Sentence examples for famous disaster from inspiring English sources

It was a famous disaster, every dramatic lurch downwards played out in public.

The painting represents a complicated moment in Elizabeth Taylor's life and is linked, aesthetically, to Warhol's famous disaster series.

The ballet's birth in Paris in 1913 after weeks and weeks of tense rehearsals was a famous disaster.

Yet Django, content to make whatever music was around, might never have been the man to crossbreed musette and jazz had the famous disaster of his life not happened.

The nearest I'd come to feeling that moment before was Francis Ford Coppola's "One From the Heart" (1982), a famous disaster that went so far over budget it helped destroy Mr. Coppola's dream of a Los Angeles studio.

He was a famous disaster as a president, basically because he was too decent.

Proximity to famous disasters is a good way to get people talking about you.

The result was one of the most famous disasters in post-war British theatre.

The Brits, shown live where the Baftas are time-delayed, is a much slicker spectacle these days, avoiding the famous disasters of the past.

Pen computing, as this concept is known, has been catnip to investors and inventors for years, but Silicon Valley is strewn with the corpses of famous disasters.

The collision of the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm in the waters off Nantucket on July 25 , 1956 is one of the most famous disasters in maritime history.