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calamitous

[kuh-lam-i-tuhs] / kəˈlæm ɪ təs /


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Ari Roth’s new play, “My Calamitous Affair With the Minister of Culture and Censorship or Death of the Dialogic in the American Theater,” imagines thespians rehearsing a script that has 58 footnotes.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2022

Historian Barbara Tuchman, in "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century," writes that Christianity provided "the matrix and law of medieval life, omnipresent, indeed compulsory."

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2022

For the ultimate in medieval scuttlebutt, however, you can’t do better than Barbara Tuchman’s prizewinning 1978 history, “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.”

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2012

Calamitous to relate, it also disfigures the margin of our Revised Version of S. Mark vi.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William

In the year 1769 appeared his "Caution and Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies on the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions."

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various




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