Even exhaustive planning and seamless cooperation cannot prevent calamitous accidents, and a team of thieves, like a movie crew, must be as good at improvising in the breach as at calculating in advance.
In one the young Walt sits astride a pink pig; in another he's involved in a calamitous polo accident.
And, of course, the vast linked tracking shots along a traffic jam in Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend"—one of the greatest and most emblematic scenes of the modern cinema are sparked by rubbernecking after one of the movie's many calamitous car accidents.
A year that Democrats decreed would be about "jobs, jobs, jobs" has produced a far different check list as its sixth month nears: health care, financial regulation, energy, a nuclear arms treaty and a Supreme Court vacancy, as well as investigations into a mine accident, a calamitous oil spill, a failed terrorist attack in Times Square and alleged Wall Street fraud.
There is no majority in parliament for this calamitous outcome, but it could happen by horrendous accident if MPs can't agree on anything else, because no deal is the default position of the withdrawal legislation.
By then she had already endured the death of her first child and a calamitous injury to her infant son, who was brain-damaged in an accident.
I'd like to eschew all responsibility for being physically calamitous, but worryingly, it seems more and more people believe all accidents involve a guilty party.
Oh, the miserable and calamitous spectacle!" Suspicion soon arose in the threatened city that the fire was no accident.
You may, understandably, feel that this rate skates over the frightening point that such events are so calamitous that everybody aboard dies – but in fact, contrary to that common belief, about 96 per cent of passengers involved in accidents survive to tell the tale.
