I had some sympathy for their loss, but not a whole lot, and then the last chunk of the Bible delivered a great, fiery Armageddon, about which we'd been contemplating anyway from under our school desks for years.
Of the surviving banks, Citigroup came the closest to complete collapse, and it wasn't until last year that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation sold the last chunk of its stake in Citi, ending the five-year bailout.
Yet the last chunk of the film, a set piece that takes place beneath the White House and raises the stakes of the film to the possible assassination of the President and some version of nuclear apocalypse, has a hectic intensity that seemed to me to go beyond technique to reflect the director Phillip Noyce's intense investment in the outcome.
After you've spunked £600 on a soiled single mattress in a condemned flat in Crayford, dropped another £160 on a travel card to get yourself to a job that barely covers those expenses, and stuffed the last chunk of your miserly wage into Dr Oetker's pockets, you'll probably be absolutely desperate for a night of oblivion to obliterate you out of your misery.
We kick off our Seasonal Eating Marathon at Thanksgiving and don't take a break until the very last black eyed pea is sopped up by the last chunk of cornbread.
I thought about trying kimchi with the last chunk of cabbage in the fridge.
The last chunk of charred fuselage was hoisted from the sea on Friday afternoon, a military source said.
"For many gay men, that's the last vestige, that's the last chunk of internalized homophobia, is this hatred of how they sound," Dan Savage tells Thorpe.
For the last chunk of October, New York would be the center of the universe, featuring a long and epic struggle between the Yankees and the Mets.
