One who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!'

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis

I don't see a crisis on the horizon.

I think we can always do more to get ourselves together, especially at a time of crisis, ... We can work together without having to adopt the same philosophical positions.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

The closing of Good Hope's emergency room and its inpatient psychiatric unit presented us with a real crisis.