calamitous

How To Use calamitous In A Sentence

• While calamitous, fires do and can have a positive outcome.
• That is what is most calamitous, that is the most dramatic. CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2001
• Peeping through the lowered venetians of yesteryear (recollection as a species of voyeurism is very Ishiguro), the retrovert is privy to a series of partial visions that eventually reveal a life guided by calamitous misapprehension on his part. New Fiction
• Arnold Ridley is better known as the blundering Private Godfrey in the TV show Dad's Army, but Nicolas is keen to let people know that there was more to his life than a calamitous comedy character. Evening Mail news round-up
• With the current presidential term lurching to such a calamitous close that the incumbent is probably worried about being remembered as George Herbert Hoover Walker Bush, the correlation between presidential party and economic outcome demands some kind of explanation. Taipei Times
• The bloodshed there, and in Romeo and Juliet could be called calamitous, but it was not tragically pitiable.
• In Compagnie Cahin Caha, director Gulko performs a near-calamitous off-balance act on the slack rope.
• Some changes can be improvement, but in cities redolent with history they are often calamitous.
• ‘No one can fathom the calamitous consequences if the crisis ignites a war,’ they said.
• History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.