Sentence examples for a calamitous combination from inspiring English sources

Belafonte's performance of "Losing Hand" — a song written by Charles Calhoun for Ray Charles, who had a hit with it, in 1953 — is, for me, a calamitous combination of the sly and the wounded.

O'Neill did what he could to help Carter without betraying his own fundamental beliefs, but the relatively modest accomplishments of the Carter administration were not enough to offset a calamitous combination of political disasters, including double-digit inflation and interest rates, increased unemployment and the inability to orchestrate a return of the hostages from Iran.

The trials and tribulations he suffered under the high ball were of Old Testament proportions – more than once, a calamitous combination of poor positioning and terminal Teflonitis dropped England in the mire – and it was only when he switched places with Mark Cueto that the overpowering whiff of a series of accidents waiting to happen disappeared on the breeze.

It is a calamitous desire.

Of course, that followed a calamitous decline.

"It's a calamitous mess.

If so, it was a calamitous mistake.

Aid workers feared a calamitous battle for the city.

It was a calamitous miscalculation for Syria and for Turkey.

Baghdad's hospitals were in a calamitous state.

England finished on a high after a calamitous start.