Sentence examples for cataclysmic disaster from inspiring English sources

The impression is one of figures hurled back by some cataclysmic disaster.

"This is a city that's made do every time there's some kind of cataclysmic disaster," Ms. Ascher said.

The flames that engulfed the factory, on the top three floors of a building at Washington Place and Greene Street, was the most cataclysmic disaster to befall a New York workplace until Islamist fanatics turned airplanes into missiles in 2001.

On the subject of which, the cataclysmic disaster romp 2012 20099, Sony, 12) is one of those bloody awful movies that makes you wish the End of Days would come sooner – to Hollywood at least.

"Expectation levels became so depressed that any news short of a cataclysmic disaster was going to create a rally," said Steve Massocca, president and head of trading at Pacific Growth Equities.

Mr. Bush was right to put a high priority on terrorism insurance, which is needed because some real estate development projects around the country are in danger of being stalled by the difficulty in getting coverage for a cataclysmic disaster like the one that struck the World Trade Center.

THREE TIMES IN recent years Pakistan has suffered from cataclysmic disasters.

Cataclysmic disasters fill the pages of human history, from Moses to "the little Dutch boy".

Best not to reveal too much but it involves theoretical physics, ancient folklore, a cataclysmic natural disaster, a historical investigation, a race against time and a sweeping romance.

After a week of being the primary topic of conversation wherever I seemed to go – the photo had almost 200 Likes by this point – I was hoping for anything that would deflect attention away from me; some kind of public celebrity freakout, a cataclysmic natural disaster – anything, really.

The University of California sociologist Fred Davis comments that nostalgia "thrives... on the rude transitions wrought by such phenomena as war, depression, civil disturbance, and cataclysmic natural disasters – in short, those events that cause masses of people to feel uneasy and to wonder whether the world and their being are quite what they always took them to be".