Sentence examples for calamitous attempt from inspiring English sources

Here is a subdued true-life drama about a calamitous attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1996.

Despite whispering to Andy Cohen that she "get[s] it now" -- "it" being reality television, following her calamitous attempt to join the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast -- Val obviously does not "get it".

In Dancing in the Dark, the latest to be translated, he documents his prolonged and calamitous attempts to dispose of his virginity during his late teenage years, a struggle sorely undermined by a chronic condition of premature ejaculation.

Previous attempts were calamitous and prevented Mooney from making it as far as he has this year.

The former is a singing contest which is clearly the corporation's latest attempt (after the calamitous Fame Academy) to match The X Factor.

A few days after President John F. Kennedy made a calamitous early misstep a carelessly planned attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro, in April, 1961 he invited Dwight D. Eisenhower, his predecessor as President, for lunch.

When there is no information or, much worse, wrong information, it can lead to calamitous decisions that clobber any attempts at vigorous debate.

"There is nothing that's more important in democracy than a well-informed electorate," she says tempestuously. "When there is no information or, much worse, wrong information, it can lead to calamitous decisions that clobber any attempts at vigorous debate.

Closer to home, Royal Mail attempted perhaps the most calamitous corporate rebranding in recent history.

That includes the attempt to clean up the calamitous results of the run-away influence of unaccountable Wall Street on government influence Sarah Palin went after Saturday and rightly so.

The changes would be calamitous at the best of times but to attempt such reform when spending is being cut takes ideological commitment to a level well beyond anything attempted by Thatcher.