The film isn't the total bummer that you might assume, especially given its vision of a society on the verge of wholesale collapse.

Further postponement would be costlier and would invite unthinkable risks of a wholesale collapse.

By most measures, the insurance industry remains healthy, and no one is predicting a wholesale collapse.

The immediately underlying Carboniferous Limestone has dissolved away in numerous locations such as at Pwll Byfre and resulted in the wholesale collapse of the sandstone beds above it.

And the wholesale collapse of institutions, like China's army - the world's largest - is something mankind has never seen.

As far as preventing a wholesale economic collapse goes, I think the admin has done a pretty decent job: B+, or possibly A-.

(The magazine's own take is more reassuring: There will be minor glitches but not wholesale societal collapse.)

Mild runs turned into routs and routs into wholesale collapses.

For us to lose there has to be a wholesale collapse unprecedented in the history of television.

If this quest is pursued to its logical end, scientists warn, it will lead to a wholesale collapse of marine ecosystems.