Sentence examples for calamitous experience from inspiring English sources

Reviewing Wilde's calamitous experience with the English legal system, the semantic association of 'persecution' with 'prosecution' seems unaccidental, given the judicial nature of his oppression.

This calamitous experience reported on Page One could only have happened to an exceptionally brave fighter because Lupe Pintor, the powerful Mexican who was defending his World Boxing Council bantamweight championship against Owen, had landed enough brutal punches before the twelfth and devastatingly conclusive round to break the nerve and resistance of an ordinary challenger.

The euro is a political idea born of calamitous European experience.

The kitchen makes mistakes, but they were never calamitous, in my experience.

Starkly reflecting the calamitous post-Soviet experience, Aytmatov's Kassandra tamgasy (1996; "The Mark of Cassandra"; first published in Russian in 1995 as Tavro Kassandry) is a novel of global dystopia.

In a general sense, while Cisco's year ended in a much more sour way than it began, the returns were not nearly as calamitous as those experienced by other telecommunications equipment providers like Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks.

Even relaxing in the Edgbaston crowd with a beer and taking in some Ashes cricket yesterday, injured Dons skipper Jobe Watson still couldn't escape the experience of calamitous losses.

But this so-called peer-to-peer lending, which until recently seemed that it might offer a reliable source of money in this calamitous economic environment, is now experiencing a squeeze of its own.

Kenny Milne's usual supplier of lucky white heather must have run out of stock, denying the big Falkirk defender the charm that might have prevented the appalling misfortune he experienced on a calamitous day for his team.

Ever since then Willie, too, has just looked as wild as heck".... Kristofferson's first [movie] experience was on Dennis Hopper's calamitous The Last Movie, in 1971.

Coke is cheery globally, but to chime with the Greek mood it drew on its experiences in Argentina during the calamitous early 2000s when it found ways to buck up customers.All the better if brands can seem more Greek than local rivals.