catastroscope

Example Sentences

• "Confronted with such a word as "catastrophe," Durante runs amok and produces "catastroscope," which the late Robert Benchley argued was a great improvement. Even such a modest adjective as “exuberant” feels the edge of Durante’s scorn. It comes out “exubilant,” which is not only funny but more exuberant."
• "He'd like a tip like that, I says to myself, and to surprise him I slips in 10 pounds on the horse for him. And the horse loses to Pearson! A catastroscope!"
• "“What a ghastly catastroscope,” lamented his fellow-author. “Why do these gruesome hoohahs always have to pick on us to happen to?["]"
• "My congratulations to the team responsible for "TV Hell," your evening of selected tripe from the archives. ... Unfortunately, your researchers slipped up. As a connoisseur of catastroscopes, I am astonished there was no reference to a uniquely appalling show which elbowed itself onto the schedules about a decade ago."
• "Oh dear! A catastroscope here at Harringay Arena! The plucky young flyweight is down again!"
• "The other thing that's worth knowing about Harry is that the one thing he's never short of is ideas, and that's really where we come in now, because I got the idea for my Christmas special from him, and a right bleeding catastroscope it turned out to be."