Sentence examples for a disastrous one from inspiring English sources

But what was looking like being a frustrating evening for the Blues turned into a disastrous one at the hands of one of their former players when Wright-Phillips delivered his sucker-punch, 12 minutes from time.

To look for Janacek is to tussle with contradictions: he was impulsive yet considerate; intuitive yet calculating; a fantasist and a realist; a superb psychologist of women on the stage, yet a disastrous one with the women in his life.

This was a mistake, perhaps a disastrous one.

As soon as the changeover occurred though, it became apparent that the decision was a disastrous one.

Dressed in a matronly gray blazer, she gave a remarkably dignified performance, if also a disastrous one.

But his loss from a disastrous one would also be real, and that could make life a bit less painful for other shareholders.

That surgery, performed in June, allowed Favre to return for another season after a disastrous one-year run with the Jets.

Issa Rae's protagonist J confronts the awkward moments suggested by the title (she struggles to make conversation at stop signs, has a disastrous one-night stand with a colleague, and hates walking past people in corridors) with a caustic wit – "Did I die and go to simple bitch hell?" she wonders during a therapy session.

He was charged with cutting the wage bill and rebuilding the club after a disastrous one-season spell in the Premier League in 2007-08, where they had finished with a record low 11 points.

The sequel did a disastrous one-third of the business and was probably one-third as charming as the modest original.

There is a primal affair between a brilliant married composer and a stellar, also married intellectual, and a more disastrous one between a female teacher and a male student.