"It was a complete catastrophe".
"It's a pure and simple catastrophe," said Ms. Atlan's mother, Monique Amsellem, 46.
"It's a pure and simple catastrophe," offered the owner, Monique Amsellem, 46, Ms. Atlan's mother.
Pure boost: the catastrophe of ephemera.
Band Aid's simple message erased all political complexity from the Ethiopian famine – not a natural disaster pure and simple, but a catastrophe used and exacerbated by a brutal government to destroy rebel fighters challenging its authority.
In sum, failures do not come any more abject than Iraq, nor catastrophes any more pure.
"Pure" words, without qualifiers, such as "event", "stimulus", "loss", "disaster" or "catastrophe" are used for such description.
In sufficient amounts, pure methane escaping from the Arctic seabed would spell a climate catastrophe, a tipping point that would radically alter earth's climate in a very short space of time.
It concludes with his death from an injury received in the post-Rodney King verdict rioting in Oakland, a bitter but possibly fitting irony, as most of Jonah's life was lived at the purest "artistic" remove from the catastrophes of race.
