Catastrophes
[kə'tæstrəfɪz]
Examples
- The Swiss deposits contain clear evidence of such catastrophes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That is what precipitates violence, that is what renders social co-operation impossible, that is what makes catastrophes the method of change. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Wars that were unmeaning catastrophes swept down upon any little gleam of prosperity or decency to which this or that community clambered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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