Sentence examples for deep misfortune from inspiring English sources

It was while returning from helping out at the Tower of London on that day that 25-year-old Rigby had the deep misfortune to encounter Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo, two Islamic converts who had set out determined murder a soldier.

I know many people who have dodged innumerable slings and arrows of outrageous medical misfortune to live lives of deep meaning and happiness that have enriched all around them.

A career backup, Ogletree grew up a Knicks fan but wore a Brooklyn Nets cap in the locker room, where he said that his brother's misfortune made him "look in the mirror and dig deep and find out what I want to be".

It is my generation's misfortune to have been brought up to hold objects made of paper in deep reverence, only to see society discard them, one by one.

And the terrible misfortunes the Haitian people have endured have added to this logic a deep sense of moral obligation.

But Eels' latest album, Wonderful, Glorious, suggests those good-time gaps are getting longer as E gets deeper into a career that has seen rock'n'roll prove a salve for personal misfortune.

What is consistent is the dark, fatalistic humor and bone-deep irony Petrushevskaya's characters employ as protection against the biting cold of loneliness and misfortune that seems their birthright.

Well, God invented language, say Jane Wagner and Lily Tomlin, because of our deep need to complain, and Samuel Johnson once observed that "if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him".

Misfortune has been piled on misfortune.

Also: misfortune hunters.

People suffered misfortune".