Sentence examples for disastrous weekend from inspiring English sources

Those characters comprise the Bliss family during a disastrous weekend in their country home.

Their action fantasy "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," starring Nicolas Cage, had a disastrous weekend, selling just $17.4 million for the weekend for a five-day total of $24.5 million.

The game was half over, the Mets were ahead, 5-3, andisastrousrous weekend was creeping up on the Yankees.

The cancellations come after a disastrous weekend in which United, the world's largest airline, was racked by delays and forced to cancel about 600 flights, or about 15percentt of its weekend service.

The conceit in Perfect Nonsense, adroitly adapted by the Goodale Brothers from The Code of the Woosters (1938), is that, egged on by a friend, Bertie has hired a West End theatre in order to perform a one-man show about a disastrous weekend at Totleigh Towers.

[It] started off ok against Italy then a disastrous weekend in Dublin," Williams said.

Momentum, a thriller starring Olga Kurylenko and Morgan Freeman, never quite picked up speed, with a disastrous opening weekend in the UK.

There's more feelgood fare in The Stag (Arrow, 15), a rather gentle Irish attempt at Hangover-style lad farce – as the title suggests, it's about a predictably disastrous bachelor weekend in the sticks – that charms almost entirely on the strength of a nuanced, heartsore portrayal by Andrew Scott – Moriarty in Sherlock – of a best man with a doleful crush on the bride.

Also going straight-to-DVD is Billy Bob Thornton's Jayne Mansfield's Car (Anchor Bay, 15), a bizarrely structured, all-star family gumbo in which the two husbands (John Hurt and Robert Duvall) of a deceased southern belle converge upon her Alabama homestead for a disastrous funeral weekend.

With readings by Slake magazine poets like Iris Berry and John Tottenham, the opening also highlights Metson's graphic novels which were published in Slake, including his story of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, "Survivors Guild," based on his own experiences in New Orleans during that disastrous Labor Day weekend in 2005 and after.

In a severe case of bad timing, he announced the lineup for his first Coachella concert, after two years of planning, on the weekend when the disastrous Woodstock '99 festival took place in upstate New York.