Sentence examples for everyday catastrophe from inspiring English sources
I gave the two youngest ownership of the end table drawers in the sit-in living room, whose space never had a purpose but to operate as an everyday catastrophe.
Then there are the little everyday catastrophes like the one that befell a magazine editor who showed up at a Hollywood muckety-muck meeting with the buttons on her Chanel suit still carefully wrapped in the dry cleaner's tinfoil.
This statistic stuck in my mind - it was just so powerful because things like war and murder are always reported by news organizations, but everyday catastrophes like type-2 diabetes don't get any attention at all.
As the daughter of a nurse growing up not far from New York City, I had an early inkling of the kinds of everyday catastrophes that are caused by poverty - and of the disproportionate toll that poverty takes on children and women.
America may be the common destination, but the hardships that lead people to come here range from everyday adversity to historical catastrophe.
But it is eternally a lot of fun to watch as the characters, some fairy-tale famous, several others newly invented, contend with both magical catastrophes and everyday dilemmas.
First comes apprehension the hunter drawing near, the catastrophe unfolding, the everyday world altered into a sinister landscape of danger.
First comes apprehension — the hunter drawing near, the catastrophe unfolding, the everyday world altered into a sinister landscape of danger.
Robert Duvall's celebrated 1997 movie, "The Apostle," played with the same themes that so obsessed Greene and O'Connor -- the flawed individual struggling to find his way through the catastrophe of the everyday.
And if you suffer from anxiety, you will wish for a mind that does not spin every slightest situation into catastrophe — a mind that approaches everyday life with poise, reason and equanimity.
