Sentence examples for real calamity from inspiring English sources
The real calamity is human.
The real calamity is in the villages, many of which are accessible only on foot.
For a nation obsessed with saving for old age, inflation is a real calamity.
For real calamity, Richard Horne is your man, and "A Is for Armageddon" is his illustrated catalog of all the ways you and the world might bite it.
What may be thought of at the time as a "disaster" — that bump in the car or that heart twinge — may be a blessing in disguise if behavior is modified sufficiently to prevent a real calamity later on.
But Pete Callaway, of N. T. Callaway Real Estate in Princeton, N.J., told colleagues at a conference about a real calamity: three canceled deals during his drive to work last Friday.
The real calamities here aren't so much the early deaths of Shelley and Byron as those of their dependents.
In an interview, Dr. Chansky said that when real calamities occur, "you will be in much better shape to cope with them if you don't entertain extraneous catastrophes".
Other real calamities -- economic, domestic terrorism, natural disasters -- seem to have taken over that part of the cultural subcortex where fear is stored.
They are locked in the past: obsessed by problems that the rest of the country has gone beyond (such as gay marriage) and incapable of offering solutions to real calamities, such as the recent economic crisis.
Since then, it has been a news staple, playing out along a number of narrative plot lines — an engineering whodunit, a slow-motion real estate calamity and also a civic cautionary tale.
