Sentence examples for What a misfortune from inspiring English sources

For the first, she borrowed from Kierkegaard: "What a misfortune to be a woman!

"I have seen what a great misfortune it is to be a child of rape," she said.

"She looked at me with bitter compassion as one might look at a little cripple boy, because she alone knew what a family ours was for misfortunes".

He drops back to +1, but what a response to that stroke of misfortune.

O, what terrible misfortune.

By what appalling misfortune has that hunger been allowed to fester and left to non-state agencies to deal with?

That could be a misfortune.

"A misfortune has befallen you.

It was a misfortune, not a crime.

It wasn't much of a misfortune.

But it is a misfortune, not a disaster.