Meaning of Götterdämmerung | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The myth of the destruction of the gods in a final battle with the forces of evil; the apocalypse.
   Norse
2. Any cataclysmic downfall or momentous, apocalyptic event, especially of a regime or an institution.
   broadly

Examples

“To me a nasturtium by the river brink is more than a simple flower. It is a broader, grander, more magnificent, more stupendous symbol. It may mean anything, everything—such as sunsets and conflagrations and Götterdämmerungs!”

“After so much music, love, and flowers, she felt benumbed, thunder-struck by this psychedelic Götterdämmerung.”

“If mishandled by the world policy establishment, this debacle is big enough to shatter the fragile banking systems of Western Europe and set off round two of our financial Götterdämmerung.”

“We are in the Götterdämmerung now, the final phase of the Trump era.”

“Plenty of fence-sitters have withheld their allegiance by booking a double feature, but the impending cineplex Götterdämmerung still speaks to something fundamental about how and why we pit movies against one another.”

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