Sentence examples similar to acute misfortune from inspiring English sources

Seven days holed up in the Musket seems a grim sentence, yet I recall the fangs of the banshee tempest & the mariners lost o'erboard & my present misfortune feels less acute.

He dealt in many commodities, traveled widely at home and abroad, and became an acute and intelligent economic theorist, in many respects ahead of his time; but misfortune, in one form or another, dogged him continually.

After months of no change, Mrs. Gaines sent a letter detailing family misfortunes that imperiled their finances, including that her husband had been told he had acute kidney failure.

Misfortune has been piled on misfortune.

Also: misfortune hunters.

People suffered misfortune".

This is its misfortune.

That is India's misfortune.

That is their misfortune.

O, what terrible misfortune.

MISFORTUNE, by Wesley Stace.