Turn your mind towards those you have seen or known to have experienced a misfortune.
Traditional healers are often approached by those who have suffered a misfortune, illness, or death in the family, to identify who in the community has been "bewitching" them.
For a poet to lose such a talent would have been a misfortune.
Here, indeed, are all the faces of an artist who felt it his duty never to confine himself to a unique style, for he considered it a misfortune to have a name, one to which he would be ascribed.
I once interviewed a Tory chairman of a hospital board which had encountered a misfortune so severe that Ministers had thrown him to the wolves.
Perhaps when reporting on, and reading about, celebrities who have lost their way, we will remember that these are very human people who, like us, make mistakes, endure misfortune and have a chance — media coverage notwithstanding — to begin anew tomorrow.
It is his fortune or misfortune to have a modest family-built property on prime real estate: a beautiful spot on the waterfront in the lapland wilderness of northwestern Russia.
From tulips to internet stocks, hot sectors have a long history of bringing misfortune to investors.
In many tribal areas of Islam, indeed even outside Islam, down the centuries it was considered a great misfortune to have a strikingly beautiful daughter for the same reason.
"We have a saying in Japanese, 'The misfortunes of others are the taste of honey,' " said Hidehiko Takahashi, the first author on the report.
