We have already crossed into an unimaginable new epoch, but we seem unable to unite behind efforts to change, or even slow, our disastrous course.
Van Veeteren, disengaged, thinking of retirement and wonderfully enigmatic, makes an enjoyable change from all those fictional policemen who persist in taking their work home with disastrous consequences, and the slow pace – there's more introspection here than action – results in an intense read.
It tells of "a slow but disastrous cataclysm" for all humanity brought about by a combination of droughts, disease and war.
Despite the town's present-day beauty, Antigua has persisted through its fair share of catastrophes, from the colonial-era decimation of the indigenous population to a slew of disastrous earthquakes, the most recent of which killed 23,000 Guatemalans in 1976.
At the time, the planners thought this slowing was disastrous, but later on it helped the Allies.
I'll admit it, what I really wanted from The Affair was to watch two people fall inextricably in love and engage in a slow, torturous, wonderful, disastrous affair.
Overcoming a slew of potentially disastrous situations, Gordon passed Kyle Busch with eight laps left and stretched his lead from there, ending his winless streak at 66 races Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway.
At risk of over-stretching the frying-pans analogy, the flash-fry wok may be more likely to cause a disastrous kitchen fire than the slow-cook skillet, even if they both use the same amount of heat overall.
They, at least, do not believe the Chinese worker is as stalwart as all that.Their belief, it seems, is that slow growth would be disastrous, both for China and for their own jobs.
Maloney described Hextall's time with the team as having "a slow start and a disastrous finish".
