disastrousness

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I will make him a mockery of all kings, drag his high spirit through the mud of disastrousness.

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  • I will make him a mockery of all kings, drag his high spirit through the mud of disastrousness. —  The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
  • a desperation that has contributed decisively to the disastrousness of his presidency —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and other advocates "say that these consumer protections --- just for example, enforcing rules against predatory lending --- might have helped mitigate the disastrousness of the current disaster. —  Buck Naked Politics
  • What made this harder to bear was that though no fact is better established in theatrical business than the financial disastrousness of moral discredit, the journalists who had done all the mischief kept paying vice the homage of assuming that it is enormously popular and lucrative, and that I and Mr Daly, being exploiters of vice, must therefore be making colossal fortunes out of the abuse heaped on us, and had in fact provoked it and welcomed it with that express object. —  How He Lied to Her Husband
  • But I am about to make a single colossal, egregious, flagrant, and appalling oversight whose disastrousness is exceeded only by its irony What oversight?" —  Night Mare
 

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