calamity

Mpambi, also 28, had been on the vessel and survived the calamity.

Local authorities declared a “state of calamity” for all of Cebu Province and called for medical volunteers to support overwhelmed hospitals, especially in Bogo City, home to some 90,000 people, and surrounding villages.

Ms. Morton astutely manages his mother’s way of trying to create calm out of calamity.

But the wonderful Mr. Kirrane makes his character so repellent you just know he’s going to meet some kind of calamity.

There is a way that these repetitive movements can ward off calamities, outfox deterioration, at least to a point.