The phrase "a misfortune that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a statement or explanation about an unfortunate event or situation.
Example: "It is a misfortune that we lost the funding for the project just as we were about to begin."
Alternatives: "an unfortunate circumstance that" or "a regrettable situation that".
It is a misfortune that happens too often to those people who live a life crammed with many separate talents.
The tape holds the glass in place should it happen to break in transit, a misfortune that can get an installation off on the wrong foot.
In the usual media parlance, a tragedy is simply a misfortune that befalls a person (an accident, a fatal disease) or a polity (a natural disaster) and that is outside their control.
The girl, as Owsley reconstructed her, is a fair Shakespearean beauty with ash-blonde hair and good bone structure, who probably arrived in Jamestown in the summer of 1609, part of a resupply convoy whose flagship crashed on Bermuda, a misfortune that inspired "The Tempest".
In the scene that sets the tone of the show, just before the guests arrive, Libby, the hostess, suffers a misfortune that is as hilarious as it is humiliating, and watching her cope with it during the party makes you giggle with heartbreak.
In the event that signals the tone of the show, just before the guests arrive, Libby, our hostess, suffers a misfortune that is as hilarious as it is humiliating, and watching her cope with it during the party makes you giggle with heartbreak.
Smoltz survived that embarrassment, as he will any misfortune that visits him this week.
Corporate bloodletting is part of the everyday life of many Americans right now, and people in the journalism business represent a microscopic part of both G.D.P. and a larger misfortune that is falling on all American workers.
It must be a mistake or misfortune that has left me bereft of what has become an exterior brain for most.
In dueling monologues Francis and Loretta describe a chain of misfortune that can be traced to Loretta's late arrival one fateful morning.
We mentioned comeuppance which describes a person's misfortune that is considered to be deserved punishment for something bad that they've done.
