Sentence examples similar to a calamitous move from inspiring English sources
The consensus among people I spoke to today was that the move is a calamitous mistake - the last gasp of an entombed politician reaching out of the half-closed casket only to bang the few remaining nails into his own coffin.
Leverkusen dominated throughout but poor finishing let them down after Bate scored with their first move, capitalising on a calamitous error by Leverkusen's goalkeeper Bernd Leno.
But that era of mass manufacturing came to a calamitous end in the 1980s as production moved overseas to take advantage of cheaper labour.
Hardline politicians in Israel are now calling for a ground offensive into Gaza, a move that could lead to a calamitous escalation of the conflict.
In what may have been his most controversial move, he gave thanks to God after Egypt suffered a calamitous defeat in the 1967 war with Israel.
The eventual self-destruction of the anti-corruption movement would not be such a calamitous development.
"In sleep," he writes, "he saw their pale lascivious faces; watched them moving like blind men beneath the thousand-columned El, where a calamitous yellow light filtered downward all night long.
Prisoners currently "doing bird" at HMP Portland in Dorset, England, were given documents bearing the names and addresses of children at a nearby school a move many detractors (i.e. me, right now) are calling "quite a calamitous fuck-up, actually".
It is a calamitous desire.
Of course, that followed a calamitous decline.
