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- adjective Of or pertaining to
eucatastrophe .
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Examples
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He called it "eucatastrophic," the good catastrophe.
Richard J. Mouw: 'Then One Foggy Christmas Eve': A Christmas Meditation Richard J. Mouw 2010
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He called it "eucatastrophic," the good catastrophe.
Richard J. Mouw: 'Then One Foggy Christmas Eve': A Christmas Meditation Richard J. Mouw 2010
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But it's a one-dimensional trick, for all that, and puerile at least in the sense that life is very rarely eucatastrophic, and only slightly less rarely dyscatastrophic.
Ellery Queen's Crookbook (1974) Adam Roberts 2010
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But it's a one-dimensional trick, for all that, and puerile at least in the sense that life is very rarely eucatastrophic, and only slightly less rarely dyscatastrophic.
Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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There's a good essay somewhere online, which Tom Simon wrote about the difference between the nihilistic and subversive, and the eucatastrophic "superversive," using LOTR as his example.
Another Good (Mostly) Review Susan Palwick 2007
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God is telling a story, and we are that many more chapters closer to the eucatastrophic denoument of His story.
Blog and Mablog 2010
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I enjoy her work, but there's only so many times you can have a final eucatastrophic confrontation with the anthropomorphic personification of entropy. (
mrissa: Books read, late June mrissa 2010
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