Sentence examples for calamitous figure from inspiring English sources

In "Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939," Mr. Ullrich sets out to strip away the mythology that Hitler created around himself in "Mein Kampf," and he also tries to look at this "mysterious, calamitous figure" not as a monster or madman, but as a human being with "undeniable talents and obviously deep-seated psychological complexes".

But all that has happened is that a calamitous average polling figure of 21% at the height of the expenses scandal is now simply a slightly less calamitous 28%.

What about the many women and men who stay in calamitous relationships and can't figure out a way to get beyond destructive habits?

Most calamitous of all are the figures released last week that show the number of diagnosed cases of foetal alcohol syndrome – that is, newborns with hooch already coursing through their small veins – has tripled in the past 15 years.

While the construction of alarming tables and figures demonstrating the calamitous effects of sugar (and specifically, fructose -- Dr. Lustig's particular nemesis) can be defended with legitimate science, it is nonetheless something of a distortion.

Clinton said he believed the next generation "will be given one final chance to figure out how to avoid calamitous consequences of climate change.

You would expect newspaper sales to drop in August as readers head for the beaches, so the important comparison is the year-on-year figures which range from catastrophic to calamitous.

And next weekend, over three hours on UKTV's Drama channel, Dance will play another patrician figure, Sir Ian Hamilton, the British First World War general who oversaw the calamitous Gallipoli landings.

So how should we take the news that Andreessen Horowitz, set up by two of the figures behind the Netscape browser – that "web thing" which helped put newspapers in the calamitous state they're mostly in – is investing $50m in Buzzfeed, the online publisher?

His Open form of late is tremendous (give or take the odd calamitous collapse at Lytham).

Not calamitous or terminal.