court disaster
Example Sentences
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To buy your own hype or indulge your own propaganda — to treat your image as reality and close yourself to criticism and critique — is to court disaster.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
In scene after scene, he seems to court disaster with a cavalier disregard for his safety — courageous, yes, but arguably a poor form of leadership, given what followed.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2022
John Hickenlooper, the former governor of Colorado, said that this approach would court disaster.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 31, 2019
German diplomats warn that redrawing boundaries in a region still reeling from war would court disaster.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2019
To prize a man out of bed at some absurd hour like nine-thirty is to court disaster.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
