Rapture was a terrifying tomb, but Columbia is that mythical bright shining city on a hill.
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And who knows, maybe this will be the post that sends me back into the rapture.
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It seems that the world of Columbia is more densely populated than the ravaged Rapture.
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Rapture was dark perfect for the game, but not a place I would want to visit.
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There are many deliberate echoes of Rapture in Columbia too many to be a coincidence.
Bay shoots weaponry in an orgasmic rapture, always in slow motion and against the sunset.
There was none of the national rapture that occurred when the NFL ended its own work stoppage.
But it would be a little odd, and make the underwater city of Rapture rather less impressive.
The dead as enshrined in high culture, local lore, daily beauty, and romantic rapture lend them a dangerous fascination.
Ms. SILL: (Singing) The sweetest rapture ...(unintelligible) capture (unintelligible) my heart in the westward direction of my own resurrection.
For them, seeing the King of Pop is a quasi-religious experience, and they went into rapture when he appeared.
Clea and I waited an appropriate interval, then turned and clung to each other in a kind of rapture.
Well, we have the obvious idea that Rapture is Columbia, sunk under the ocean instead of floating above it.
Camping teaches us anything it should be that our country hosts a Rapture Industrial Complex (RIC) of sizable proportions.
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For example, every vending machine in Rapture has its counterpart in Columbia.
She takes you through another tear, and you end up in Rapture.
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While the fallen city of Rapture was a mess of doom and gloom and psychopathic crazies, Columbia is the opposite in every way.
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Like almost everything in "The Path of Nature, " such works bear witness to the rapture of northerners confronted by the south and Italian sun.
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While I was playing through BioShock Infinite, I thought it was strange that there were literally no references to Rapture or Andrew Ryan at all.
Lang wears so much product in his hair that when he sways in rapture to his playing his head looks like a porcupine in a typhoon.
Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the "Left Behind" book series about the Rapture within the Christian Bible's end-of-days Book of Revelation, doesn't completely agree with Hall's assessment.
But it makes me wonder: Are the developers deliberately mimicking the previous games, or is there a deeper reason why the nature of Columbia resembles Rapture?
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As Mr Obama stood amid the red, white and blue ticker tape with his family, it was a moment to drink in the rapture of the crowd.
That Rapture, and really all the events of the original BioShock are direct, alternate parallels of everything that happens in BioShock Infinite, right down to the characters themselves.
But some of this recent rapture sounds like overdue acceptance.
The metaphorical force of this conceit insisting on the artifice of the social world that frowns on rapture is not hard to grasp, but its frailty unsettles some of the actors.
Olive created it as the World Bible Society of America in 1979, and first drew attention with a book predicting the rapture of the faithful on the Jewish New Year, 1988.
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