Britain's leadership of the community, he said, "is the most calamitous that I have seen in my time in government."

But the universe does not have our own best interests at heart, and to assume for a moment that it does, ever did or ever might is to make the most calamitous and hubristic of mistakes.

As the interviews in Ms. Russell's valuable book testify, the system is most calamitous for black women, who are seen officially as the "superfluous appendages" of their men.

After a thousand years of study, from close up and far away, it's a bit unnerving how much we don't know about what happens in the center of the most calamitous of stellar catastrophes.

The book notes that his most calamitous performance was being cleaned bowled by the American actress Mary Anderson in the 1897 "test" against the village of Broadway, in the Midlands.

By evening a number of boats were in position and commenced the attack, which became one of the most calamitous of the entire campaign for the U-boat Arm (U-Bootwaffe,UBW).

These brothers are heroes of that war, which will be the gravest and most calamitous in history.

The year 1922 was the most calamitous in the whole history of modern Greece.

The Greek writer Dimitris Pentzopoulos wrote, "It is no exaggeration to call the year '1922' the most calamitous in modern Hellenic history."

For the moment, though, it is viewed as among the most calamitous ever.