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Example sentences for: calamitous

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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.
For dear means beloved, affectionate, precious, and the like; but the exclamation Oh! dear! is one that denotes something very different, something that is lamentable or calamitous, and very far from being pleasant.
The collapse of Microsoft would not be quite as calamitous as a nuclear war.
I'll try not to eviscerate the laughably dour eXistenZ , a virtual-reality guessing game of a thriller in which David Cronenberg, evidently licking his wounds over the calamitous receptions of Crash (1996), M. Butterfly (1993), and Naked Lunch (1991), goes back to the terrain he once profitably mined in Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983).
The condition of a long-lived asset is affected by its durability, the quality of its design and construction, its use, the adequacy of maintenance that has been performed, and many other factors, including: accidents (an unforeseen and unplanned or unexpected event or circumstance), catastrophes (a tragic event), disasters (a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction), and obsolescence.