Sentence examples similar to handling misfortune from inspiring English sources

And this bighearted memoir makes a winning argument that the only way to handle misfortune, as writer Cormac McCarthy is fond of noting, is to treat it as the peculiar and propelling gift it can be.

If he dealt with his final illness the way he handled previous misfortunes, I suspect he saw it as an opportunity for growth.

And they manage misfortune.

McDonald's smooth handling of its serial misfortunes at the top certainly seems to prove the point.

Men are masters at handling most of life's misfortunes, but loss is the one thing I've noticed not even they can brush off, making the times they break even more significant.

While 33,333 fans were sighing over Piazza's misfortune, Wilson burst out of the dugout like Jason Kidd handling a three-on-one break.

On the evidence here, Buckley finds the devious far more appealing than the direct, but he's got the misfortune-into-gain part ­utterly handled.

More than a half-billion years on Earth, they say, has provided the box jelly and its cousins with tools to handle the harshest environments and to exploit the misfortunes of other species that can't.

The Raiders lose a playoff game to the Patriots because the refs deem Brady's sack-and-fumble an incomplete pass — a moment that embodies not only the Raiders' knack for misfortune but also their soul-crushing inability to handle it when it comes.

In dashing out and snatching the ball off Tasic's feet on the fringe of the penalty area, Gregg had the misfortune to roll forward still holding the ball, and so handle it outside the area.

The misfortune not only affects us as we teeter-totter back and forth as victims of the never to be handled socio-economic struggle between the extremist far right and intelligent humanitarian adults.