Sentence examples for a misfortune of from inspiring English sources

NEW DELHI — A misfortune of Mumbai is that its politicians have always had a better understanding of the great city than many of its elite writers, who have long described the city by its most vacuous quality — cosmopolitanism.

See that through to its logical conclusion and provincialism becomes an artistic strategy: not a misfortune of birth or temperament, but a wilful rejection, not simply of metropolitan fashion and facility, but of the very idea of a gravitational centre.

A minor misfortune of Ravel's legacy is the relative obscurity of his best piano pieces and the prominence of their candified orchestral versions.

A tricky business here, using the misfortune of a celebrity to plug a product.

It wasn't much of a misfortune.

Friends and family will rally at the beginning of a misfortune.

She considered for a moment the misfortune of losing two young children -- both 19 months old -- in the same family.

Royton is one of a number of little towns that make up Oldham West – the constituency with the misfortune of a by-election to contend with this Thursday.

Young lovers lament the transportational misfortune of a Bronx-Brooklyn romance.

MUMBAI, India — For several months, India has suffered the double misfortune of a slowing economy and high inflation.

CANADA and Mexico share the fortune, or misfortune, of a border with the world's most powerful country, which looks down on both of them.