Sentence examples for most cataclysmic from inspiring English sources

And then came the most cataclysmic blow.

The most cataclysmic were the two world wars.

The miners' strike of 1984-85 is the most cataclysmic event in postwar British history.

It was probably the most cataclysmic moment in the history of music.

That war has since degenerated into the most cataclysmic bloodbath for generations.

She was in grade school during the most cataclysmic events of the civil rights era.

If, to paraphrase a quote attributed to Thomas Mann, a person's dying is more his family's affair than his own, the event is for most families cataclysmic and life-altering.

One researcher described it as the first full picture of one of the most violent, cataclysmic events in the universe.

Having survived that most destructive, cataclysmic time (my father was evacuated at Dunkirk and ended the war liberating Arnhem) they wanted to do something positive, that would last.

The 1990's recession lacked some of the ingredients of today's problems -- most important a cataclysmic event that sent jobs streaming away from Lower Manhattan, immediately closed off spigots of corporate spending and sent consumers into a kind of anti-spending shock.

That outside world, as we know, had entered upon one of its most murderous and cataclysmic phases, though "none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror... and if there was something culpable about such political ignorance in that time and place, there was something positive about the security I inhabited as a result of it".