Sentence examples for from the fortunate from inspiring English sources

Commuters confronting the trivially tragic — but tragic nonetheless — instant when the subway doors close too quickly, severing them from the fortunate ones who made it inside.

"It only asks a little bit more from the fortunate few who did well during the last upturn and are still doing well today," he said.

As ever, taking from the fortunate, in order to ease the burden on the less fortunate, is harder than it looks.

(Derek begins "Easter," from "The Fortunate Traveller," with the reassuring words of a loving Papa: "Anna, my daughter, / you have a black dog / that noses your heel, / selfless as a shadow; / here is a fable / about a black dog").

We should remember, though, that we are hearing from the fortunate ones.

Judging from the fortunate lack of sandaled feet visible on the other side of the door, I may be all alone in my love of the sink and scorn for the sea.

In the Book Review, Laura Miller called this novel "endlessly beguiling": "For Wright, America, past and present, is Wonderland, a place of marvels and horrors from which not even the fortunate escape with their heads".

Pakistani society also suffers from the great divide between the fortunate who can be brazen and loud, tweeting about online petitions from the safety of relatively cocooned environs, and those who grow up like Malala, even without coming under attack from militant terrorism.

Most of the elite have isolated themselves from the less fortunate.

They would lose any positive interaction with fellow students (and super-achievers would become completely disconnected from the less fortunate).

Most of the players also come from the less fortunate areas and in the Philippines it's the same context".