Sentence examples for on catastrophe from inspiring English sources

The happier I get, the more fixated I am on catastrophe.

Suitably for the site, the work's grandeur feels like the flip-side of disaster, as though British history is built on catastrophe.

The webs of light at the bottom of a swimming pool have been studied by the physicist Michael Berry and his colleagues in their work on "catastrophe optics".

He persuaded Lot 47 to gamble that Mr. Morrissette's vision would override his inexperience, a gamble that early on was teetering on catastrophe.

Still, for the weeks that the strike lasted, it seemed that resolution was dependent on catastrophe: for it to end, someone would have to die.

On "Catastrophe," whose second season just began streaming on Amazon, love is never declared; it is silently expressed when, say, one partner cuts the other's "clawlike" toenails.

Then, of course, they do fail, feel even worse, shut down even more, and carry on to catastrophe.

Disasters can hurt profits in one year, but also lead to a rise in premiums in following years witness the effects of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 on catastrophe-reinsurance rates subsequently (see chart).

The trouble with conventional disaster planning is its focus on catastrophes like hurricanes and dirty-bomb attacks, she said.

Ferri is an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame, where her interdisciplinary work has often focused on catastrophes and ruin in visual culture.

The earth is a volatile body, and though humanity has enjoyed an existence relatively low on catastrophes, our planet will occasionally demonstrate the tumult that lies just beneath its surface by tossing out an earthquake.