"It's more a story of personal calamity than it is impacting business," Mr. Stutz said of the fire.

And we learned that he was suspect only because of a personal calamity that's befallen him already.

With an ever-ready smile, a distracted demeanor and a willingness to hug just about anyone, Ms. Rich, 60, can seem unscathed by personal calamity.

Ramsey felt the death to be a personal calamity.

His previous convention speeches (if you believe his critics) clearly demonstrate his willingness to trot out personal calamity to further political goals.

Standing for the leadership was a personal and professional calamity for Miliband.

And she must engage an audience, one perhaps a bit fearful of the subject matter, with the intellectual authority she brings to bear on her personal calamity.

The couple had agreed to speak of their personal calamity.

Gangster rap is largely an indictment of bourgeois black cultural and political institutions by young people who do not find conventional methods of addressing personal and social calamity useful.

The auction by the former Texas Governor is playing out a story of personal and public calamity in a state that went through a giddy boom and a painful bust.