Sentence examples for a common misfortune from inspiring English sources

In fact such is the humanising effect of a common misfortune, they almost felt drawn to him".

It's a common misfortune when a kid loses their shoe for a second, and it disappears into the Halloween night.

If Taiwan, to our common misfortune, should become the object of a confrontation between China and America, the Europeans may have to do some work — in the Middle East, for example, helping block maritime routes.

In one passage, Andric writes of how a flood brought Christians, Jews and Muslims together to rebuild: "The force of the elements and the weight of common misfortune brought all these men together and bridged, at least for this one evening, the gulf that divided one faith from the other". Kusturica brightened at the mention of this story.

"Crimes of the Heart" encompasses a slew of memories and events so awful that the sisters ultimately can only laugh about them, which rescues these characters from despair and compels them to overcome their common misfortunes.

It's as low a common denominator as the plot with the dowdy girl who ends up attracting the handsome boy and becoming the homecoming queen even though she has the misfortune of wearing glasses and being clever.

The Stoics seem to hint that we should see illness as an "indifference" and a misfortune and then choose.

The war was a fortune that became a misfortune.

My cousin is a genius who experienced a misfortune.

"A MISFORTUNE turns into a blessing", goes an old Korean saying.

It was a misfortune, not a crime.