Sentence examples for face of fortune from inspiring English sources

Obituary A friend warned him [in youth] that London did not like Scottish comedians but he had a way of flying in the face of fortune.

This is a sort of dehumanised version of Burke: "A common soldier, a child, a girl at the door of an inn, have changed the face of fortune, and almost of Nature".

Acting responsibly in the face of fortune will then bring home what real winning is all about.

Public relations agencies and investment relations officers, the public faces of Fortune 500 companies, are among those seeking help from George Harmon, a corporate writing coach and professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

In 2011, the UC Riverside researchers looked at the width-to-height ratio of the faces of Fortune 500 CEOs and found that CEOs with wider faces generally oversaw stronger financial performance at companies.

The writer dissects actress Marilyn Monroe's sexy/vulnerable appeal, and declares that the American public responded to her because of her "desperation, which was implacable in the face of fame, fortune, and the love of celebrated men".

Certainly Germany looks hard, elsewhere, at its poisoned heritage, yet it would be morally fitting to add another emotional component to the commemoration — to link the evocation of a general grief in the face of haphazard fortune with an enduring historical anger at the murderers of the murdered Jews of Europe.

You were the eyes in the face of fortune/ I lost my way and I couldn't find you/ Oh, oh no/ We're not the first ones to be divided/ Won't be the last to be reunited/ No/ Oh no.

The IEA projects "turbulent times" ahead for coal: "Coal has increased its share of the global energy mix from 23% in 2000 to 29% today, but the momentum behind coal's surge is ebbing away and the fuel faces a reversal of fortune".

"The Colonel maintains a vigilant fretfulness in the face of overwhelming good fortune.

She has Oufoula tell us: "I looked in the face of my good fortune and, like Adam, still reached out to pluck the fruit that was forbidden.... Though I had everything -- wealth, power, the respect of my countrymen, a beautiful wife, three loving and successful children -- I risked my Eden for the taste of Marguerite's lips on my mouth".