And then it wasn't: Ms. Phillips describes the outing of Tiptree and its calamitous effects.
Born in 1904, Greene belonged to a lost British generation that had been too young either to fight in World War I or to reflect soberly on its calamitous effects.
Four years ago Spike Lee took his cameras to New Orleans to document the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as told by the people still dealing with its calamitous effects.
To abuse a famous line from another film: they're young, they're in love, and they shoot up, which they do with increasing frequency and with increasingly calamitous effect.
In the wake of the Iraq war, intervention became a dirty word, at least in the west – and arguably to calamitous effect.
The salmon kebabs veered toward tasteless, and the butterflied brook trout was overbroiled to calamitous effect: it was brutally dry, and not even a river of butter could save it.
A shocking passage even when read in the knowledge of its outcome, it is one of Freeling's best pieces of writing (the critic Grey Gowrie describes Freeling as one of the finest writers of atmospheric weather) but it had a calamitous effect on his career.
But how much sense does it make to acknowledge far and wide the calamitous effects of childhood obesity, yet continue to peddle multi-colored marshmallows to 6-year-olds as "part of a complete breakfast"?
In a recent reading in London, he condemned Islam's "calamitous effect" and compared it to Western colonialism.
In Sudan, meanwhile, British authorities ruled the north and south separately, ultimately to calamitous effect.
