For instance, the precipitous declines in home values and investment portfolios — realities that no doubt weigh heavily on readers of this magazine — feature calamitously in both eras, but in the 1930s a far smaller portion of the population owned houses or equities than does now. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He even escaped Gallipoli, where after a calamitously botched Allied campaign more than 50,000 Allied and Turkish troops died on the steep slopes above his head – only to die in March 1917 aged 23, in the First Battle of Gaza. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Logitech leapt into it last year, calamitously; in the first three months of 2011 more people returned its "Revue" set-top boxes than were sold as Christmas good ideas turned out to be flops. ❋ Unknown (2012)
All legislators-turned-presenters, however, should remember the example of Harold Wilson who, three years after resigning as prime minister, hosted a BBC chatshow called Friday Night, Saturday Morning, and performed so calamitously that the editions feature in polls of TV's worst moments. ❋ Unknown (2011)
On the third hand, there are real calamitously costly high-tech "heroic" medical costs, not expected and often near the end of life (or threatening to be so). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Say what you will about a civilization that screws up as calamitously as ours is doing in the Gulf, it's still hard not to get a lump in your throat when entering the massive Javits Convention Center and encountering exhibitors as far as the eye can see engaged in nothing more harmful than trying to amuse and inform humanity. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As the recession worsened, auto sales dropped calamitously, from around 17 million cars sold a year to fewer than 10 million. ❋ JONATHAN ALTER (2010)
Counterfactual simulations indicate that world prices would have increased slightly between 1929 and 1933, instead of declining calamitously, if the historical relationship between world gold reserves and world prices had continued. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His blood counts had dropped calamitously during the midcycle of chemotherapy. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
He argues that the world has changed calamitously since Huxley wrote his pieces. ❋ Kate Kellaway (2010)
Promoters of something called "resilience engineering" suggest that planners should put more effort into designing systems that resist disruption and that degrade gracefully, rather than failing calamitously when stressed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He did that, and knows that he did it and presumably — not being an utter and complete imbecile — knows that it was a calamitously wrong call. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Fairlie's critique of American conservatism began with a GOP heresy: that by embracing the free market so completely, the party had gone calamitously awry. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This was wrong, hopelessly wrong, calamitously wrong. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It is now obvious that this strategy of accommodation calamitously underestimated not only the opposition change in the status quo would generate among health care interests, but also how effectively they could use their wealth in the political process. ❋ Unknown (2009)
[craig]: 'not only [am i gay], [im] a calamite.' ❋ Richie Dagger (2006)
Jason: "So yeah, I booked a 36 hour flight halfway around the world for a [fivesome] with these four homeless girls. The plane is really old, and in worsening condition, and there is a lot of murder and violence in their country, but I just want to stick my dick into [some pussy]. I haven't had that in months. I was tired of waiting, so I jerked off to their voices."
epic135: "What the fuck, you are beyond [down cataclysmic]" *Proceeds to go to urban dictionary and create a definition for "Down Calamitous"* ❋ Epic135 (2021)
The [collapse] of the huge shopping [mal]; was utterly [calamitous]. ❋ Kangsaebyeokplayer67 (2021)
