doomsday weapons.
The measured language contrasted with his general assembly address, which threatened annihilation if the threats from North Korea continued.
Ambedkar believed that within a decade or two quotas would bring about "the annihilation of caste" and become unnecessary.
Instead, he sought a poetry that was truthful and perceptive enough to be trustworthy even when annihilation seemed imminent.
The twisting stems and blinking petals are, like the human-plant hybrids in Annihilation, uncanny but not wholly unpleasant.
Threats of nuclear annihilation exchanged by President Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have sown fears.
WOVEN INTO THE GROTESQUE details of this continuing annihilation of Myanmar's most helpless are vexing dilemmas about international complicity.
Joseph Dunford, who is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, elaborated on the annihilation campaign and its origins.
They, the others, were the "untermenschen," or sub-humans: the Jews destined for annihilation, the Slavs destined for slavery.
One lesson of its total annihilation was that a little man is capable of reducing the world to ruin.
This has led whichever party happens to be in the majority at times to threaten annihilation of the rule.
As Édouard Glissant said, terrorism cannot be fought with terrorism without risking the annihilation of human culture and society.
The reasons for adjustments to the time on the Doomsday Clock extend far beyond the risk of nuclear annihilation.
The resulting Cuban missile crisis almost led to World War III and the complete annihilation of the human race.
How do people, ordinary and extraordinary, react in the face of the incomprehensible, from total annihilation to the otherworldly?
The Positron Annihilation into Dark Matter Experiment (PADME) collaboration in Frascati, Italy also plans to search for the particle.
Any limited U.S. military intervention against North Korea could put Seoul, South Korea, at risk for annihilation within minutes.
That Annihilation is such a disquieting film to watch suggests this idea has at least some root in fact.
All of this means the annihilation of asylum as a legal remedy for the many who flee persecution each year.
If countries with nuclear weapons were to engage in nuclear warfare, mutually assured destruction would guarantee the annihilation of both.
If an unexplained amount of mass goes missing after the annihilation, it could be a signature of the dark boson.
And there are snippets of highfalutin, poetic, opaque voiceover that put the whole thing into a more Annihilation-esque light.
As for the live-action film, Deadline reports that the Annihilation star will appear in a "standalone" Carmen Sandiego adventure.
First of all: yes, that was Tessa Thompson (Thor, Annihilation) with some killer bangs and braids cuddling up on Monae.
It undulates and glistens like the weird alien biomass in Annihilation, with detonations of 808 bass resounding in the deep.
We're big fans of science fiction and Weird author Jeff VanderMeer and his Area X trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance).
But it is hard to watch "Annihilation" without having some sympathy for those Paramount executives who wanted rid of it.
Sober-minded adults who know things about business and markets and stuff go on podcasts and talk about nuclear annihilation.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been using a clock to represent the threat of nuclear annihilation since 1947.
This week on the MashReads Podcast, we read and discuss Annihilation, the first book in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy.
The movie, directed by first-timer Simon McQuoid, comes after 1995's Mortal Kombat and 1997's Mortal Kombat Annihilation.
The expectation that nation states will somehow save us from climate chaos or even nuclear annihilation needs to be retired.
The good news is that she's already wrapped a major role in Alex Garland's follow up to Ex Machina, Annihilation.
Then there is the continual annihilation of numerous habitats which both humanity and other species depend upon for their survival.
Especially for America's Jews, who watch, powerless, as relatives and friends disappear into the maw of the Nazis' annihilation machine.
It's one that still seems destined to arc toward a clash with wintry armies of annihilation, among other existential threats.
But predictability is essential to the stability that has protected us against nuclear annihilation for more than half a century.
Sometimes they even get knocked off by spiders, which given the abysmal annihilation capabilities of arachnids, is a genuine embarrassment.
It provides the upper tier of technical competency and the lower tier of complete annihilation of a player's self esteem.
We have all used phrases such as killing and annihilation when talking about sport, but not in the literal sense.
The end of "Annihilation" may have been confounding, but its largely wordless, beautifully choreographed climax had a deeper, subliminal logic.
A science-fiction fantasy spiked with baroque horror, "Annihilation" tells an enigmatic tale of love and death and alien invasion.
Surely he realizes that just as we can't attack him, he can attack neither us nor South Korea without annihilation.
Every thought of nuclear annihilation, every glimpse of Mr. Trump's angry visage, cracks open a door in the fourth dimension.
Street Fighter VThe Capcom Pro Tour announced the cancelation of Brussels Challenge 2020, Norcal Regionals 2020, and April Annihilation 2020.
Many asked themselves the same question during the Cold War, when the fear of nuclear annihilation reached a fever pitch.
Hitler also argued for the "irrevocable removal of the Jews," referring at this time to physical expulsion rather than annihilation.
"Putting people first" is the preservation ethos that saved my neighborhood from annihilation and to which I will always subscribe.
LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - President Francois Hollande has saved the ruling Socialists from electoral annihilation by not seeking a second term.
You've got Annihilation next to the Twilight series next to the Lethal Weapon franchise next to A Charlie Brown Valentine.
Things go very badly when Earth has to pass Jupiter, setting off a desperate scramble to save humanity from annihilation.
Rodriguez has one of her biggest movie roles to date in Annihilation, which came out at the end of February.
Or have they simply gotten so used to living under the threat of annihilation that they've become numb to it?
This, though, is surely the point of the Jägerbomb—it is vehemently anti-moderation, total annihilation in a dimpled tumbler.
"The friendship was basically that this guy salvaged me from certain professional and maybe personal annihilation — simple as that," he said.
We put on Annihilation after True Detective is finished, and the movie piques my interest much more than True Detective did.
Annihilation won several sci-fi literary awards, and is the first in a series of two other books, Authority and Acceptance.
And no matter what happens in that hearing, Ford speaking about her experience, in the face of that annihilation, will matter.
Predator, Serenity, and more recently The Last Jedi, Black Panther, and Annihilation — there has also been a long-running, noticeable scarcity.
They distill the best elements of their genre: energy, hooks, and experimentation, into weapons of​ concentrated pop annihilation and undeniable swagger.
With half the episode set in the village, we're set up to truly care about it and fear its speedy annihilation.
In Britain, the Liberal Democrats' decision to join the Conservative-led coalition in 2010 was an act of self-inflicted annihilation.
Approach Area X, the strange landscape at the heart of Annihilation, with the same trepidation and curiosity as the movie's explorers.
Annihilation switches between the violent weirdness of Area X, and Lena's (Natalie Portman) conventional life with her husband, Kane (Oscar Isaac).
Annihilation, a sci-fi film based on novels by Jeff VanderMeer, is under fire for whitewashing two of its main characters.
Join us as we talk about the mysterious Area X, VanderMeer's unique approach to suspense, and what makes Annihilation so singular.
But also, mostly, because Murray's passing came a day after president Trump again flippantly threatened a whole nation with nuclear annihilation.
The old karate mantra of ikken hissatsu or "one strike, certain annihilation" is a good training philosophy, not a guaranteed outcome.
It looks like Jack's struggle with alcohol is bringing him and the rest of us one step closer to complete annihilation.
And when ISIS threatened annihilation of the Yezidis on Mount Sinjar, the APB helped galvanize a U.S. military and humanitarian intervention.
Benjamin Lee, The Guardian: While reportedly taking giant left turns from its source material, there's still something admirably uncompromising about Annihilation.
Despite its population's annihilation almost 2,000 years ago, Pompeii's streets still swell and hum with life every day of the year.
"The Seventh Victim is a vicious little masterpiece of self-annihilation, where society is more damning than the Satanists," says Duncan.
This is important right now, as it feels as though we might be on the precipice of nuclear annihilation once again.
The world that Mr. Garland has created in "Annihilation" is larger than that of "Ex-Machina," more complex and intricately detailed.
In the Old Testament, Susa is best known as the place where Esther outwitted Haman to save the Jews from annihilation.
In pulling out of Syria, Trump exposed the Kurds, America's longtime allies, to annihilation, which has been Turkish President Erdoğan's goal.
There, they would save the tiny Pusan perimeter in four weeks and keep a handful of U.S. Army troops from annihilation.
In its tone and stylized look, "Annihilation" brings to mind "Arrival," another recent science-fiction film that dabbled in big ideas.
When assault could not be avoided, Soviet forces applied their planning norms for extraordinarily heavy "annihilation" (unichtozhenie) levels of artillery bombardment.
It came to symbolize oppression of Christians after ISIS used the letter to mark the doorposts of those targeted for annihilation.
His science fiction—notably the movies Ex Machina and Annihilation, and now Devs—tends to eschew "engage-the-neutrino-drive!" technobabble.
If there was a theme in the email, it was an existential one: We must act, and act now or face annihilation.
Earlier this week, a trailer for the adaptation of VanderMeer's novel Annihilation hit the web, showing off Alex Garland's highly anticipated film.
And I also once tried to send a friend the entire Wikipedia plot of Annihilation to charge him for a movie ticket.
And what we found is that it's hard for dark-matter annihilation or decay to contribute a lot to that particular process.
Annihilation is a movie so prepared to alienate audiences that it comes with its own built-in version of a dissatisfied viewer.
Melancholia's Justine, who is named after the "heroine" of the novel by the Marquis de Sade, desires nothing more than absolute annihilation.
And this protected us from annihilation, simply because there were too many of us in too many different places to wipe out.
The Annihilation star only fueled the comparisons further while portraying Brown's beloved character, Eleven, during a recent skit on Saturday Night Live.
The Jane the Virgin star plays a paramedic charged with helping to save the world in the 2017 sci-fi film Annihilation.
Alex Garland's Annihilation, the mind-bending science fiction journey into the world of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach books, is an astounding film.
The eruption of Vesuvius, and the subsequent annihilation of nearby towns, was a tragedy that turned, over centuries, into an archaeological opportunity.
The prospect of a President Trump forces us to ask if the threat of mutual annihilation is necessary or sustainable in perpetuity.
The Jane the Virgin star talked about supporting the Time's Up movement in Hollywood, her upcoming movie Annihilation and dealing with anxiety.
For 45 years, America was locked in the Cold War with the Soviet Union and fear of global nuclear annihilation was constant.
Paramount's fourth weekend of "Annihilation" and Sony's 13th weekend of "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" tied for 11th place with $1.7 million.
"The collision caused mutual annihilation of the quasiparticles and the emission of a photon, which the authors detected," van der Marel explains.
Given a choice, however, most would prefer a regular trouncing under the divisive Mr Cruz than the electoral annihilation Mr Trump threatens.
And, fantastically, the protagonists of the game defeat the annihilation of all life by entering into a strategic alliance with their planet.
Over the weekend, the Annihilation actress, 31, showed off her freshly shorn undercut on Instagram with an inspiring message to her fans.
The United States' decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem brings Israel closer to "annihilation," a high-ranking Iranian official said.
Aaliyah Bisamber of St. Croix shot video of Maria's annihilation of her old house, which was right next to her new home.
During the Cold War, MAD (mutually assured destruction) kept the super-powers from starting a conflict that might end in global annihilation.
For many liberals, these conditions were anathema, but without the institutional backing of a party they faced annihilation in the impending election.
He has made the country and world a more dangerous place with his bullying bravado, isolationistic actions, and threats of military annihilation.
They lived through wars, and they grappled with the specter of cruelty and annihilation in their own work with near-reckless courage.
Even "Paradigm Shift - Annihilation" from the band's blackened debut features an extended industrial break and samples that are absolutely to its benefit.
Isn't the imperative to halt our possibly fatal march to annihilation via human-made environmental destruction the same regardless of extraterrestrial life?
The Vatican's deal, struck in the name of unifying the Church in China, means the annihilation of the real Church in China.
" He is seen as the traitorous agent of Poland's dissolution within the European Union and NATO — what Kaczynski has called "self-annihilation.
" In her assessment, Mr. Trump "careened wildly from some warped form of principled realism to threats of mass annihilation and back again.
Envy toward these groups becomes volatile, mutating into anger and spurring the most extreme forms of discrimination — intentional harm and even annihilation.
"Annihilation" raises the possibility that from this point on, everything we read is a hallucination produced by these spores: a fungal narration.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists created the clock in 1947 to represent how close the planet was to annihilation by nuclear weapons.
After touching the rock, a person relinquishes her humanity and becomes a murderous, super-powered grass-humanoid (like Tessa Thompson in Annihilation).
Similarly, the annihilation of Sharon Tate's would-be killers has to be at least as brutal as what they themselves were contemplating.
Mr. Reznor sings — and whispers and rants — about sickness, rot, insanity and annihilation, and about consciousness trapped in crumbling bodies and minds.
That was enough to edge Paramount's sci-fi thriller "Annihilation" with a respectable $11 million at 2,683 venues, in line with forecasts.
Known for his Southern Reach trilogy, including "Annihilation," VanderMeer returns with an eco-horror novel set in a post-climate change future.
It's Sugarloaf beach in Guadeloupe, one of the French West Indies (or Antilles), and it very narrowly escaped annihilation by Hurricane Irma.
Loyal fans who pre-ordered their new album, Morbid Stuff, for example, were sent an annihilation preparedness kit in an inflatable raft.
Dark matter doesn't emit or absorb light, and is instead detected via X-rays from the decay or annihilation of dark matter particles.
And all of this rewriting of history is to say nothing of Carlson's calls for the annihilation of Iran during the Obama administration.
Like a mirror, Mr Loznitsa's film reflects and inverts that process, using fiction to expose the wounds inflicted by the annihilation of truth.
While the threat of total nuclear annihilation is still uncertain in the United States, folks in Japan have more reason to be concerned.
The first book in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Annihilation, frightened us in a pure, visceral, flashlight-under-your-blanket kind of way.
To stave off annihilation, a small underground movement of digital preservationists is fighting hard to spare the little Flash games from their fate.
Annihilation is followed by two other novels, Authority and Acceptance, but it's not clear if Garland is planning to adapt those as well.
Annihilation is based on a novel by Jeff VanderMeer, and it's one of the best horror novels to come out in recent years.
When North Korea fired six missiles into the sea this week, for example, no one thought South Korea was at danger of annihilation.
Annihilation is far from being the first film to be criticized for casting white people in roles written for Asians or Native Americans.
The actress is fresh off the heels of her latest film, Annihilation, and she recently made her directorial debut on Jane The Virgin.
She came by set once but I think you had already wrapped - they were shooting Annihilation at Pinewood while we were winding down.
Leave it to Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd to save the world from nuclear annihilation and make us laugh while they do it.
Nor was Nagasaki's Urakami cathedral, the largest Christian structure in the Asia-Pacific region, a particular object of that city's annihilation in 1945.
They are like gentle souls from another era, whose feelings and memories have not surrendered to the desperation and annihilation brought by war.
Before Corbyn won, Tony Blair warned that his victory would mean "the party won't just face defeat but annihilation" at the next election.
Let's see, what else is going on in the world of music that can serve as an entertaining distraction from impending global annihilation?
I think about how much the fear of annihilation of the Cold War — the sense that everybody could die — warped politics for generations.
Xi Jinping, China's president, has said that reducing property inventory is a "battle of annihilation" that must be won to revitalise the economy.
That tone manifests in black jumpsuits, the constant loss of loved ones, and an dour outlook in the face of near-constant annihilation.
Not so with the White Walkers, that ancient race of ice creatures that threatens utter annihilation (and zombiedom) to the humans of Westeros.
What must it be like to anticipate your child's slow annihilation, the construction of his tomb, brick by brick, even as he lives?
They need to know that if they don't start complying, there are going to be real and lasting consequences -- namely, well, total annihilation.
I thought that the storm was a symptom of the annihilation of the entirety of human existence localized into this one particular manifestation.
We had a good run, but between Donald Trump and the threat of nuclear annihilation I'm ready to get off this stinking rock.
The supposed existence of weapons of mass destruction provided a pretext for Iraq's annihilation, which allowed Iran to vandalize an enormous Arab nation.
For both leaders, who less than a year ago threatened each other's country with nuclear annihilation, there are compelling reasons to talk peace.
This is not a retirement or an annihilation; it is simply a demonstration of a new staccato nature where there was once regularity.
Like other Jewish émigrés writing in the postwar era, Morgenthau found in the Holocaust the closest parallel to the prospect of nuclear annihilation.
For Chidi, it is an especially pressing concern: He's devising a new afterlife system that will prevent the imminent, instantaneous annihilation of humanity.
The Iraqi minorities, including the Yazidis, have repeatedly told the international community that they face existential threats and are at risk of annihilation.
What's more, the Catholic Church has taken a significant part in the annihilation of indigenous people and the justification and perpetuation of slavery.
Instead, the movement chose to embrace family values, preferring to fight for the reform—rather than the annihilation—of the nuclear family structure.
But hydrogen bombs can pack 1,000 times the destructive energy — a terrifying fact of atomic life that generated widespread fear of mutual annihilation.
And it's likely the rotting corpses of thousands upon thousands of walkers waltzing right past the last barrier keeping Westeros from total annihilation.
To the consternation of many at home, Russia appears to reprising Cold War threats to rain nuclear annihilation on the U.S. if attacked.
These picks cover the devastation of tsunamis, earthquakes and wildfires; the Spanish flu epidemic of 27.953; mass extinctions; the potential for nuclear annihilation.
As she first proved in last year's Annihilation, Rodriguez has some solid action hero chops lurking under her enviable Jane the Virgin bombshell hair.
How to watch it: Annihilation is available on Blu-Ray and DVD, and for digital purchase on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, YouTube, and Google Play.
Photo: GettyThe first major step toward the annihilation of a free and open internet takes place this morning, and you can witness it live.
The Annihilation actress closed out her statement by saying that the entire ordeal has inspired her to support a number of charities in Israel.
In other words, we shouldn't really be surprised that the DVD for Annihilation, which comes out May 29, would pull a stunt like this.
Nearly 75 years later it's time again to ask technologists, innovators, entrepreneurs and academics: will you be party to the 'ruthless annihilation of cities'?
Update: Natalie Portman has responded to claims that her casting in the sci-fi film Annihilation is yet another example of whitewashing in Hollywood.
The English referee looked on in bewilderment as Perceval failed to call a halt to the proceedings during Magny's second round annihilation of 'Showeather'.
After wowing everyone with Ex Machina, Alex Garland is back with a new sci-fi film — an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 novel Annihilation.
What it lacks in size, though, it makes up for in preciousness: Running here is a experiment that could help save corals from annihilation.
This is a mystical tradition that involves a "quieting" of the conscious mind, a withdrawal into the deepest layers of self, even self-annihilation.
He cannot, on the one hand, profess a commitment to Israel's security while, on the other choosing to ignore Iran's commitment to Israel's annihilation.
If you're a gamer who somehow managed to avoid the complete and utter annihilation of your bank account on Black Friday this year — congratulations!
There is no scenario more unimaginable than the United States taking the chance of setting off a chain reaction that ends in total annihilation.
Variety reports that Scott Rudin and Eli Bush, who are producing Annihilation, will also produce Borne, which is expected to publish in May 2017.
That was in 1941, not a good year for Jews anywhere, particularly in Europe, where, while Lindbergh opined, the annihilation of Jewry had begun.
The Cold War was one of the most trying times for both Americans and Russians, who constantly lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the 2018 film Annihilation, an alien intelligence transforms a swath of coastal wilderness into a mutated landscape.
But the Holocaust is generally understood to refer to Adolf Hitler's systematic annihilation of European Jews, ultimately claiming roughly 6 million of their lives.
It's a world where illusions are being constantly shattered, which may lead to a rebirth out of the ashes or just straight-up annihilation.
The rhetoric is part of a jarring shift for Trump, who last year dubbed Kim "Little Rocket Man" and threatened him with nuclear annihilation.
Devs has got fans of Alex Garland's particular brand of weird (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Never Let Me Go, and Sunshine) all kinds of excited.
Let's say that "Annihilation," currently in theaters, didn't fill your quota for intelligent, horror-infused science fiction with a sizable debt to Andrei Tarkovsky.
The United Nations human rights chief, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, called what is going on in Ghouta a "monstrous campaign of annihilation" on Wednesday.
A rational leader can take risky actions, but they wouldn't purposely do something that would foreseeably lead to the total annihilation of their country.
In a country that has suffered three long years of annihilation at the hands of ISIS, the desire for revenge on perpetrators is overwhelming.
Some darker scientific news: The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of concerns about humanity's annihilation, was advanced by 21926 seconds to 234 minutes to midnight.
So why do we still have these things if they put us in a state of constant, if low-level, risk of global annihilation?
And yet The City We Became is a masterpiece of eldritch urban fantasy, a glorious annihilation of the racism in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
But today, the camps, the floods of refugees, the annihilation of cities and nature that Grossman documented seem much closer to our own reality.
Catching my dog in the act is one way to save my stuff from total annihilation, but I'm not always around to stop her.
Like a great number of my contemporaries, I became hooked on the narrative of nuclear annihilation, and via that obsession I started to plan.
"I categorize the videos into four groups," he says, sorting them according to whether they show testimonials, surveillance, destruction of mosques, or cultural annihilation.
In recent years (at first barely noted in the West), an annihilation of the language, religion and culture of Muslim Uighurs has proceeded systematically.
Reduced to a fraction of the territory it once controlled, the group that once swept across Iraq and Syria now faces total territorial annihilation.
The annihilation of the peoples who lived here before we did, and how much of America was built on the backs of enslaved Africans.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif earlier warned in a tweet that the U.S. policy document posed the risk of "bringing humankind closer to annihilation".
"Peace and international stability are incompatible with attempts to build upon the fear of mutual destruction or the threat of total annihilation," he said.
In fact, the closest Silicon Valley came to annihilation wasn't at the hands of politicians and regulators, but rather at those of Bill Gates.
In fact, the closest Silicon Valley came to annihilation wasn't at the hands of politicians and regulators, but rather at those of Bill Gates.
The artist has systematically imposed on them a vibrating restlessness through labyrinthine extensions and doublings, making their flesh undergo steps of annihilation into transubstantiation.
"Together we can prevent the annihilation of tribal peoples," says Rylance, who has been an ambassador for the London-based human rights group since 2010.
His photos, just like the lives of those who used to operate these nuclear sites, presents a harmony of a mundane life and total annihilation.
Phantasmagoric touches permeated Season 2 of Atlanta, and the heady sci-fi feature Annihilation included imagery (and a creature) out of an acid-trip nightmare.
Alien is the first in a line of stellar sci-fi movies helmed by women (Ex Machina and Annihilation being some of the most recent).
In another tweet a minute later, he threatened North Korea with nuclear annihilation by bragging about the size of his "button," which doesn't even exist.
Annihilation, Eighth Grade, Leave No Trace, and Support the Girls didn't break the box office, although at least a few of them probably should have.
"The friendship was basically that this guy salvaged me from certain professional and maybe personal annihilation — simple as that," said Mr. Pop, who is 68.
The harsh assessment came after three very poorly received science-fiction films aired on the streaming platform, namely "The Cloverfield Paradox", "Mute" and "Annihilation". 9.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ("The arc of history is long," she writes, "but it bends toward catastrophic annihilation") as incentive to action not defeatism.
Annihilation, the book, follows the twelfth expedition of investigators tasked with exploring Area X, a mysterious bio-dome that has popped up on the coast.
Most recently, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un spent much of late 2017 and early 2018 trading threats of annihilation.
Annihilation tells the story of former US Army soldier and current Johns Hopkins biologist Lena and her mission into a strange anomaly called The Shimmer.
Any potential offensive action on the part of North Korea, nuclear or conventional, will result in the near certain and immediate annihilation of the regime.
On the docket are voice roles in The Star (as the Virgin Mary) and Ferdinand, as well as the movie adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation.
This much is clear: Impending global annihilation brings out the dissembling side of public institutions, whether it's the United States government or the Catholic Church.
It begins with various forms of darkness (intense, pitch, Cimmerian) and moves, without transition, into a list of card games — balancing annihilation against child's play.
Like so much of Garland's previous work, specifically the colorful anxiety of Annihilation and the tense pace of Ex Machina, Devs will stick with you.
"Cherokee America" is an essential corrective to the racially tinged myths created to justify the annihilation of indigenous cultures and the theft of native lands.
White power is a social movement that has united neo-Nazis, Klansmen, skinheads, and militiamen around a shared fear of racial annihilation and cultural change.
No individual ought to be entrusted with the unchecked power to initiate annihilation, even if he or she has been elected to the White House.
Four years before, he had given a speech to the Bosnian Assembly threatening Muslims with "annihilation" if they voted to secede from the disintegrating Yugoslavia.
The timing of her speech, as communism was crumbling, was no coincidence: she cast climate change as the successor menace to socialism and nuclear annihilation.
So I do find myself recommending Jawaharlal Nehru's The Discovery of India and B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste, two masterpieces that most Americans have not read.
As distance grew between Trump's political aspirations and his ability to initiate global annihilation, the tech community would have been increasingly willing to forgive and forget.
In the wake of this annihilation, one might think Weinstein would shut up — or if that's not possible, empower his representatives to make him shut up.
If Garland's first feature, 2015's Ex Machina, suggested the eventual subjugation of humans to their more intelligent, machine creations, Annihilation takes it one step further.
Block-by-block fighting and so-called "annihilation tactics" (a decision to wipe out IS fighters rather than let them flee) destroyed much of the area.
Somalia's prime minister urged the public to remains calm and called the attack on a civilian target was a desperate move by a group facing annihilation.
And as always we close the show with recommendations: Dustin, Mashable's art director who join us to talk about Annihilation, recommends The Power by Naomi Alderman.
As if picking a fight with Tyrant wasn't enough, Bored Thanos later chose to side with a universe-threatening force during the Annihilation arc of comics.
Annihilation (release date unknown) Ex Machina was a rare film; a smart, relatively low-budget science-fiction thriller in which suspense was more important than spectacle.
This week, he used the incongruous setting of a photo op at Trump National Golf Course in New Jersey to threaten North Korea with nuclear annihilation.
There appears to be little prospect of Mr Trump moderating his positions, by lurching to the more ameliorative centre that Republican leaders—fearing electoral annihilation—recommend.
At the beginning of the Cold war, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday clock to 2 minutes till midnight -- midnight meaning nuclear annihilation.
In September, Paramount released the first trailer for Ex Machina director Alex Garland's next science fiction thriller Annihilation, showing off an expedition entering a bizarre world.
Instead, political history and fortune took a turn that made nuclear annihilation less likely—even though the risk of a nuclear war may since have risen.
She changed her name to Helena Kowalska, passed herself off as a Catholic, found work on a farm, and survived Germany's attempted annihilation of European Jewry.
The world is the closest it's been in more than 60 years to annihilation from nuclear war and climate change, a group of scientists warned Thursday.
The expressionless puppeteers become one with their puppets, moving as if by mechanical reflex in what feels like a ghastly and inevitable historical march toward annihilation.
That said, it remains unlikely that Kim would attempt a preemptive strike against the U.S. since it would almost certainly result in his regime's total annihilation.
Seeing Hamas as a terrorist organization bent on Israel's annihilation, the Israeli government has no interest in lending Hamas legitimacy or allowing it to gather strength.
In a different sphere, for example, Mr. Trump went from threatening North Korea with nuclear annihilation to acting as if they were old friends practically overnight.
We have gotten complacent about nuclear warfare and the potential for global catastrophic annihilation (though climate change is also a serious threat that worries me greatly).
Within days, the Trump administration reversed itself on an Affordable Care Act lawsuit, announcing that it now supports a complete court-ordered annihilation of the law.
The global wolf pack The writings and actions of today's white terrorists make it clear they see themselves as crusaders in a worldwide battle against annihilation.
The world is the closest it's been to total annihilation since the early days of the Cold War, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned Thursday.
We have much to learn from confidence-building measures adopted during the Cold War to diminish risks of nuclear annihilation from needless provocation and accidental war.
When Mr. Murphy first proposed the revival, Mr. Mantello worried that the play, bristling with gay self-loathing and mutual annihilation, was too campy and dated.
Mr. Brown said the threat of nuclear annihilation should be treated more like an ongoing emergency, though he knows it's tough to wrap your mind around.
The two purchased the handsome midcentury house, a short drive from the modest ranch they had lived in since 1992, after "Annihilation" was optioned for development.
October 31st Netflix description: The Annihilation Tournament rages on: corporate leaders jockey for the Kengan chairmanship while their gladiators beat each other bloody in the ring.
They give bodily form to a culture's deepest anxieties — about technological progress, about environmental destruction, about economic collapse and nuclear annihilation and the banality of evil.
He was "held" to 26 in that fourth showdown, a disorienting 23-point annihilation in which Cleveland showed how unafraid they were of Thomas' supporting cast.
This willingness to put actors, and in turn the characters they play, out of their comfort zones, is part of what makes Annihilation such a striking film.
Our hands tremble as we type this... OK, not really, but the first installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Annihilation, is not for the horror-averse.
Somehow, the movie expects us to care enough about them to agree that their love is worth putting HALF THE GODDAMN GALAXY'S POPULATION AT RISK OF ANNIHILATION.
If that game broke with the past by reinterpreting death-as-progress, then Torment has broken with Planescape by allowing us to interpret death-as-self-annihilation.
He thinks exercise is bad, is a notorious liar, cheated on his wives, hates dogs, and enthusiastically against taking measures to protect the Earth from human annihilation.
Annihilation is some heady nightmare fuel, but its most striking quality may be how little it has in common with the current trends in mainstream science fiction.
What we need is more Lenas of Annihilation, Lorraine Broughtons of Atomic Blonde, and Dianas of Wonder Women — more women characters who crackle with originality and specificity.
An asteroid crashed into what is now Chicxulub, Mexico, and set off a catastrophic chain of events that led to the annihilation of the non-avian dinosaurs.
Longtime fans may remember the short-lived attempt to turn Mortal Kombat into a blockbuster action film series, with the 1995 film and its 1997 sequel, Annihilation.
If you're looking for something a bit more horrifying (as if these futures aren't terrifying enough) look no further than Jeff Vandermeer's novels Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance.
But facing annihilation at the hands of Donald J. Trump, Mr. Bush has taken up the mantle of what his brother labeled "compassionate conservatism" with new vigor.
To prevent the potential annihilation of the human race, two astronomers from Columbia University are proposing that Earth use lasers to hide itself from potential alien foes.
Lemkin and later scholars conceived of genocide as a process, moving from stigmatisation and dehumanisation through violence and terror to eventual annihilation ("in whole or in part").
Netflix is also handling the international release of Alex Garland's anticipated adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, which Paramount will release theatrically in North America on February 23rd.
In that sense, Annihilation the book doubles as a parable about climate change and the ways the human race is destroying the planet in cancerous, uncontrollable ways.
In the spoiler-sensitive environment of today's entertainment, there may be people who resent the opening scenes of Annihilation, which gives away most of the movie's direction.
That brings me to another reason way Annihilation was so extraordinary: The vast majority of the main characters in this inventive, and undeniably gory, novel were women.
"Reese has been a wonderful support system in teaching me the ways of modernity," she joked during an interview with Entertainment Tonight, alongside Annihilation costar Oscar Isaac.
Mr Bowie was there at the turning point; his song "Five Years" says more about impending annihilation than a shelf full of reports from the RAND Corporation.
In fact, if North Korea were to launch nuclear missiles at the United States, it would certainly result in the annihilation of Kim and his ruling regime.
Alex Garland's Annihilation diverges pretty wildly from its source material, to the extent that fans of Jeff VanderMeer's novel may want to brace themselves for some surprises.
Trump seems to be either flirting with the idea of nuclear annihilation, or quite simply ignorant of the vast nuclear arsenal America has accumulated over the years.
"We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea, but as I said, we have many options to do so," he said.
"We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea, but as I said, we have many options to do so," Mattis said.
There are no shortcuts to the hard work of building confidence between two nations that, just a few months ago, were threatening each other with nuclear annihilation.
After the Soviet Union detonated its first known nuclear device somewhere in Kazakhstan on August 29, 1949, US anxieties about the threat of nuclear annihilation rose significantly.
It's one of the few places where you can enjoy one of the most unique ecosystems in the world while also contemplating the prospect of total annihilation.
Annihilation — which just released its second trailer — is written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina) and based on Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 novel of the same name.
The sinister tangos with the madcap in "Ideation," a comedy that satirizes office politics and skewers groupthink, even as its annihilation scenario comes to seem unsettlingly plausible.
It all pretty much goes down hill from there: drinking blood from a monkey's skull, carbon monoxide ingestion, and some Godzilla-like annihilation of a cardboard city.
As such, it's morbidly fitting that the year's most prevalent trend was one which renounced all the grand ideals of "club culture" and simply celebrated self-annihilation.
Devs is ultimately a show about cause and effect and what "free will" means, which is a pretty big theme in Garland's previous work (Ex Machina, Annihilation).
The scientists believe the planet is closer to nuclear annihilation than at any time since 1953, just after the United States decided to develop the hydrogen bomb.
"I feel like I can't see those movies again, like 'Black Panther' or 'Annihilation,' which makes me really sad, because I love movies so much," she said.
Made in 1962, at the height of Cold War anxiety about nuclear annihilation, it is set in a Paris that has been razed by World War III.
Charlotte Whitton, an Ottawa mayor who frequently clashed with him over his efforts to skirt zoning rules, once said his houses made a case for nuclear annihilation.
Sara Johnsen's comic tear-jerker has a wobbly tone and sketchy plot, but Ruby Dagnall as the girl and Tuva Novotny ("Annihilation") as her rescuer are terrific.
Sometimes artists cherry-picked elements of these new international artworks to meet the local conversation, but sometimes the performative annihilation of an outside authority was the purpose.
But the hypnotizing power display of vast organizations which exhibited and glorified power, trained man — without necessity — to recklessness and the unquestioning acceptance of death and annihilation.
Whereas Kim Jong Un threatens nuclear retaliation if attacked, Putin threatens nuclear annihilation if his enemies meddle with his regime, and he decides what, how and when.
Between threats of nuclear annihilation, brinkmanship, and attacks on South Korea, Kim has kept a firm grip on power throughout, and his people have very few freedoms.
The collision happened at half the speed of light, and resulted in the release of a burst of energy equivalent to the complete annihilation of three suns.
In fact, though its parallels to Stalker are undeniable and Garland has an established track record in the science-fiction genre, Annihilation feels wholly unexpected and raw.
Annihilation is the sort of film that lodges itself in your brain and makes you turn it over and over again as it settles in your bones.
Synthetic cannabinoids were never the problem; the problem was the fact people have been selling stronger and stronger products to get ahead of their competitors, such as Annihilation.
Without the Campus Clash tour, there's no campus clashing; without campus clashes, there's no opportunity to fetishize the "win," the moment of destruction, the annihilation of opposing ideas.
"Why do they want to come in and instill the pre-revolution system, which was all about oppression and the annihilation of an entire people," said Nora Hassan.
With otherworldly creatures plaguing the landscape, and mass extinction imminent, it's up to Sam Porter Bridges to travel across the ravaged wasteland and save humanity from impending annihilation.
There's nothing fancy to it: it's simply stills of Thompson from films like Thor or Annihilation, or red carpet appearances, and goats dressed similarly or doing similar actions.
Not only did she save the entire world from wintery annihilation, but on the same exact night, she also lost her virginity to a sexy blacksmith. Yas. Kween.
Annihilation is a reminder that, for all our "civilization," humans can be boiled down to cells, just like the trees we cut down and the deer we hunt.
But the boy agonizes over his status as a shelterless social pariah, as well as his potentially impending nuclear annihilation, and that destroys his relationship with his father.
Their solemnity and the way they internalize their reactions keep Annihilation from being any sort of conventional horror story, where overt terror is usually central to the story.
In other words, caring about the far future doesn't mean just paying attention to low-probability risks of total annihilation; it also means acting on pressing needs now.
It was set to be distributed by Paramount, but when test audiences were nonplussed, and Mr Garland refused to compromise his vision, the studio offloaded "Annihilation" onto Netflix.
Oscar Isaac and Alex Garland are teaming back up for Garland's new movie Annihilation, an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's beguiling 2014 sci-fi novel of the same name.
Thanks to fate (or a craving for french fries), Tulip, Jesse, and Cassidy survived the annihilation of Annville and decided to hit the road in search of answers.
Ambulances come around five times a week to pick up those who've keeled over from too much Annihilation or Vertex, the two brands currently most common in Manchester.
"Little Rocket Man": Put aside the potential for nuclear annihilation inherent in taunting the unstable dictator of a rogue regime and it's just hard to beat this one.
SEOUL, South Korea — Several months ago, South Koreans considered President Trump as dangerous as North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, as the two traded threats of nuclear annihilation.
He understands why fans are upset, particularly with how the game makes nuclear annihilation—the gloomy background for all Fallout games—into a player-versus-player game mechanic.
The president's tweet produced several condemnations of Twitter, from those arguing that the service was not only a distraction but also left them worried about their own annihilation.
The Pictures artists, so-called, were born in Cold War America, during the schizoid cultural meshing of unparalleled national prosperity with the daily threat of looming nuclear annihilation.
" (The man's reaction to this is unclear.) Admiration for rad cars often morphs into an urge for authoritarian self-­annihilation: "I pray that I might die for you!
The Capcom Pro Tour will remove Brussels Challenge 2020, Norcal Regionals 2020 and April Annihilation 2020 from its calendar due to concerns over the outbreak of the coronavirus.
"We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea," U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said after meeting Trump and his national security team.
Last year, the Annihilation actor was accused of erasing black women during an interview she had with Grown-ish star Yara Shahidi while they promoted the film Smallfoot.
For his fans, both longtime genre readers and newer ones who found his work through the best-selling "Annihilation" and its film adaptation, this statement may seem counterintuitive.
New research suggests its sporadic dimming is not caused by swarms of comets or an alien megastructure, but rather an abandoned exomoon caught in the throes of annihilation.
"We actually expect [annihilation signals] to happen at quite a significant rate, so these things have the potential to just be glowing sources in the sky," Unwin said.
In the 20153s, the scientists feared nuclear annihilation, and since then, the board has begun to consider other existential threats, including climate change, compromised biosecurity and artificial intelligence.
It shows what it's like to live amid a terrifying call-out culture, a vengeful game of moral one-upsmanship in which social annihilation can come any second.
Yet, if this week's announcement proves anything, it's that species can be returned from the brink of annihilation, so long as the will (and the wealth) is there.
Annihilation is Garland's first feature since 2014's Ex Machina and reunites the director with Isaac, amid a significantly larger cast than his breakout indie sci-fi thriller.
Recorded in Chicago this June, Annihilation marks the fastest turnaround to date for a new Oswalt special, but he has more than enough new material to justify it.
While Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un may be bluffing about his willingness to spark such a conflict, the White House under Donald Trump has issued numerous threats of annihilation.
The last time the world was this close to nuclear annihilation, in the 1980s, the need to prevent nuclear war was front and center in the nation's political discourse.
The shorn gum print, the broken marble, the dashed commercial hopes and annihilation of minutely mapped feng shui; horrified interns, livid gallerists, scandalized gallery-goers, my reputation forever demolished.
Eventually this bound state will probably annihilate, so it would destroy itself in the same way that dark-matter annihilation usually works, providing a cascade of Standard Model particles.
Sitting outside of the same Arby's, he was lacking the Emmy — having lost at Monday's show in the same category, where he was nominated for his Netflix special, Annihilation.
Prior to the film's release in February, Paramount announced that while Annihilation would hit theaters in the U.S., Canada, and China, the international distribution would be handled by Netflix.
But to give too much emphasis to those unanswered questions is to treat Annihilation like it's a different sort of movie, one that's trying to gratify rather than unsettle.
That's where a difference in worldviews looms large: Existential risk researchers are extremely concerned with the difference between the annihilation of humanity and mass casualties that humanity can survive.
An arms-outstretched invocation of human annihilation isn't the most obvious note on which to end a summer popcorn movie, especially one that's as gleefully dumb as Fallen Kingdom.
In 2005, Columbia Pictures began work on a feature film with future Annihilation and Ex Machina director Alex Garland writing the screenplay, and with Neill Blomkamp slated to direct.
FOR weeks, the Syrian regime has been sending text messages warning residents of the rebel-held eastern half of Aleppo that they face "annihilation" unless they leave the city.
That's partly because the threat of nuclear annihilation suddenly seemed much less immediate now that the world's two largest nuclear powers had stopped pointing their missiles at each other.
In the cold war a generation of statesmen, chastened by conflict and the near-catastrophe of the Cuban missile crisis, used arms control to lessen the risk of annihilation.
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, a slim sci-fi novel with a lime-green cover, was blowing my mind sentence by sentence — and I had to let the world know.
It's also what allowed us to read real-world metaphors into a fantasy show, seeing the worldwide threat as global warming, nuclear annihilation, or the hubris of human exceptionalism.
The so-called Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close the world is to total annihilation, was moved 20073 seconds closer to midnight in a press conference this morning.
For many on the right who believe they are faced with demographic "annihilation" that would push them to the edge of a political cliff, Trumpism was their last stand.
The Annihilation actor, who's on the latest cover of GQ Style, told the magazine that there were "tons of reasons" why he popped the question to the documentary filmmaker.
The finale's portrayal of Wonder Woman finding strength in love seems closer to Marston's ideal, while the annihilation of Ares seems more in line with her New 52 characterization.
"The Holocaust was the state-sponsored systematic persecution and attempted annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazi regime and its collaborators," a Monday release from the White House reads.
A few spoilers below, but one that isn't, in any case, is that Archangel opens in 2016 on a world, almost ours, that has been decimated by nuclear annihilation.
"The Sculptor's Funeral" is one instance; another is " Paul's Case ," the widely anthologized story of a young aesthete who chooses self-annihilation over the dreariness of a routine existence.
The film industry similarly lags, featuring few queer women characters in wide-release, studio-supported movies, despite the recent successes of projects like Booksmart, Annihilation, Blockers, and The Favourite.
The United States has spent the last three decades free from the fear of nuclear annihilation, thanks in large part to a rational combination of threats, diplomacy, and reassurance.
" It's worth noting the 1939 Obersalzberg speech by Adolf Hitler about his genocidal plans, in which he asked, "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
The three Kims presided over regimes that spewed — and still spew — bombastic and murderous threats of annihilation far removed from the Marxist-laden pronouncements from the Cold War Kremlin.
Mr. Lee is accused of turning over sensitive information to Beijing that led to the near-complete annihilation of the CIA's undercover network in mainland China beginning in 2010.
He knows that if he launched a nuclear weapon against the United States that the U.S. could potentially retaliate with enough force to totally annihilation the regime and country.
To be sure, American-Russian hostility is nowhere near the height of the Cold War, when the world came close to annihilation in confrontations like the Cuban Missile Crisis.
There can be nothing else for the player in this world, and making the choice of self-annihilation creates a void in the world where the player once was.
Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom … Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution … but from annihilation.
It said May's proposals were subjected to a "systematic and forensic annihilation" this week at a meeting between senior EU officials and Olly Robbins, the UK's lead Brexit negotiator.
They never rest their conclusions on one document, particularly in this instance, when there is a vast cache of evidence attesting to a government-directed program of mass annihilation.
His penchant for watching the annihilation of the entire planet is a bit tougher to unpack, but hey—he probably derives some weird sense of satisfaction from that, too.
Rather than seize opportunities to push back on Iranian power while pursuing the annihilation of the Islamic State, Team Trump has largely embraced Obama-era nonpolicies in both states.
Then Setsuko goes off to another day of work, a day like any other except that now she's deep in a story about identity, self-annihilation and stubborn existence.
Mr. Garland likes to play with tones, mixing deadpan in with the frights, and later "Annihilation" becomes something of a head movie, swirling with cosmic and menacingly lysergic visions.
It's significant, then, that she chose the word "annihilation," and not mockery or stigma or threats or harassment, all things she's faced in the weeks since she came forward.
Yet through all the craziness — and the nail-biting tension of a story about the imminent nuclear annihilation of a place that doesn't exist — a few meaningful points emerge.
In the first month of Donald Trump's second year, he has called for the imprisonment of political opponents and taunted North Korea's nuclear-armed leader with threats of annihilation.
The trilogy—comprising Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance—begins with an expedition into the mysterious, all-consuming Area X, a section of the United States reclaimed by nature gone rogue.
"Why suffer through the annihilation if it's not going to matter?" said Ford, who has faced death threats and has not returned to her family home since identifying herself.
I felt that surely the threat of genocide directed at Israel and the Jewish people would move him to oppose the funding of a government sworn to Israel's annihilation.
"I need to know what's inside," Natalie Portman says toward the end of the first trailer for Annihilation, the forthcoming adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 surprise-hit sci-fi novel.
The format of the exhibition, and the attendant wall text, emphasize the documentary function of Ross's photographs, which are characterized as a frank account of Nazi-engineered incarceration and annihilation.
This is perhaps as close the world has ever come to a doomsday scenario, and it's chilling to think a moment of indeterminacy would have meant instant annihilation for millions.
If the dark matter is less than about 100 gigaelectron volts—about 100 times the mass of a proton—then we should already be seeing annihilation signals from dwarf galaxies.
" The experience of filming Annihilation with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, and Tuva Novotny was "incredible," she said — and rare, because she's used to being "the only actress.
As noted, "Watchmen" operates in a world where superheroes were real, and mankind escaped nuclear annihilation thanks to an elaborate plot that killed millions in order to bring countries together.
The JuD activists, chanting "annihilation of India", tried to approach the LoC but were kept well back by steel barricades erected by Pakistani security forces in the village of Chakothi.
The other major feature that everyone's been insisting on in 211 — beyond bezel annihilation and wireless charging — is waterproofing, and HTC has taken a step forward with the U211 Plus.
When the protagonist is fully extinguished, the same footage is played in reverse, dramatizing the resurrection as Cassils is lifted from the floor and the artist's self-annihilation is undone.
His title works as a reference to the annihilation of the human race by a superior, more sophisticated life form, a line Dr. Ventress echoes in the film's final arc.
Like Annihilation, Stalker is a heady, cerebral movie about the baggage people carry, and how it might manifest in a surreal setting that reflects people's interior lives in unpredictable ways.
We cannot allow a regime that chants "Death to America," and that threatens Israel with annihilation, to possess the means to deliver a nuclear warhead to any city on Earth.
Rodriguez says the movement was formed through generosity and empathy, and she is proud of Annihilation cast mates Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson for being at the forefront of it.
As noted in the new study, the first efforts to make LINE-1 edits resulted in the complete annihilation of the cells, so it was back to the drawing board.
This type of relationship could eventually become relatively stable because North Korean leaders would be very cautious about launching a nuclear weapon that would certainly lead to their country's annihilation.
As a universe set in aftermath of total annihilation (aka the nuclear fallout of the Mushrooms Wars), the show has always in some ways been about living with the end.
In 2010, the Liberals entered a formal coalition with the Conservatives after the election -- a fraught decision that resulted in the near annihilation of the parliamentary Liberal party in 191924.
The events of Fallen Order begin shortly after the institution of Order 66, an ominous decree that led to the near-annihilation of the Jedi in Revenge of the Sith.
His Area X trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) might have brought him his highest acclaim thus far, but his earlier novels, such as Shriek and Finch, were also well-liked.
The first batch of games, which subscribers can download until March 31, includes Superhot, Oxenfree, Mr. Shifty, Shadow Tactics, and the Dungeons & Dragons game Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation.
Lest this litany seem too sunny, in January the Doomsday Clock, which measures the likelihood of human annihilation, moved closer to midnight than it has been since the nineteen-fifties.
Jews are the foremost targets of the genocidal terrorist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic jihad, all of which openly threaten Israel with annihilation just 70 years after the holocaust.
None of which is lost on ISIS propagandists, who are keen to portray the United States and Russia as in league in an ongoing war of annihilation against Sunni Muslims.
The nightmare of push-button nuclear annihilation that has haunted us since the invention of the atomic bomb now has a parallel in the looming specter of large-scale cyberwarfare.
The 1995 island had been partly eroded by waves over the past quarter-century, but nevertheless resisted complete annihilation because it was made of solid clumps of sticky, solidified lava.
It's been eight years since Planes, the hard rocking, hair flipping, wild motherfuckers hell-bent on annihilation called it quits, not long after the release of their third album, Mercy.
Shortly thereafter, he was recruited by the Jewish underground to take news of the Warsaw ghetto, and the annihilation of the Jews, directly to Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Perhaps that's why the game we deserve, if not willing to crowdsource, is being brought to the PlayStation 4, a console that doesn't have to compress video files into annihilation.
If this sentiment seems hopelessly alien, reflect that Dr. Ford wondered whether she should testify to her assault, because "why suffer through the annihilation if it's not going to matter"?
Gratitude, in the experiential sense, requires that we wade back into the current of unreflective consciousness, which, to the egocentric mind, can easily feel like an annihilation of consciousness altogether.
Before the small genocide, the fantasy of annihilation had set up camp in the press, in coffeehouse conversations, jokes, laws, segregation, public demonstrations and vituperation until things came to blows.
Only in "Annihilation," Mr. Isaac's character vanishes early on, during a mission into an environmental danger zone, and his wife, played by Natalie Portman, leads an expedition to save him.
In the essay's most remarkable passage, Morgenthau envisioned the apocalyptic annihilation whose enormity his contemporaries seemed unable to grasp: Nuclear destruction is mass destruction, both of persons and of things.
After a day in which both teeter on the brink of self-annihilation, they come back together, only to find that they may have had their last kiss after all.
In interviews, Green Berets describe ferocious events, like the annihilation of a Taliban convoy, and sorrowful moments, like battlefield errors that led to the friendly-fire deaths of several Americans.
The seven-episode series is billed as The Hunger Games meets Lost meets Annihilation, with Fyre Festival thrown in — and all four of those things took place in gorgeous locales.
"We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea," Mattis said with Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at his side.
Misunderstood signs and signals, incomplete, or incoherent communication, coupled with rapidly escalating tensions had President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev knocking on the door of nuclear annihilation.
Cooper's expeditionary photographs retrace early sea voyages, cautioning that the human impulse to master the world's edge often results not in dominion, but rather in an annihilation of the self.
Earlier today, Publisher's Lunch announced that Annihilation and Borne author Jeff VanderMeer signed a "major deal" with publisher FSG for his next novel, Hummingbird Salamander, and an untitled short story collection.
VanderMeer earned considerable acclaim for his Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), and his latest Borne, which followed a young woman living in an apocalyptic world filled with strange biotech.
Annihilation was imbued with a level of surrealism and flat out weirdness in Area X. How do you think the film does when it comes to translating what you wrote visually?
In my experience, when policymakers want to spend a trillion dollars on something, they tend to gloss over any risks that something might pose, such as, in this case, global annihilation.
They published their findings in a report titled "War of Annihilation," in a reference to the language used by U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in the lead-up to the campaign.
For centuries, Jewish people have been thrown out of countries, attacked in pogroms, and then they faced annihilation during World War II, when 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein attacked what he called a "monstrous campaign of annihilation" on Wednesday against the besieged civilian population of eastern Ghouta in Syria.
That distinction belongs to Stephen Norrington's Blade, the 1998 film starring Wesley Snipes as the titular, daywalking vampire who hunted his own kind in an effort to protect humanity from annihilation.
Quanta Magazne: When the Fermi data first appeared, you and others suspected that the strong gamma-ray signal at the center of the galaxy might be coming from dark-matter annihilation.
Annihilation tips its hat to the fact that audiences today are less inclined to have patience for brain-melting metaphors and psychedelia, but it doesn't cater to those more literal tendencies.
JERUSALEM — After he was convicted and sentenced to death in Israel for his role in the annihilation of millions of Jews by Nazi Germany, Adolf Eichmann pleaded for his own life.
But the deal also sends a clear message: Paramount has no faith in Annihilation — or audience's capacities to appreciate projects that bypass the over-trodden molds many sci-fi movies follow.
Both Ex Machina and Annihilation were complicated films, dealing with longstanding genre tropes like weird lifeforms and robots in ways that are hard to fit into a two-hour feature film.
For decades, while the Soviet Union sowed tyranny across the globe, sent millions to rot in the Gulag, and threatened America with nuclear annihilation, Democrats were for detente and peaceful coexistence.
Just as he used to be able to tweet incoherently in the middle of the night instead of having to deal with all the pesky work of ensuring our nuclear annihilation.
The fireworks and celebratory revelry have given way to simmering rage and visceral demonstrations protesting the death of the voiceless; the annihilation of the helpless; and the extermination of the powerless.
In general, the superpowers did not threaten poorer countries with nuclear annihilation: They simultaneously courted them in a battle for allegiance and undercut efforts at reform that threatened the superpowers' interests.
As Roiphe observes, this is an ­exemplary illustration of his own concept of the death drive, the way a person can long in some quarter of herself for annihilation or extinction.
" The background: "In the cold war a generation of statesmen, chastened by conflict and the near-catastrophe of the Cuban missile crisis, used arms control to lessen the risk of annihilation.
The day is not far off when they will be able not simply to detonate nuclear devices in test shafts on their own soil but to threaten our cities with annihilation.
"Interpret it as you wish …" In "Annihilation" it's Lena who assumes the role of Orpheus, descending into a transfigured world filled with terrors, death, eccentric beauty and room for interpretive leeway.
Koh Yu-hwan, a professor of North Korean studies at Dongguk University in Seoul, said that Mr. Kim, faced with Mr. Trump's threat of annihilation, could respond only with equal force.
In "The Gun Runner's Daughter" (1998), an Israeli-American woman is a modern incarnation of Queen Esther, the secretly Jewish wife of the Persian king, who saved her people from annihilation.
Fox Line: Vikings -3 | Total: 44 Philadelphia's defense is not as good as it appeared in last week's annihilation of the Jets, in which it produced 10 sacks and two interceptions.
The likelihood of Labour's coming annihilation is reflected in the leader's favorability ratings among Britain's politically engaged retirees: They put him a staggering 57 points behind the Conservative leader, Theresa May.
For "Watchmen" to appropriate a shot like that borders on exploitation, but it's important to the story for realize that Dr. Manhattan didn't win the war through threat of annihilation alone.
Altman's professed impatience with "most people" takes on a sinister undertone in the context of his repeated references to the annihilation of human life or its replacement by "levelled up" humans.
Zelman sees the Sixth Mass Extinction—the human-driven "biological annihilation" that scientists say is sending extinction rates skyrocketing for only the sixth time in the planet's history—as an atrocity.
Even when threats against cultural artifacts aren't made explicit, the annihilation of culture—of the sacred and mundane things that anchor people in their histories—is always a consequence of war.
But all Veidt sees is a lack of appreciation: In his own view, he saved the people of Earth from annihilation by World War by dropping the squid on 11/2.
Comparatively, Annihilation has no touchpoints, nothing for us to hold onto as it thrusts us into a surrealist eco-nightmare, with five women (led by Natalie Portman) as our troubled guides.
Beyond "A Quiet Place," the movie studio has had only moderate successes like "Book Club" and "Annihilation" (which doesn't earn it any foreign gross because it sold those rights to Netflix).
In a press release, the social media company responded to widespread cries to deactivate Trump's account after he threatened North Korea with nuclear annihilation when bragging about the size of his button.
"So one has to bring the antiprotons to where the nuclei are," Alexandre Obertelli, spokesperson of the endeavor called PUMA: AntiProton (P) - Unstable Matter Annihilation from TU Darmstadt in Germany, told Gizmodo.
Last year he was calling him little rocket man and threatening their annihilation, and then today he said yes, we&aposll have him over to the White House and have a powwow.
The most radical choice of all in Annihilation isn't everything it leaves unsolved, but the way it reveals itself to be a movie more invested in personal impulses than possible extraterrestrial invasions.
Instead, I see the ritual shaping of time and action, the honoring of materials, and the record of a man going forward in the face of annihilation, having escaped and endured it.
It is how we got to calling for "law and order" and how we get away with calling for the annihilation of "thugs" in political speeches on both sides of the aisle.
At one point, Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson was attached to produce a feature film adaptation, with an early draft written by Ex Machina and Annihilation writer-director Alex Garland.
"No longer will we put New York or Los Angeles at risk of annihilation for the sake of European countries that drain our economy," declared Stephen Miller, Mr Trump's national-security adviser.
For example, it refuses to accept the idea of the Trinity, or a single God in three persons, and it predicts that sinners will be punished with annihilation rather than eternal tribulation.
FROM COINAGE: Top 5 Most Expensive Movie Collectibles   Isaac has multiple film projects in post-production for 2017, including the Natalie Portman-led sci-fi thriller Annihilation and the crime comedy Suburbicon.
In the '50s and '60s, an ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation hung over youths' heads, culminating in the Bay of Pigs bringing us to the absolute brink of World War III.
And nuclear annihilation still looms in the background as an ever-present reminder that Earth might not be the secure location to store all of the records of human knowledge and progress.
What he's technically got to show for it, so far, is a trade deal with South Korea, which had the backdrop of North Korea and possible nuclear annihilation to move it along.
Virtually bereft of critically-acclaimed masterpieces and instead characterized by visceral (albeit empty) spectacles of annihilation, the genre provides audiences with an embarrassment of riches in the "So bad, it's good" department.
Francis said international peace and stability "cannot be based on a false sense of security, on the threat of mutual destruction or total annihilation, or on simply maintaining a balance of power".
He later revealed that he threw his lot in with Annihilus and the Annihilation Wave because he wanted to see what a new cycle of life in the universe might look like.
Using a specially designed device, researchers trapped a single antiproton (the antiparticle of the photon, the particle form of light) and kept it isolated to avoid annihilation through interacting with a photon.
Today, the studio released a new trailer that shows off the utter strangeness of Area X. Based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation is about a journey into a surreal universe.
The Annihilation bear is a harrowing mutated beast that combines animal and human physiology, and it vocalizes with a mixture of roaring and the agonized screams of the last person it killed.
If you were disappointed by the promised sci-fi thrill and star power of something like Cloverfield Paradox, you might be in luck with Alex Garland's Annihilation, due in theaters on Friday.
How could so many communities have hated Jews with such an intense and violent loathing that an entire population, from the elderly to infants, including 1.5 million children, were targeted for annihilation?
President Trump doesn't need authorization from Congress to finish his annihilation campaign against the Islamic State and other Islamist militants, but it would be wise to work with Congress to get it.
One of the most disturbing scenes in Alex Garland's biological horror art film Annihilation was when the death knell of a traveling companion is somehow absorbed by an undead-looking bearlike monster.
Their latest album, Decivilize, is a green anarchist screed against the horrors of civilization, poisonous colonialism, and cultural annihilation, an impassioned indictment of the status quo (and, often, of the left itself).
His posts, in turn, continue to upend US alliances and political norms, amplify white nationalist conspiracy theories, and intimidate the press, and have even alluded to the nuclear annihilation of North Korea.
In Genesis, for example, Abraham argues with a wrathful but undecided God about how many righteous inhabitants it would take to save the wicked populace of Sodom and Gomorrah from divine annihilation.
The rest of the record continues in kind—they sing of cosmic annihilation and anxiety and death—well-trod material for many of the doom metal bands to whom they are compared.
A virtuous woman, then, is implicitly defined as one who is wronged and who then contributes to her own annihilation — all the while shown half-naked for the delectation of the viewer.
In an increasingly unstable world, with terrorism, heightened international tensions and non-nuclear countries coveting the bomb, he says, the risk is that this metal of mass annihilation will be used again.
But had the extraterrestrial impact happened nearly anywhere else, like in the ocean or in the middle of most continents, some scientists now say it is possible dinosaurs could have survived annihilation.
The apocalyptic rhetoric of Iranian hardliners vowing "annihilation" of Israel coupled with the much-vaunted tour of Iran-backed paramilitary commanders along Israel's border with Lebanon and Syria have stoked these fears.
Since its creation in 1948, Israel has thrived in a region surrounded by few who recognize its existence as a state and adversaries who issue threats of annihilation on a regular basis.
Blame it on climate change (her anxiety), too many post-apocalyptic movies and video games (mine), and a healthy dose of terror about nuclear annihilation and antibiotic-resistant pathogens (both of ours).
Not only are users readying themselves tweet-by-tweet for annihilation, but they've also been tearing themselves apart over accusations of elaborate foreign psychological warfare, coordinated disinformation campaigns, and manipulation from bots.
" Skydance, which is best known for its work on films like Annihilation and, most recently, Gemini Man, says that the new team will be tasked with shaping "the future of interactive media.
As in Stalker, Annihilation features several scenes that are difficult to look at, even gut-churning, and yet strange in their beauty (and some that are just outright ripped from a dreamscape).
In the science fiction film Annihilation, Natalie Portman plays a scientist named Lena, who is part of an expedition tasked with exploring an area which has been taken over by a mysterious force.
It is a regime that blatantly violates its nuclear and chemical weapons treaty obligations, has invaded two of its neighbors, and has threatened NATO countries (and even Mar-a-Lago) with nuclear annihilation.
Even Colonel Sanders tried to turn nuclear annihilation into sales on Wednesday, with KFC UK & Ireland attacking rival McDonald's hamburgers in a mocking (and unsettling) copy of Trump's tweet aimed at North Korea.
While films have all the same ways of depicting violence that games have, I have a hard time thinking of a non-satirical film that revels in the absolute annihilation of nuclear war.
Yes, it includes the classic Cold War film Duck and Cover, in which a bomb-fearing turtle named Bert teaches kids that hiding under their desks could be sufficient protection from nuclear annihilation.
This is not the first, or the greatest, self-imposed threat that we have collectively faced — that would be the prospect of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War — but it's arguably the trickiest.
He tells Gabriel that he'll never help him, and that he will aid Negan any way he can — even if it results in the total annihilation of Alexandria, the Hilltop, and the Kingdom.
Instead of worrying about whether we're hurtling towards nuclear annihilation, or wading into a world of rising sea levels, or facing decades of wild, climate change-induced weather patterns, just read these books.
The Annihilation actress, who appears on the cover of PORTER's Spring issue, told the magazine that the #MeToo and Time's Up movements have made her reexamine certain inappropriate experiences from her own past.
The threat of nuclear annihilation meant the future could disappear in a flash: depending on where they're launched, intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, can reach their targets in a half hour or less.
One of the most anticipated movies of 2018 is Alex Garland's Annihilation, a science-horror story set in a region of the country that's been isolated by a mysterious barrier called the Shimmer.
Then, inspired by Annihilation, we talk about books that make us go "WTF?!" including: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, and Wool by Hugh Howey.
Though there is also the flip-side possibility that — for example — the current president of the U.S. will just get double the amount of newsworthy tweet space with which to threaten nuclear annihilation.
And while there's no question he has a lot at stake, a closer look suggests that the billionaire investor has shielded some of his investment from annihilation in the event of Sears' demise.
But that's not even the full picture of the "biological annihilation" people are inflicting on the natural world, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Annihilation the book was one of the best science fiction stories to come out of the last few years — and before Garland got involved, I probably would have told you it was unfilmable.
Do you think that's because there was a deficit of thoughtful work on the topic, or just that the scale of the prospect of nuclear annihilation in some ways transcends meaningful fictional treatment?
His "fire and fury" rhetoric has established him as the intimidator-in-chief, so switching from threats of annihilation to direct diplomacy would not jeopardize his tough guy image, abroad or at home.
Emily Yoshida, Vulture: The annihilation of the film's title is the self-directed kind, and it's working on a molecular level, even when the Hollywood narrative trappings of the film let it down.
Responding to current events, the "Doomsday Clock" has moved 30 seconds ahead and is now reflecting that the world is the closest to metaphorical midnight, or the symbolic "point of annihilation," since 1953.
The "leveling of countries" Anton has in mind is not the starvation of Ukraine, but whatever cultural annihilation Missouri's Trump fans think they might face with a few more Central Americans in town.
In the upcoming sci-fi film Annihilation, a group of scientists set out to explore an area that has been overtaken by a mysterious force and is full of strange sights — and terrors.
" In the 2018 sci-fi flop Annihilation, Natalie Portman and a crew of military scientists enter "Area X," a mass of swampy wilderness that's been overtaken by a strange force called "The Shimmer.
A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences blamed the rapid expansion of the human population and excess consumption for a "biological annihilation" that could spell trouble for mankind, too.
It was the first time that leaders of the countries have met, and it came after years of bluster and threats from Pyongyang — and from Trump — that have raised fears of nuclear annihilation.
An R-rated science-fiction drama directed by Alex Garland ("Ex Machina") and starring Natalie Portman as a biologist, "Annihilation" cost Paramount Pictures and David Ellison's Skydance at least $40 million to make.
Shmuley thinks Lorde's joined a movement seeking the "economic annihilation" of Israel, and though he doesn't call her an anti-Semite ... he believes she needs to be more responsible as an influential celeb.
Amid the terror and aggressiveness then of government and military leaders on both sides, little or no thought was given what to do with the warheads should the risk of mass annihilation ebb.
And yet the closer I was getting, both geographically and psychologically, to the once-great Yiddish European civilization of my forebears, the more I began to experience the dull horror of its annihilation.
"We've had this argument that's been going on now since we stopped the annihilation of tribes in the 1970s, that we want tribal governments to be self-sustaining and sovereign," Representative Gallego said.
There are clear references to the likes of Lost, Annihilation, SCP fiction, Twin Peaks, and House of Leaves, all wrapped up in a distinctive visual design that references brutalist architecture and '70s typography.
He leaves out that America's greatness came, in part, from the theft of a continent, the annihilation of its people, the import of free slave labor and the despoiling of its natural resources.
The seemingly pleasant and contemplative "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is filled with shuddering intimations of mortality, with the woods that are famously "lovely, dark and deep" hinting at self-annihilation.
Forced to choose between killing him before sunrise the next day, so she can return to the ocean and live a full life underwater, and evaporating into seafoam, she resigns herself to annihilation.
The group of scientists, analysts and researchers kept the hands on the Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight on Thursday, the closest it has ever been to the symbolic moment of total annihilation.
Here Tom is, still absolutely rocking his new look, skin flawless, rolling up to the AMC movie theater with Abby to watch, I presume, Annihilation, or maybe Red Sparrow, or, hell, Fifty Shades Freed!
In another universe, you could easily see Penny and Judy volunteering to join the crew of passionate scientists volunteering to venture into the unknown in Annihilation, or working in Shuri's lab in Black Panther.
It's been over a year since the Annihilation actress, 36, made her last appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in December 2016, and since then Portman has welcomed another child with husband Benjamin Millepied.
This allegory of self-annihilation points to the practice of self-immolation by Buddhist monks during the Vietnam War and, before that, the death by burning of heretics, witches, sexual deviants, and cross-dressers.
Dozens of bodies were extracted from rivers and lakes in the vicinity, but East German propaganda generally covered up the story, just as it concealed the Soviet cruelties which pushed many to self-annihilation.
Like Arrival (or Ex Machina, for that matter), Annihilation is a thoughtful, philosophical movie, more interested in the nature of humanity and the urges that drive us rather than in who lives or dies.
There were not many reasons to feel blessed in 2018—Trump is president, the internet is rotting our brains, we are becoming increasingly alienated from one another; the threat of global annihilation looms, etc.
Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy for the fight against the Islamic State group, said Thursday the group is now facing "annihilation" with the losses in western Iraq and nearly 96 percent of its territory.
Generally, the female main character (MC) is flustered and virginal, naïve and self-effacing to the point of self-annihilation, while the male characters conform to personality archetypes that are more aggressive and active.
But that it is even taking place is even more remarkable, given that less than six months ago the two men were trading insults, flouting military capabilities and threatening each other with nuclear annihilation.
Professor Nolte had condemned Nazism and acknowledged that there had been "widespread liquidation" during the Holocaust, although he also referred to the "so-called" annihilation of the Jews and the bias of Jewish historians.
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday urged world leaders to turn back from the brink of possible human annihilation, suggesting that some of them had an "irrational" attitude towards nuclear weapons.
While it'd be nice to see a bug that prevents total nuclear annihilation become a feature in real life, if players can't launch nukes in Fallout 76 they can't initiate high level ("endgame") content.
"Columbia had two main problems: the annihilation of bricks-and-mortar retailers that sell so many of their products and the fact that we had two really warm winters in a row," Cramer said.
WARSAW (Reuters) - A deeply moving exhibition of archives documenting the life and annihilation of Jews by Nazi Germany in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two goes on public display in Poland on Thursday.
"Annihilation" was a holdover from a previous management team at the studio, where a large number of senior executives have quit or been fired over the last year as the studio attempts a turnaround.
The Doomsday Clock, a potent symbol of scientific concerns about humanity's possible annihilation, was advanced by 21953 seconds on Thursday, to 22017 minutes to midnight, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced in Washington.
The SDF said in a statement that Turkey was exposing the Kurds to "systematic annihilation" in Afrin with different types of weapons and airstrikes and that its forces would continue to defend the region.
"We party when the sun goes low/Imminent annihilation is so dope," she chirps in "My Name Is Dark," a souped-up neo-grunge rocker she released to preview "Miss Anthropocene," her fifth album.
Also, it being the '70s and '80s, we could not escape stories of nuclear annihilation, which was a perennial story line for television series and books, many of them aimed at young-adult audiences.
The exception is larb, one of Isan's great gifts to the world, a salad (inadequate word!) of minced meat crackling slightly from roasted rice powder, braced by lime and, in heat, approaching quiet annihilation.
VanderMeer's creepy, stylish, and singular science fiction novel is the first in a trilogy, all of which is worth reading, but Annihilation is the best of the three books and stands on its own.
Back in September, Paramount released a teaser for its sci-fi drama "Annihilation" that focused on Natalie Portman's character, a biologist, leading an all-female team into a jungle populated with dangerous otherworldly creatures.
His posters in this period captured the essence of the dread and desperation that defined American cinema of the postwar era, which was coupled with cynical reality and the otherworldly threat of atomic annihilation.
That is a shock because the conventional money-management business is thought to face annihilation from technological advance, along with other anachronisms such as shops, taxis, travel agents, car firms, watches, hotels and broadcast television.
When EW spoke with Annihilation writer-director Alex Garland earlier this week, the filmmaker said that his plan in adapting Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 science fiction novel was to make something very weird and very beautiful.
On The Body, the Blood, the Machine, it was not clear at all on the record, but in our heads, it ended on some kind of extinction of humanity or some kind of nuclear annihilation.
Commissioned by the U.K.'s Mental Health Foundation, the research found the state of the world weighed heavily on young people – with the Trump administration rating above climate change and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
But the beautifully disturbing visuals of Annihilation are made for the big screen: verdant mutant landscapes and prismatic light, the days seeming to skip right to late afternoon, the sun hanging low in the sky.
For the dad with a creative streak:Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer (22018)If you saw the movie Annihilation, based off Vandermeer's novel of the same name, you're already acquainted with the limitless boundaries of his imagination.
Annihilation follows the familiar form of science fiction horror found in films from Alien to The Cloverfield Paradox, with a cast of characters in isolation, slowly being picked off by a force they don't understand.
"On the climate-change front, the danger may seem less immediate than risk of nuclear annihilation, but avoiding catastrophic temperature increases in the long run requires urgent attention now," Krauss wrote in his op-ed.
It's so solidified in the cultural zeitgeist that it spawned countless memes, with fans relating it to the annihilation of their work emails or comparisons to Season 2, demonstrating just how fast reptilian children grow.
However, after the Holocaust, the greatest destruction and attempted annihilation of the Jewish people, it was felt that a new social contract was being signed between the nations of the world and the Jewish nation.
Usually when the North Korean leader appears on screens in the South Korean capital, it is a sign of danger and high tensions on the Korean Peninsula: nuclear tests, missile launches, or promises of annihilation.
The U.S. and North Korea were in a temporary détente: after exchanging threats of nuclear annihilation with Kim Jong Un , Donald Trump had announce d that he'd fallen "in love" with the North Korean dictator.
In the besieged human capital, on the edge of civil war, invasion, and magical apocalypse all at once, a group of refugees-turned-heroes are desperately trying to stave off collapse and the probable annihilation.
Sure, the heaviness haunts Winiger's lyrics (sung in German), which concern themselves with the overwhelming nature of the world, faith, and the annihilation of desire in the face of the algorithms that shape public thought.
Saving the world from total annihilation might seem to be a more important cause than throwing bricks at some wretched, pug-faced Nazis, but at least the fascists have a reasonable chance of being defeated.
Claude Lanzmann, the journalist and film director whose obsession with the Nazi genocide brought forth "Shoah," a groundbreaking film that relived the annihilation of Jews through the memories of witnesses, died on Thursday in Paris.
Instead, Mr. Sanders reached out to the Soviet Union via an organization based in Virginia, requesting a sister-city partnership with the Cold War adversary in an effort to end the threat of nuclear annihilation.

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