It was a depressing and even debilitating task, for there were no worlds that didn't have their daily relatively minor catastrophes.

That would be a minor catastrophe.

In other words, the changes do not take place gradually but as sporadic bursts, as a series of minor catastrophes.

The dumpling stops a minor catastrophe.

Just one minor catastrophe, like a health crisis or unexpected bill, can make someone homeless.

Every moment an adventure, full of laughter and minor catastrophes.

Or maybe a taste for arranging minor catastrophes!

The journey was a minor catastrophe: storms broke out followed by a dead calm that slowed the ship's progress.

And if he had panicked, and not thought to move that suicidal woman's body away from the scene, a minor catastrophe might have exploded into a major scandal.

He wants only a minor catastrophe to kill himself over, so depressed he is.