Sentence examples similar to profound calamity from inspiring English sources
While we were not there ourselves, the aftershocks of this sort of calamity are profound, and after a few hours on the telephone we have tried to reconstruct the events of that fateful evening.
The sound failed — O calamity!
So to begin with, the Philippine state, regardless of the political will of its officials in the run up to or the immediate aftermath of a natural calamity, suffered from a profound capacity deficit.
John: In July 2007, I was blessed to be in front of an incredible swami (Dhanurdhara Swami) who gave a profound teaching on what to do when tragedy or calamity strikes.
Leaders issue profound words of regret, accompanied by solemn pledges that such calamities cannot be allowed to happen again.
Mr Morin's book is inspirational and profound and offers a jumble of ways to save the world from environmental/economic calamity and a cataclysmic, three way (West v Islam v China) clash of civilisations.
But while deeply, if temporarily, compelling and preoccupying, such calamities on a large scale tend to reach us at a profound emotional level -- to truly evoke our passions -- only when they wear a face.
This tendency to frame our calamity from the perspective of future historians doesn't so much reveal the profound importance of recent developments – Brexit, Trump, Le Pen, etc – as it does our impotence in relation to them.
Calamity succeeds calamity!
