Sentence examples for evil fortune from inspiring English sources
Byron, for example, hardens Dante's "doloroso passo" to "evil fortune": Dante's "desio" becomes the more emphatic "strong ecstacies" (the adjective "strong" occurs twice in a fairly short space of time).
She plays the manipulative seductress Hélène Kuragin in the BBC 1 adaptation of Tolstoy's Russian epic and is also to be seen on the same channel as the guileless Amelia Havisham, victim of an evil fortune hunter, in screenwriter Tony Jordan's episodic Victorian series.
Translated this means: "We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune".
It condemned Buchanan's work as an invention, and "emphasized Mary's evil fortunes rather than her evil character".
You're probably guessing that because it involves "do no evil" Google, Fortune magazine's "Best Company to Work For" the past two years, this is a heart-warming tale of a good company reversing a dumb decision.
"An evil lot, an evil lot.
Where conventional representations treated Fortuna as a mostly benign, if fickle, goddess, who is the source of human goods as well as evils, Machiavelli's fortune is a malevolent and uncompromising fount of human misery, affliction, and disaster.
Not because they're evil, but because their fortune is at stake.
Red is the shade of choice for those celebrating the New Year, as it's believed to ward off evil spirits and bad fortune.
def: an object held to act as a charm, avert evil and bring good fortune.
