Perhaps when reporting on, and reading about, celebrities who have lost their way, we will remember that these are very human people who, like us, make mistakes, endure misfortune and have a chance — media coverage notwithstanding — to begin anew tomorrow.
This six-voice mass has a serene, transparent mood, and it opens with a philosophical quotation from the Book of Job: "If we have received blessings from the hand of the Lord, why then should we not endure misfortune?"One of the most familiar tunes of all time, from the overture to Rossini's "William Tell", turns up in an unfamiliar form on "Rossini Gala" (Opera Rara ORR 211).
By the law of luck, surely they can't endure such misfortune this season?
It's an interesting perspective, but one that's unlikely to have been shared by Eugène Christophe, a French cyclist who could scarcely have endured more misfortune in the Tour de France if he'd careered across the path of a clowder of black cats and under several ladders before smithereening the contents of a hall of mirrors.
I hope that China, having endured many misfortunes, will become a great nation of harmonious inter-ethnic co-existence and develop a splendid civilisation," he wrote.
The children confront villainous adults (a leering homeless man on the bus who warns them of aliens who might steal their faces; suspicious bus station employees; a well-meaning librarian who nonetheless tries to end their quest), endure mishaps and misfortunes, and engineer breathless escapes by boat and bicycle.
It is hope that has allowed humankind to thrive under the most adverse of conditions, hope that has given human beings the vitality essential to endure all manner of misfortunes, all horrors and hurts, all tragedies and tribulations, all cataclysms and catastrophes, and all seemingly cynical conditions.
Walter's protagonists endure a buffet of self-inflicted misfortune, everything from meth addiction to dodgy parenting, often served in a combo platter with a side of unlucky in love.
"I think prosecutors are much more willing to see identifying errors as a positive part of their job, rather than as a misfortune they have to endure," Gross said.
Stringing together a series of interlinked short films — which are less closely scrutinized by Iran's censors than features are — Bani-Etemad sketches a broad array of characters in Tehran and the horrific maladies, misfortunes, and oppressions that they endure.
Ordinarily I love hearing about misfortune but nobody should have to endure a Hawksmoor cancellation.
