Sentence examples for like a disastrous from inspiring English sources

I was just doing my weird thing, which probably seemed like a disastrous nonroute to many of the people who were watching over me.

Retailers are now hoping the coming two days will turn what looks like a disastrous Christmas into just a dismal one.

It co-stars Billy Bob Thornton as a US army officer and, in what looks like a disastrous piece of casting, Alfred Molina as an Afghan official.

The big difference between Cameron and Corbyn, however, is that the Prime Minister has managed the divisions on his side without it looking like a disastrous shambles from The Thick of It.

At first - in fact at first, second and third - it looked like a disastrous attempt to personalise him, the interview equivalent of losing 25m names and addresses on a revenue and customs database (Darling had to announce that too).

But it has also had trouble attracting and keeping top people.Partly to address that, it took what now looks like a disastrous punt (though other investment banks have done likewise) in creating a hedge-fund venture in 2005 run by John Costas, the former head of investment banking.

She's drawn not to the gambler in Huck but to the responsible man she would like him to be — a disastrous basis for a love affair, and a stuffy idea for a movie romance.

But he is left sounding like Stephen Hawking making a disastrous attempt to woo someone across a station concourse.

"I don't even feel like I played a disastrous match.

And when you have a gigantic national deficit, a government that can't respond to national emergencies like Hurricane Katrina and a disastrous war you can't pay for -- that might be the point where taxes are simply too low to pay for the government the American people want and expect.

Alas, this Administration is unlikely to take such sensible steps, preferring instead to stick with a disastrous, ostrich-like policy of drift and appeasement.