Sentence examples for element of catastrophe from inspiring English sources

There's always an element of catastrophe in Anderson's films, yet here it's set in expressly mythopoetic, religious terms, with the local historian and narrator (Bob Balaban) foretelling, as if prophetically, apocalyptic doings.

M.H.: You know, it's not as bad as you might think, given all of the various elements of catastrophe that you've just described, or near catastrophe.

Once negligible facts or events suddenly reveal themselves as central to the tragedy - an element of the Balkan catastrophe familiar to anyone who witnessed it (Ugresic is Croatian, but prefers not to be identified as a "Croatian novelist").

Among the most striking elements of the catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in Japan were the hydrogen explosions that destroyed the upper parts of some of the reactor buildings.

The commanding general, Paul Harkins, was unwittingly preparing a catastrophe for the American enterprise in South Vietnam & for those Vietnamese who had thrown in their lot with the US & Vann saw the elements of that catastrophe with more clarity than anyone else in Vietnam at the time & was determined to prevent it.

"He challenges an actor to go to the limits of human experience, and find the surprising elements of humor and pathos, the absurd and the pathetic, at the very edges of catastrophe.

Furthermore, since the development of earlier versions of catastrophe models, technology and computing power have advanced enormously, allowing modelers to address key elements of model and loss uncertainty in a more systematic way.

We are on the brink of catastrophe".

"Contagion" — A businesslike, unexaggerated vision of catastrophe.

The true catastrophe is that we are living under a permanent threat of catastrophe"..

That is the promise of catastrophe models like RMS'.