Sentence examples for their calamities from inspiring English sources

Their calamities were of ancient date and they knew them to be irremediable".

Unless you're Christopher Hitchens, who can write about dying while you're dying, I think most writers need some distance from their calamities.

Every turn there is a frenetic five-minute round of open trading as players try to get matches to the goods they have and dump their calamities on other players," he or she said.

Lastly, unworthily trampling upon the Lacedaemonians in their calamities, and gratifying his hostility by a most oppressive and arbitrary action, he abolished the laws of Lycurgus, and forced them to educate their children and live after the manner of the Achaeans; as though, while they kept to the discipline of Lycurgus, there was no humbling their haughty spirits.

Only the very toughest inspectors of intimacy can recount their own past without indulgence, daring to treat their calamities, or idle joys, as if they belonged to somebody else; hence the controlled blaze of early Truffaut, or Fellini's "I Vitelloni," or John Boorman's "Hope and Glory".

This is the industry passing their calamity on to kids..

People eagerly share conspiratorial evidence of Pakistan's hand in their calamity.

As he watched the faces of the people marching into exile, he wondered if there was a Jeremiah among them to lament their calamity and disgrace.

Watching the videos of Japanese citizens in the aftermath of their calamity, one can observe many of these interventions already at work.

Yet that anxiety never varies, and for 75 minutes the miserable lovers scream at each other incessantly, first casting blame for their calamity, then detailing their own list of faults.

— Amid great destruction, with at least two dozen people dead — including nine children — the residents here began to assess the severity of their calamity Tuesday after their third major tornado in 14 years, a staggering run of weather misfortune.