Sentence examples for disastrous vacation from inspiring English sources

On Saturday the program will screen "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" (1953), Jacques Tati's satire about the hapless Hulot and his absolutely disastrous vacation.

After a disastrous vacation with young twins, Ms. Roberts thought there would be an audience for a site that gave parents a way to share child-rearing experiences and advice, she said.

While the earlier film's most memorable figure is the cruelly insouciant villain played by Peter Lorre, the standout in the 1956 film is Stewart's family man on a disastrous Morocco vacation — he's a righteous Technicolor portrait in American decency and a prime example of Hitchcock's deep interlacing of star power and subject.

(Brantley) 'THE SEAGULL' Most of the characters in this boisterous revival of Chekhov's play about a stage diva's disastrous country vacation, directed by Viascheslav Dolgachev, appear to be participating in what might be called an act-off, a sort of provincial "Russian Idol" for thespians.

(Zinoman) 'THE SEAGULL' Most of the characters in this bizarrely boisterous revival of Chekhov's play about a stage diva's disastrous country vacation, directed by Viascheslav Dolgachev, appear to be participating in what might be called an act-off, a sort of provincial "Russian Idol" for thespians.

(Hampton) 'THE SEAGULL' Most of the characters in this bizarrely boisterous revival of Chekhov's play about a stage diva's disastrous country vacation, directed by Viascheslav Dolgachev, appear to be participating in what might be called an act-off, a sort of provincial "'Russian Idol"' for thespians.

(Jason Zinoman) 'THE SEAGULL' Most of the characters in this boisterous revival of Chekhov's play about a stage diva's disastrous country vacation, directed by Viascheslav Dolgachev, appear to be participating in what might be called an act-off, a sort of provincial "Russian Idol" for thespians.

It was a disastrous holiday.

As GOP standard bearer Mitt Romney stumbles his way back to the campaign trail following a disastrous European summer vacation, the energy surrounding his vice-presidential nominee has turned into, well, a tepid buzz.

"Beautiful Fools" takes place on another island vacation, the disastrous trip to Cuba that marked the last time F. Scott and Zelda saw each other.

"Last summer," wrote StCheryl, "we had a disastrous few days on vacation with another family whose son has an enormous collection of toys for his [Nintendo] DS. … The electronic games ended up causing a lot of friction between [the kids], and later, between us parents".