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Press, contends that it was Schulz's "calamitous artistic misjudgment" that allowed Snoopy and cuteness to overwhelm the "left-field" magic that characterized the early strip.
Domestic and foreign critics called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a terrorist and a fool and added that the attack was so stupid and potentially calamitous that he's lucky he screwed it up.
In London, the Times, which has opposed Pinochet's arrest, criticized the British government for rejecting "the best way of settling this calamitous affair, allowing General Pinochet to fly home on Chile's waiting jet" and, instead, permitting the court decision in his favor to go to appeal.
The collapse of Microsoft would not be quite as calamitous as a nuclear war.
In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebastião ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.