Sentence examples for curse from inspiring English sources

"It is a curse".

As the old Chinese curse has it: "May you live in interesting times".

They reveal an overwhelmingly masculine, patriarchal corporate culture, and point to the double burden of work and domestic responsibilities, the "anytime, anywhere" model of management and, a particular curse in the UK, the long hours working culture wired into city law firms.

This is what makes it such a powerful curse.

In the wake of the Paris attacks of January, Kassovitz has come out and said that it is now time to make La Haine 2. This has been an unusual volte-face, given that Kassovitz has until now described La Haine as a "curse" and determinedly rejected suggestions that he should make a follow-up.

The Lancashire side moved one step away from laying their play-off curse to rest after advancing past Chesterfield in the League One play-off semi-finals.

It all begins to sound like a show business obituary until Crerand takes the curse off it: "You know what they say here.

I knock on the table at dinner parties, alone in front of the television, whenever anything is said that could be deemed exceptionally good or bad luck, and hence curse- or jinx-inducing.

French people working in the arts and entertainment – from circus clowns, choreographers, actors and musicians to camera operators and sound staff working at state TV – have a special dole system, designed to protect them in the downtime between jobs and sparing them the curse of out-of-work creatives elsewhere in the world: waiting tables or telesales.

"It's a blessing and it's a curse," he tells Ian Herbert in this interview for the Independent.

Every time you have to plug your phone in to shift some music across, say a little curse to the record labels.