But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.
Quotes about calamitous (6 Quotes)
The major event (of Greenspan's tenure) was making the stock market crash of 1987 be nothing but a little asterisk in financial history as opposed to a calamitous event as the 1929 crash turned out to be.
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
Verily the reward is as great as the misfortune that is, the more unfortunate and calamitous one is, the greater and more perfect his reward. And verily, when God loveth a people, He entangleth it in misfortune therefore, he who is resigned to the pleasure of God, in misfortune, for him is God's favor.
Pursuing petty physical beauty leads man astray it is as calamitous as the pursuit of trivial joy.
The rise in oil prices wouldn't be quite as calamitous in Japan as it would in the U.S., where the people are more energy-dependent, ... Even though Japan may be efficient in its use of oil, like everyone else it still crimps your monthly budget. They're paying more for gasoline, so they're not immune to that.