The Sheiks' "Sitting on Top of the World," an unhurried country song about the kind of breakup that feels more liberating than calamitous—"But now she's gone, I don't worry / I'm sitting on top of the world"—was later covered by Ray Charles, among others.
Few love letters have ever felt so gleefully calamitous.
No one has ever eked so much copy out of his adopted city's devotion to REI, Eddie Bauer and Velcro; its deracinated feel; the calamitous migration, to the suburbs, of great dim sum.
They are less sure now.Such independence probably feels good; the Lib Dems are certainly chipper for a party with such calamitous electoral prospects (see Bagehot).
Gorra gives us a chapter on George Eliot, for instance, whose account of a frustrated, half-frozen marriage, in "Middlemarch," can be felt behind Isabel's no less calamitous match with Osmond, and to whom James's anxious debt was such that — for The Atlantic Monthly, again, in 1876 — he couched his response to "Daniel Deronda" not as a straight review but as a three-voiced "Conversation".
Then, the sight of Stuart Broad appearing on crutches at the end of the day after being hit on the foot by Mitchell Johnson gave the whole thing a calamitous feel.
I don't feel their pain — which, bombarded as we are with calamitous information, is sort of the whole point, isn't it?
Case Keenum will return to action this Sunday, replacing the calamitous Nick Foles, but it's hard to feel too optimistic about your quarterbacking Plan B when it involves a man who has thrown all of three touchdown passes since 2013.
It is a Wednesday night in early December, and I am waiting in the lobby of the Rich Forum Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut, because I am here to see a taping of Maury, because I am an American, and gawking at the calamitous decisions of strangers is what we do to feel alive.
LOS ANGELES — It took only about seven weeks to lift the suffocating tension and calamitous aura from Dodger Stadium and turn it into what has felt these days like an endless, rollicking party.
