The misery that can make someone's conversation drone like a dentist's drill may sound as if it has been transcribed (Sharon Small is particularly forceful at putting it across), but the parents tearing into each other aren't hers; nor, as a 12-year-old, did Reiss snog a 21-year-old lodger and bring him to the brink of disaster.
As with all men who cross her path, she brought him nothing but disaster and infamy.
His appetites brought him to the brink of disaster.
Television brings him so many images of disasters and dramas so instantly, and so intimately, that it sometimes felt like more than he could handle, he said.
But, at the time, government officials argued that crypto, if unrestricted, would bring disaster upon disaster.
Unfortunately, the converse is also true: Bad policies bring political disaster.
After the announcement, the king, whose "special role" in protecting Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites is acknowledged by Israel and the Palestinians, dispatched an angry letter to Mr Netanyahu, warning him that his policies would bring disaster.
When the Taliban and Al Qaeda became strong in Afghanistan, I wrote three separate letters to Mullah Omar, advising him not to do what he was doing, because he'd bring disaster upon Afghanistan.
Indulging temple messianism can only bring disaster.
