calamity

Calamity,” Roth writes elsewhere, “when it comes, comes in a rush.

Corruption, suspicion, and a lack of doctors all add up to a growing calamity in Freetown.

Opposingly, White believed it would take cathartic calamity to trigger meaningful change.

These facts cast a new nightmarish tint to an already overwhelming public health calamity.

This weekend these war memories now flow into another historical calamity, the outbreak of World War I, 100 years ago.

She waited for no further formalities, but shaken with the sure foreboding of calamity, turned and fled the room.

Ethel's understanding perceived, but her mind refused to grasp the extent of the calamity.

The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof shall come on exceeding swiftly.

I became keenly aware of the dreadful psychic calamity it involved.

Owing to their strange appearance, comets were to the ancients omens of calamity.