Instead, 'each of us wants to be the kind of person [May's italics] who can suffer at certain misfortunes.
They also worry about certain misfortunes that tend to befall mostly men, but those usually occur due to chance, biology, or the decisions of other men.
Throughout his life, Eichmann deceived people about his early "misfortunes" by hiding behind certain financial misfortunes of his father's, which cast no discredit on him.
That theme is one that is deeply personal for King, who told Playboy, in 1983, that he felt confident that things were going too well, that he was certain to meet serious misfortune: "There's no way that some disaster or illness isn't already lurking in wait for me just down the road," he said.
It was the most flagrantly typical moment at the European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain, on Sunday, a race that was more interesting for the misfortunes of certain drivers than for the prowess of the leaders.
The Hearts defender's misfortune carried a certain irony, in that Celtic should require an opponent to provide them with the opening goal in a domestic match for the first time this season.
"Wedlock", her previous book, followed the misfortunes of a certain countess at the hands of her abusive husband, who gets his comeuppance to the cheers of every reader.
For I am certain persuaded that all our misfortunes arise from no other original cause than that general disregard among us to the public welfare.
But the Calloways are restless types who have the misfortune of living on a certain "skinny island" where affluent professionals like them feel comparatively poor.
Aleppo was once home to Syria's best cancer hospital; now anyone there with the misfortune to contract a chronic illness is almost certain to die.
