Sentence examples for cursed from inspiring English sources

Hollow A cursed tree is the root of rural evil in this British horror.

It is The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game which are the two films expected to predominate at this year's Baftas, the weirdly fortuitous pairing of two distinguished, intelligent, slightly theatrical performances and two brilliant British scientists cursed with the traditional qualities glibly associated with genius: shyness, loneliness, and disability of various sorts.

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Niamh Briggs, the full-back who has been cursed with injury for much of the past year, is a dangerous runner and she landed a 40-metre penalty before the Ireland pack drove forwards from lineout and splintered the English defence, with the scrum-half Larissa Muldoon darting over on the blindside.

"Sunday of Electric Zoo is cursed," one wrote.

As a television spectacle, despite the horrible weather that has cursed the Irish Open, the backdrop seemed well-nigh impossible to beat.

The mere association with Aids can cause children to be ostracised by their peers, as communities refer to the virus as a curse, and those with it, or associated with it, cursed.

Some people now see hospitals as cursed places.

Nobody's hidebound by tradition, and restaurants such as Saison and Benu, both newly-blessed (or cursed) with the full three Michelin stars as of this October, are as likely to chuck out the tablecloths as they are to marry Asian flavours to intensive French techniques.

But Mohammed was in a defiant mood that day and stood his ground when a middle-aged female officer insulted him, cursed his dead father, and tried to seize his cart.

Or conciliate with the regime in hope that one day a child among these people will lead another Syrian revolution, because our revolution is cursed by God.