Sentence examples for * lousy luck from inspiring English sources

Even then, by one of those stabs of lousy luck which Waugh likes to inflict, the Major lets his charges down.

(It's the old Ben Jonson problem: you're a fine playwright, and at any other time you'd be the best, but by lousy luck you happen to overlap with Shakespeare, who takes gold in every medley in town).

The camera was presumably a camcorder, of the kind that shrank in size and grew in ubiquity through the nineties, and Winehouse, by a stroke of lousy luck, entered the giddying spirals of her ordeal just as iPhones fell into the moist palms of the public.

Directed by Robert Wise (who had edited "Citizen Kane"), "The Set-Up" is a tight, intensely moving, pocket-size masterwork about Stoker Thompson, a washed-up, 35-year-old heavyweight who believes he's just "one punch away" from changing his lousy luck.

The only truly meaningful attempt to address the problem before the Revolution was devised by the inventor and engineer Christopher Colles, who had every talent a man in his line of work needed but was cursed with plain old lousy luck.

There were such things, in Bradley's mind, as lousy starts, rotten luck, and bad cards.

Pity the faded, the bloated, the blowsy, the paunchy Adonis whose luck's gone lousy.

But dedicated fans of teams have no interest in being free from history, from the years of losses and poor trades and lousy decisions and simple bad luck.

They have had five fourth-quarter game-winning drives, and Luck has rebounded from some lousy performances to pull out victories (like last week against Detroit).

But it's a lousy basis for government policy, since it lets dumb luck — that is, whether some relative of yours had the good fortune to get here before you — shape the immigrant population.

In 1973, he'd bought a lousy team, at a relative bargain (less than ten million), and lucked out shortly thereafter, when free agency was introduced, exploiting it to infamous gain.