"calamitous condition" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a very serious, disastrous or tragic situation or state of being. Example: The hurricane left behind a calamitous condition in the town, with destroyed homes and flooded streets.
Gen. Orde C. Wingate, had faced calamitous conditions in 1943 when they first tried to pin down Japanese occupation forces in Burma.
So how is it that this Democratic president has the temerity to deliver a State of the Union address that completely neglects any explicit mention of the calamitous conditions now afflicting his staunchest supporters: the poor?
That's if what we were to take with us as our primary comfort in calamitous conditions turned out to be The Simpsons--good as it is, and truly amusing--and its popular television ilk and nothing the least bit higher brow.
The other patients with a fatal outcome had not been admitted to ICU because of a calamitous basal condition, which probably contributed to the fatal outcome.
Faced with cholera and calamitous urban living conditions in the early 1800s, city planners ran roughshod over property rights to install the street grid.
"As you can see, conditions are calamitous," she said.
But even Australia, with a batting line-up far less accustomed to English conditions and prone to calamitous collapse, have rumbled along at an average of 3.3 runs an over.
And some of these, a tiny radical minority, may go so far as to plot carefully, and execute fearlessly, a suicidal slaughter of thousands of innocents in the name of Allah.Yet such a calamitous misdirection of energy can occur only under certain conditions.
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.
Not calamitous or terminal.
