Sentence examples for forms of misfortune from inspiring English sources

Indigenous African categories of misfortune may not consider mental illness a separate, or distinct, category from other 'nonmedical' forms of misfortune, such as marital problems, failure to prosper or poor performance at school [ 11].

She is "the good fortune that comes to us in the form of misfortune".

The major pressure is the belief that illness is a form of misfortune.

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.

As we will see in discussing the capabilities approach, though, this view on the locus of misfortune can be accommodated by some forms of luck egalitarianism.

The tourist attitude is a form of rubbernecking at misfortune, of the type that has commonly become unacceptable in decent society.

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 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.