Sentence examples for My misfortune from inspiring English sources

"My misfortune was that I was born of a different sex," she said.

"My misfortune was not having enough money to bribe those [corrupt officials] who had framed me, so I had to flee.

It was just my misfortune they all turned out to be the wrong pieces.

"I think it is my misfortune to look like a stereotypical scientist," he said.

And as one for whom the covenant he always had with this land has become, to my misfortune, a covenant of blood.

Charles Spencer kicks things off by saying: "This is as unpleasant a pile of theatrical poo as it has ever been my misfortune to tread in".

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] business in CubaSIR – I enjoyed reading your article about my misfortunes, albeit many months after publication and in the company of fellow inmates at a Cuban high-security prison.

The famous autobiographies of late antiquity and the Middle Ages — St. Augustine's "Confessions" and Abelard's "History of My Misfortunes" — bared all in order to help other sinners save their souls; unlike Montaigne's "Essais," they were professedly intended for sober religious purposes.

I bring this up not to gain admittance to the nation's ever-expanding victim class — my misfortunes with academia led to the unexpected good fortunes of teaching terrific students at America's military universities and conducting research on pressing topics.

My parents were the cause of my misfortunes, as surely as if they'd walked me downtown and into the arms of every man I'd encountered.

Richard Wagner says in a letter to Hans von Bülow, "I want... everyone who can take pleasure in my works, ie, my life and what I do [to know] that what gives them pleasure is my suffering, my extreme misfortune!" Science over the past century in the west has brought many comforts and blessings including longer lifespans.