Sentence examples for a misfortune to from inspiring English sources

TO LOSE one decade may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.

"To lose them was a misfortune, to possess them no happiness," Rousseau wrote.

For the first, she borrowed from Kierkegaard: "What a misfortune to be a woman!

To have one troubled child is a misfortune: to have four looks like dramatic excess.

TO LOSE one prime minister may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two in short order looks like carelessness.

To lose one's conductor through illness is a misfortune; to lose the soloist as well suggests they must be married.

In many tribal areas of Islam, indeed even outside Islam, down the centuries it was considered a great misfortune to have a strikingly beautiful daughter for the same reason.

It is a great misfortune to be born in the Peerage, life is too pleasant for him.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said the home secretary had got "some explaining to do" following Mrs Woolf's resignation, saying: "To lose one chair is a misfortune, but to lose two is total carelessness".

Someone should probably remind Lerner, a sophisticated fellow by all accounts, of the words Oscar Wilde gave to Lady Bracknell, that to lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, but to lose both looks like carelessness.

JS Loser... Roma To concede one goal in the last six minutes may be regarded as a misfortune but to lose two is just carelessness, which could come back to haunt Roma.