Sentence examples for extreme misfortune from inspiring English sources

I thought I'd become desensitized to violence and extreme misfortune, but confronting it nearly every day for the past month has made me realize that, thankfully, I have not.

He added: "On 1 December 2008, while trapped in her flat by the media, she had the extreme misfortune to see on TV Ed Balls at a live press conference announce he was directing that Haringey remove her from her post 'with immediate effect'".

Wawrinka then suffers extreme misfortune as what would have been a forehand winner clips the top of the net, taking the pace off the ball and allowing Nadal to take control of the rally, eventually landing the killer blow with a forehand winner to earn three break points.

Richard Wagner says in a letter to Hans von Bülow, "I want... everyone who can take pleasure in my works, ie, my life and what I do [to know] that what gives them pleasure is my suffering, my extreme misfortune!" Science over the past century in the west has brought many comforts and blessings including longer lifespans.

"Extreme sympathy with misfortunes which we know nothing about, seems altogether absurd and unreasonable," Smith wrote, dismissing "those whining and melancholy moralists, who are perpetually reproaching us with our happiness, while so many of our brethren are in misery".

The tragic hero must be neither a villain nor a virtuous man but a "character between these two extremes,…a man who is not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty [hamartia]." The effect on the audience will be similarly ambiguous.

His extreme popularity is due to his work but also to his life, which mirrored Hungary's misfortunes in the 20th century.

Another mother finds it a bit extreme that Mme. de Chartres would prefer to die than to see her daughter suffer the misfortunes that befall immoral women, but she concurs with the general sentiment and speaks with emotion about the experiences she and her daughter have lived through.

The movie's pessimism is extreme, but it feels rooted in the streets and folklore of Mexico City, where experience melds into legend and individual misfortune is part of life's infinite danger.

Misfortune has been piled on misfortune.

Also: misfortune hunters.