Sentences with phrase «calamitous events»
The phrase "calamitous events" refers to extremely negative and disastrous incidents or situations. Full definition
In Oops, by Arthur Geisert, a piglet spills his milk, a small incident that leads to one calamitous event after another.
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This one is his take on the disaster film, based on an actual near calamitous event.
We must neither interpret the goodness of God to mean that life will be fair nor that the innocent will not suffer nor that calamitous events will not occur.
A calamitous event with which Arsenal FC seemed to just crumble away.
Rent uses the calamitous events within the space of one year in a group of societal outcasts as the tool to examine the strength of their relationships to one another.
These movies were still in development when the calamitous events of September 11 took place, but The Core really has no such excuse.
She tries her utmost to be a reliable and judicious narrator, even though, given the calamitous events of her life, it's nearly impossible.
To use the Jamaican slang from Augustown, Kei Miller's excellent new novel, the April 1982 day in which a calamitous event is about to occur is «the day of the autoclaps,» a day of impending disaster, trouble on top of trouble.
Set in the distant future after a calamitous event wiped out the Earth as we know it, Horizon: Zero Dawn finds humanity having reverted to a much more primitive state.
This show opens just after the 50th anniversary of the Biafra war, a momentous and calamitous event that has been commemorated by Nigerians in characteristic muted fashion.