Sentence examples for a curse upon from inspiring English sources

Alberich places a curse upon the Ring.

There is supposed to be a curse upon Ajanta.

The Devil had cast a curse upon my evening.

Then, inexplicably, the mariner shoots and kills it, bringing a curse upon the vessel.

I had my teeth knocked out and those who did it were my fellow-proletarians, a curse upon humankind.

Alberich foreswears love, a curse upon himself that earns him the right to the Rhinegold and the ring.

A technical diver from Dahab, Omar began exploring the Blue Hole in 1992, fascinated by tales of a curse laid upon it when an unwilling party to an arranged marriage drowned herself there.

In another country legend from the Lampeter area, the house and estate at Maesyfelin were subject to a curse, placed upon them by the local vicar.

In his meager spare time, Perls has been dabbling in writing a screenplay about a curse put upon the Boston Red Sox by the ghost of Babe Ruth, who died in 1948 at the age of 53.

By 1962, the disappearance of Bill Barilko and the Maple Leafs' subsequent failure to win the Stanley Cup led Toronto fans to believe a curse was upon the team.

What I appreciate about Love & Mercy, the fantastic new film about Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, is its assertion that true musical genius is an ineffable gift -- and potentially a curse -- bestowed upon the rare few.