There were moments, both at the beginning and at the end of Champions League calamity against Monaco, when it looked as if Arsenal were struck by an insecurity about whether they should go for it or be cautious.
Not so very long ago, there were three certainties about Lewis Moody: that he would always generate more joules of energy than any other player on the field; that he would, at some stage during a season, find himself on the painful end of an orthopaedic calamity; and that he would lead England at the World Cup in New Zealand.
For the institutions of power, the end of death is a calamity.
This history is celebrated in poetry too, which examines, among other subjects, the interface of their health and common fate the never-ending calamity of death.
When he came upon a play by Michel de Ghelderode about the end of the world, presented both as calamity and farce, he found a subject that inspired him to fashion his own kind of opera.
Treasures under water A plan to put Germans back into jobs Choose your club, America says A calamity, yet no end of war in sight Pope John Paul II and the European Union Reprints Related items Russia and its friends: Blowing your chancesAug 22nd 2002Well before the helicopter crash, it was clear the Chechen war was flaring up, not cooling down.
10 P.M. (Cinemax) SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (2012) As global calamity looms, Dodge (Steve Carell), a nebbishy New York insurance salesman whose wife has fled, embarks on a road trip with the girl next door (Keira Knightley, above with Mr. Carell) to find his long-lost high school love in this comedy directed by Lorene Scafaria.
5 10 P.M. (HBO2) SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (2012) As global calamity looms, Dodge (Steve Carell), a nebbishy New York insurance salesman whose wife has fled, embarks on a road trip with the girl next door (Keira Knightley) to find his long-lost high school love in this comedy directed by Lorene Scafaria.
1 A.M. (MoreMax) SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (2012) As global calamity looms, Dodge (Steve Carell), a nebbishy New York insurance salesman whose wife has fled, embarks on a road trip with the girl next door (Keira Knightley) to find his long-lost high school love in this comedy directed by Lorene Scafaria.
There's even a calamity at the end of the second act, followed by a re-energised return to the fray when Sandra and her husband psyche themselves up by singing along to Van Morrison's Gloria on a car stereo.
