Sentence examples for a misfortune in from inspiring English sources

The only residual characteristic was the 4-foot 8.5-inch gauge, which was often thought to be a misfortune in being too narrow.

The fact that the U.S. has proved a highly efficient crucible for melding different peoples into a human sum greater than its constituent parts is seen as a misfortune in Europe because it produces a cultural stew that lacks purity of any kind and is therefore at the mercy of commercial forces.

It is a misfortune in any case that this trial should be departed from, yet in some cases it is necessary.

This is not an objective record of a misfortune but, in its hypnotic intensity, a portrait of the artist both martyred and liberated by madness.

Her epigraph -- taken from Maeterlinck's play "Pelleas et Melisande" -- forewarns us that we're in for something a little more complicated than crusading social fiction: "I have been watching you; you were there, unconcerned perhaps, but with the strange distraught air of someone forever expecting a great misfortune, in sunlight, in a beautiful garden".

Wu grew up the daughter of two cosmopolitan, enlightened educators at a time when that was a great misfortune in China.

However hardcore Eno fans, who have followed his 40 year career as a cultural innovator, may have to suffer a medical misfortune in order to hear his latest work.

Keller said that the most frustrating aspect of his benching is that, "You do all the groundwork for the five, six, seven years previous, and a little misfortune in the last few months, and you find yourself being a spectator".

To be dismissed for fewer than 200 runs once or twice might be a misfortune; five times in a row looks like carelessness, if not downright ineptitude.

Traditional healers are often approached by those who have suffered a misfortune, illness, or death in the family, to identify who in the community has been "bewitching" them.

There is a degree of misfortune in Levein's fate coming to a head now.