"true disaster" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is an expression used to refer to an event, situation, or outcome that is very serious and causes great destruction or distress. For example: "The hurricane created a true disaster - the city was left in ruins and hundreds of people were left homeless."
But did it also expose just how vulnerable the city is to a true disaster?
Some recent studies have suggested that it could be as high as 10°C.If that were true, disaster beckons.
So, is a special niche being prepared for "Spider-Man" along West 46th Street, on a wall that is a testament to true disaster?
"Even a reduction of 1 degree can make a huge difference". "Giving up the fight against global warming would be the true disaster," he added.
If we can't protect those of us who are most vulnerable, then we are failing to meet the challenges of true disaster preparedness.
This, I realized, was the true disaster: my feeling inconveniently obliged to care about the world's future problems in the present.
His various Pierrot-like protagonists are virtually untouched by the sour breath of reality until the true disasters of society overtake them and threaten to become the bigger drama, the grander spectacle.
The big battles are so wearing that it can be hard to concentrate on the small ones, and true disasters -- an Exxon Valdez, for instance -- set a precedent that seems to diminish the importance of more modest offenses.
Instead of just responding to true disasters like Northridge and the terrorist attacks, FEMA is now regularly called on to open its "disaster" wallet for events that are fairly predictable such as repeated flooding in flood-prone areas and even snowstorms.
He is also right that the failure to regulate derivatives, which sprang from that same mentality, was long supported by Greenspan and was one of the true disasters.
Ordinary folk are held incapable of the profundity of true tragedy; their disasters lack importance and beauty and are merely sad.
