Sentence examples for a certain unfortunate from inspiring English sources

"We were onstage when the Gulf War started," Mr. Goldman said, "so there's a certain unfortunate déjà vu".

There is a certain unfortunate quality now to the ongoing revelations about the National Security Agency's interwoven mass surveillance programs: each aspect of our digital life that seems untouched by the agency is, in fact, merely a gap waiting to be filled in by a new set of leaked information.

Not only is… There is a certain unfortunate quality now to the ongoing revelations about the National Security Agency's interwoven mass surveillance programs: each aspect of our digital… The other week, Snapchat, a social network most notable for the ephemerality of its content — messages containing photos or videos disappear entirely within ten seconds, even….

Photograph by Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times There is a certain unfortunate quality now to the ongoing revelations about the National Security Agency's interwoven mass surveillance programs: each aspect of our digital life that seems untouched by the agency is, in fact, merely a gap waiting to be filled in by a new set of leaked information.

In certain unfortunate circumstances, a parent may decide to cut off any relationship a grandparent may have with the grandchild for reasons only known to the parent.

From the start of this year's process, there has been a clear-eyed recognition that certain unfortunate realities would be unavoidable.

He elicits amazingly vivid and concise performances (especially from DeVito and Whitaker), and, without rummaging through backstories, simply shows the lure of the payoff to be irresistible to certain unfortunate souls.

Ironically, as Wolin points out, the power implied which is "remote, abstract, and virtually unseen"—"bore certain unfortunate resemblances to the kind of power which the colonists had rejected less than two decades earlier when they had rebelled against the authority of the British Crown…" (Idem).

In our global economy, despite all the diversity of black communities worldwide, there are certain unfortunate experiences we share.

"There perhaps been certain unfortunate incidents in certain base cities around the country but nothing like the systematic problem that these Chicken Littles would have you believe," he said.

Remember the balmy days of late July and a certain someone's unfortunate cargo shorts and your own statement-making shades, the shattering sunlight and the trickle of Popsicle juice making its way down your wrist?