Sentence examples for element of misfortune from inspiring English sources

There was actually an element of misfortune about the first goal on 16 minutes.

This element of misfortune, though, was more than offset by glaring deficiencies at the opposite end.

He made no protest about the decision and there was a slight jump into the challenge, but there was perhaps an element of misfortune as his studs skidded over the ball and into the base of Digne's knee.

A basic element of this misfortune is the seminal absence of intellectual rigour in the political thought of our founding fathers – a tendency to pious materialistic woolliness and self-centred pedestrianism".

Because Kashmiris have become accustomed to the violence inflicted on them – as they are to the indifference of the world – when pellets were first sprayed at protesters in the heated summer of 2010, most people processed this as nothing more than a new misfortune; just another element of the war in Kashmir.

It took misfortune and, perhaps, an element of misjudgement, for United's good work to be undone.

Joseph Brodsky and the fortunes of misfortune.

There is some fortune in Haiti's history of misfortune.

Mentions de Vicenzo's sportsmanship in his hour of misfortune.

This is Beslan.The usual clichés of misfortune are too feeble.

The ring was bought to counter a run of misfortune.