Now that humanity has awakened to its dangers, Mr. Carrey implies, disaster can be averted.
Full-on, Al Vernacchio-style frankness with all that implies, "disaster prevention" education (the "if you must have sex, protect yourself" approach), abstinence (which I include in my list of options only reluctantly) or something in between?
Yet, no matter how trashed Nayar's sites may appear (some recall the aftermath of Japan's recent tsunami), you sense that any implied disaster is mitigated by the promise of transformation and renewal.
That's a disaster level, implying severe deflation in the debtor nations — or, more likely, a euro breakup.
It implies failure, disaster, even.
But while "concept album" often implies "sales disaster," "Mylo Xyloto" is filled with the soaring melodies, soft piano and twinkling guitar that Coldplay fans expect, along with some new territory for the band to explore.
The thought of having to give up driving would for some of the informants imply "a disaster", "catastrophe" and be "terrible".
Coal mining implies mining disasters, and the pollution from coal combustion results in some ten thousand premature deaths in this country each year.
If people became homeless in a post-disaster situation, it implies that the disaster destroyed housing and infrastructure, which affects the economy; thus, the number of people becoming homeless is considered as an indicator for housing damage in the model.
To me the term "disaster" implies the entire chain of events leading to a tragedy, while all those other more lurid terms pinpoint only the killer's action, ignoring what led to the motivation underlying it, and ignoring the victims entirely.
Since the failure of the federal levees in 2005 - in New Orleans, this is the preferred manner of describing what happened back then, as the word "hurricane" implies a natural disaster, which the levee breaks were certainly not - New Orleans has endured an excruciating non-recovery.
