Sentence examples for personal catastrophe from inspiring English sources

In some cases, the consequence is personal catastrophe.

For many of those employees, that decline is a personal catastrophe: most of their wealth is gone.

He really does think the urgent issue today is jobs, jobs, jobs, because the personal catastrophe of unemployment, multiplied a millionfold, becomes a national catastrophe.

This book, while telling of a most personal catastrophe, ties us continually into the natural world that provides the center of this author's life and work.

Osborne did his best to explain them away, but Ed Balls is now trying to depict them as a personal catastrophe for the chancellor.

But woven inextricably into this personal catastrophe was Rhodes's lifelong love of classical music – a love that somehow imbued him with the strength to endure.

But his career was overshadowed and almost destroyed by a catalogue of controversies, personal catastrophes and social misjudgments.

He speaks in an unexpectedly light, clear voice that is nonetheless shading off into the maundering monologue of an old man, exhausted by war and personal catastrophes.

Smil wrote: I have become a denialist of sorts, trying to repress the news of assorted personal catastrophes: being deep in the "zone" (68 this December) I hear of them among my peers, and younger ones, all too often.

Actually, Soderbergh exterminates any potential microbes of mockery early on with a couple of brutal, personal catastrophes, and he doesn't scruple to visit bio-calamity on the big names.

Although he deals with a horror that has been widely described elsewhere, Kevin Bales, a sociology professor at the University of Surrey Roehampton in London, provides a stirring, solid picture of the economic forces and personal catastrophes that constitute the prostitution industry in Thailand.