Sentence examples for Terrible misfortune from inspiring English sources

O, what terrible misfortune.

The song is passed down through Stanley's family, and with it, terrible misfortune.

I didn't hope terrible misfortune would snuff out their innocent, youthful joy.

The terrible misfortune for Parker, and for jazz generally, is that he was just as determined to kill himself by gargantuan excesses of every kind, particularly drugs.

Before Maisie can fully comprehend her assignment from Miss Grange, a terrible misfortune befalls the young woman's family and she must return home to Brooklyn.

"Lee was a normal, loving young man in the army who had the terrible misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Both advise indifference toward what might seem, to the untrained mind, terrible misfortunes.

And the terrible misfortunes the Haitian people have endured have added to this logic a deep sense of moral obligation.

Snickett's telling of the terrible misfortunes that befall the orphaned Baudelaire children has delighted children with its gothic imagination and black humour.

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (Egmont, £5.99) is the first in a series which goes under the collective title A Series of Unfortunate Events, and recounts the terrible misfortunes of the Baudelaire orphans whose troubles have only just begun when their parents are consumed by fire.

As B. Parker is recounting the list of terrible misfortunes that caused his decline into pizza-munching bachelorhood, he mentions that he broke his back.