Sentence examples for calamitous illness from inspiring English sources
In brisk outline Mr. Bock's drama resembles one of those disease-of-the-week television movies so easily derided (and furtively enjoyed), in which happy middle-class lives are upended when a calamitous illness comes stalking.
Calamitous as Schiller's illness was, it produced a piece of great good luck.
João Carlos Martins, the founder and conductor of this Brazilian ensemble, had a successful career as a pianist in the 1960s before a calamitous series of injuries and illnesses robbed him of his ability to play professionally.
As illnesses go, it's hardly calamitous.
It usually takes a calamitous event — such as a tumble down a staircase, an illness or injury or financial ruin — to force the issue.
The clients who come to her are battling with a range of issues such as burnout, depression, anorexia, anger, fear, mid-life crisis, lifestyle transition, calamitous relationships, divorce, in-between jobs, death of family members, and illness.
Traditionally, medicine people are called upon to prevent or heal the physical and mental illnesses of individuals as well as the social ruptures that occur when murders and other calamitous events take place within a community.
Not calamitous or terminal.
The result was calamitous.
Calamitous is probably better.
