To that ruinous end, the larger catastrophe in "2012" functions as both the trigger and backdrop for a soap opera about a fractured family, standing in for the rest of humanity, which heals as the world falls apart.
Movies have always glamorized artists as moody geniuses with a knack for courting ruinous ends.
The Wind Rises tells the story of a peaceful man in the service of ruinous ends.
Mrs Merkel has still never really explained to the German people that they face a choice between a repugnant idea (bailing out their undeserving peers) and a ruinous reality (the end of the euro).
Highlight of season Beating the Ospreys to end a ruinous 10-game losing streak in all competitions.
It is now possible to imagine the beginning of the end of a ruinous form of mining called "mountaintop removal".
The explosions appeared to be the latest in a series of attacks that have stunned Lebanon and stoked sectarian strife in the small but strategically situated Middle East nation, which endured a ruinous 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. .
All in all though, the situation had changed considerably and Louis XIV began to look for ways to end what was fast becoming a ruinous war for France.
He was last prime minister in 2002, when he presided over a ruinous spending splurge.
They inherit a ruinous federal debt.
