Sentences with phrase «catastrophic turn of events»

Hill's allure — whether in these two novellas or in her famous 1987 novel, The Woman in Black, adapted for the London stage in 1989 and playing there ever since — springs from the serene decorum of her prose, which remains mellifluous even at the most catastrophic turn of events.

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They are, after all, situated in a densely populated area — 20 million people live within a 50 - mile radius — which means that, in the unlikely event of a terrorist attack or a powerful earthquake or some other catastrophic failure, we'll all turn into radioactive zombies.