Sentence examples for universal calamity from inspiring English sources

Though veering somewhat uneasily between romantic comedy and political tragedy, the movie repels partisan sympathies, emphasizing a more universal calamity.

Like Ralph Waldo Emerson, who responded to the crash of 1837 by writing of the "good" in "such emphatic and universal calamity as the times bring," Taleb sees reason for encouragement in, for instance, the rapid shrinking of certain institutional endowments: "Universities will have less funding, so economists will lay low and won't burden us with as much nonsense".

Jonathan Swift writes: "Happiest, beyond all comparison, are those excellent Struldbrugs, who, being born exempt from that universal calamity of human nature, have their minds free and disengaged, without the weight and depression of spirits caused by the continual apprehensions of death!" The thing is, though, that eternal life is not all it's cracked up to be.

We must keep alive aspirations which can remain valid throughout the longest and darkest period of universal calamity and degradation".

If the universal calamities of his first three movements keep our attention, "A Song of Liberty" at the end does something more.

Recently, when the Republican majority in Congress temporarily blocked funds for Sandy relief and rehabilitation efforts, it was a chilling reminder that no matter how universal a calamity is, we live in times when the commonwealth regularly takes a backseat to wealth.

In truth, this isn't a personal calamity but a universal one, because the world is full of people who aren't living where they should be, and if they are they have to run away.

I have written about how the fractured nature of financial institution regulation and insolvency in the United States means that in or out of the authority, failure of a big, integrated "universal bank" (or as close as we get to those in the United States) would be something of a calamity.

Oh calamity!

It's our calamity".

Calamity and banality blur.