Sentence examples similar to examples of misfortune from inspiring English sources

4. Plays that treat sad divas (Judy Garland, Maria Callas) less as specific examples of showbiz misfortune than as tragic emblems of suffering humanity.

(Capp often counseled disabled war veterans, citing himself as an example of surmounted misfortunes).

This is an example of what might be called 'the comedy of misfortune', a form of nervous schadenfreude in which characters travail hopelessly before arriving at a new understanding of life.

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.

The repetitions of "misfortune" and "misfortune," "July" and "July," recall the interlocking syntax of Virgil's Latin and of Milton's approximation of it.

It's been a litany of misfortune and near misses.

Little Sunshine, or, The Child of Misfortune.