Sentence examples for Utter catastrophe from inspiring English sources

In any event, the election is not yet an utter catastrophe.

But we appear to have averted the worst: utter catastrophe no longer seems likely.

And utter catastrophe does look like a realistic possibility, even if it is not the most likely outcome.

But don't despair: at the rate things are going, especially in Europe, utter catastrophe may be just around the corner.

And the ultimate point in most of his books is that utter catastrophe can be redeeming -- if there's forgiveness.

"June," she says patiently, "you look absolutely beautiful, but you're going to cause a complete and utter catastrophe.

On the contrary, the bill turned the modest-sized troubles of savings-and-loan institutions into an utter catastrophe.

Probably "The Gathering Storm," the first volume in Winston Churchill's World War II memoir, for its sense of helpless spectatorhood as the world stumbled toward utter catastrophe.

Whatever the deep roots of this paralysis, it's becoming increasingly clear that it will take utter catastrophe to get any real policy action that goes beyond bank bailouts.

"There could have been utter catastrophe had it been higher, closer to the surface," he said of the quake, which geologists said originated more than 30 miles underground.

As Harvard's Martin Weitzman has argued in several influential papers, if there is a significant chance of utter catastrophe, that chance — rather than what is most likely to happen — should dominate cost-benefit calculations.