Sentence examples for imagine disaster from inspiring English sources

Japan reached global prominence through science and technology, but we cannot deny that this has also resulted in an arrogance that has diminished our ability to imagine disaster.

A minor DeLillo conceived during the economic good times, it's a boutique-luxury literary event whose chief luxury was being able to imagine disaster in personal terms so exotic and disorientating that it was almost indistinguishable from the dizzying era of success that went before.

Here, at the annual two week camp for five to fourteen year olds in the Bostonlik district, it's difficult to imagine disasters amidst such beauty.

Fidelito (Julio Agustin) is the hysterical one, always frantic about her boyfriend (whom she met at Kentucky Fried Chicken) or some imagined disaster.

The other arists nominated were Bonnie Camplin's conspiracy theory-themed "The Military Industrial Complex"; Janice Kerbel's opera DOUG, described as "a choreographed history of imagined disaster"; and Nicole Wermers' "Untitled Chairs 2014-15", which featured fur coats stitched over Marcel Breuer chairs.

Potentially stressful events consume thoughts for months beforehand, and the often imagined disaster is analysed at great length afterwards.

In the 2012 National Geographic show Doomsday Preppers, American families are profiled stockpiling pickled vegetables, canned food and alcohol with which to barter with gangs of feral survivors of an imagined disaster scenario that's waiting to hit: societal breakdown brought on by hyperinflation; a massive earthquake; a solar flare destroying the world's computers.

As imagined disasters multiply, the scale of perceived danger inevitably outruns confidence in our defenses.

I had spent years girding against imagined disasters like bankruptcy and death, and I guess maybe I was tired.

Thirty and more years ago Prince Charles started lambasting modern architects for the actual and imagined disasters of recent city-building.

Psychology knows that he who imagines disasters in some way desires them.