Sentence examples for disastrous encounter from inspiring English sources

Paulos's disastrous encounter with WorldCom sent him back to the world he knows best -- popularizing mathematics.

He won another Tony for directing the farcical La Cage aux Folles, about a gay nightclub owner's disastrous encounter with the strait-laced family of his son's fiancee.

In Frank O'Connor's "The Drunkard", a boy's disastrous encounter with a pint of porter prevents his father going on a long-anticipated drinking spree.

Don is there, shuffling towards his front door having allowed his priapism to take him to the verge of a disastrous encounter with Sylvia Rosen.

We were about to confront another incident, yet another video of another disastrous encounter between the police and a black person.

Losing elections is always painful, but there is one incident from 2010 that has left a scar on Labour's collective soul: Gordon Brown's disastrous encounter with Gillian Duffy.

Many, including the Mesa Police Department, have been criticized after disastrous encounters with the mentally ill.

But the safety issues surrounding young black males in any big city are many and complex -- and include the inevitable worries about disastrous encounters with the police.

Most lived out sad tales of attempting to return too late to their profession after disastrous encounters with exploitative men, when their improperly trained or long disused voices could no longer support their reputations.

Between these often disastrous encounters he discusses his love life with a mildly contemptuous therapist (Jeffrey Tambor) and a slightly sleazy best friend (Pete Chekvala, in scenes filmed at retro Thirsty Crow bar on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles).

Murray, a hapless and erotically frustrated middle-aged Scotsman now living in semi-retirement in Croatia (what he pretentiously calls "the Croatian Riviera"), has a number of disastrous encounters with local women.