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Trophic imbalance can be catastrophic when herbivores without predators irrupt, destroying vegetation and depriving themselves and many other species of food and habitat.

memory' to preserve a trace of them, (29) except when they irrupt

These descriptions heighten the incongruity of this moment, when images of unbridled violence, suffering, and annihilation irrupt within an otherwise hyper-conventional, nostalgic, and sanitized vision of the world.

Thus, what the phantasm of the end of finitude makes visible is a primal or final scene of self-protection: self-destruction as self-protection against what threatens to irrupt or break into us from the outside.

IRRUPT A To break in B To make void C To stimulate who am I?

The conclusion to Rebecca Jessen's story in this issue describes the ways in which violence can cause memories the past to irrupt violently into the present.

Since all the chances of achieving serenity were vanished by the guilty awareness of disobeying a rule, the latent angst sought for the first sign to irrupt.

Rather, echoing Proust, memories irrupt into the text allusively, associatively indirectly.

Is Pound's poetry qualified by the political, economic, and social opinions that irrupt at times, oddly and often in an only semiread-able Poundian code?

In the novel not only are the street merchants carefully scrutinized by video cameras but the police also irrupt into their space and proceed to destroy their products.

More specifically, I will contend that, while theological aesthetics represents a necessary corrective to modern and postmodern theologies, liberation theology represents an equally necessary safeguard against the opposite danger, a reduction of aesthetics to an apolitical religious experience wherein the Beautiful does not irrupt in the world, transforming it, but is simply a legitimating reflection of that world.