Sentence examples for so calamitous that from inspiring English sources

A little more than 20 years ago the network replaced Jane Pauley with the younger Deborah Norville; that "Today" show shake-up was so calamitous that it became a founding fiasco of morning television.

And so it came about, this week, that I gazed at a black screen and saw words so calamitous that they might have been written in my own blood: "Screenplay by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher".

Five-year-old Paula's first meeting with her mother, for instance, was so calamitous that, she wrote in Borrowed Finery, "I sensed that if she could have hidden the act she would have killed me".

You may, understandably, feel that this rate skates over the frightening point that such events are so calamitous that everybody aboard dies – but in fact, contrary to that common belief, about 96 per cent of passengers involved in accidents survive to tell the tale.

Kaletsky argues that the implications of Brexit are so calamitous that it makes sense for a genuine effort on the part of the UK and the rest the EU to come to an accommodation on immigration and the single market, and then put it to parliament.

Last fall was so calamitous that the European Travel Commission is using 2000 as a basis for comparison when predicting visitor arrivals this fall from the United States, "Last year can't be used as a barometer," said Neil Martin, a commission spokesman.

And with Citigroup lowering Wal-Mart's rating one day before the call, some were left wondering whether the bank was deliberating trying to frame EFCA as so calamitous for business that Congress would recoil from touching it.

The SNP "do not even want our country to succeed, that is why it is so calamitous", he said.

The Scottish National party "do not even want our country to succeed, that is why it is so calamitous", he said.

So calamitous are the results, says the song, that only God's stake in an outcome other than ignominious oblivion saves the nation from complete devastation.

Today's anti-war campaign must learn from the Occupy movement and UK Uncut, as well as breaking that bipartisan parliamentary consensus for war which proved so calamitous in 2003, if the cycle of war is to end.