First, the calamitous episode last autumn, when he floated the idea of calling a general election, then pulled back.
Angela Eagle, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said: "What we are seeing today is the latest calamitous episode of this government's completely chaotic way of running the country.
Mr. Peterson, a history professor at the University of Virginia, was a prolific writer whose subjects included the abolitionist John Brown, the great 19th-century orator and statesmen Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Lincoln and, somewhat anomalously, a calamitous episode in Armenian history.
Dolan didn't even support his coach when the marginally credentialed star Stephon Marbury declared himself the enemy of Larry Brown, whose brief coexistence with the team president Isiah Thomas in 2005-06 was part of the most calamitous and costly episode of the Dolan years.
The savagery of Carvalho's beating and the glee of the young fans, unaware of what was unfolding but nonetheless aroused and stimulated by the extraordinary violence and perhaps now traumatised, will be seen in the broader sense as a calamitous and indefensible episode in Dublin.
Series one of Episodes ended with the calamitous news that their pilot is, inexplicably, a hit – locking the trio together in LA to make the show, and setting the scene for series two.
Each episode ends with a calamitous revelation (quite a serious one about what the new dentist might have done to Margaret) or a disaster about to occur.
Yet although these highly leveraged creatures seem to have made credit tremors more sudden and more frequent, these episodes have not been more calamitous.
It seemed like a badge of honour when he was the most notable miscreant among the Australian squad on their calamitous tour of India in 2013, having declined to do his homework, an episode that triggered the end of Mickey Arthur's period as coach.
Not calamitous or terminal.
The result was calamitous.
