From its lurid, flash-forward introduction, assuming the perspective of Carpenter's mother Agnes as she finds her collapsed daughter near death in her bedroom, Haynes's film playfully but ruefully mocks the vapid, then-prevalent TV movies that packaged real-life misfortune for prim-time entertainment.
VS Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Six-fingered and born in the wrong way, Mohun Biswas is destined, according to village lore, for a life of misfortune.
Will le Fleming's gloriously unsentimental debut follows Holly's attempts to right her life as misfortune flexes its muscles around her. First her extended family turn up, and then slaughtermen, following the trail of the 2001 foot-and-mouth epidemic.
He later wrote, "She taught me to find so much pleasure in life that misfortune could not rob me of the joy of living".
I don't consider myself a victim of anything or anyone, and I don't blame society for any of my life's misfortune, though I'm sure there are many who do.
Then I have known others who, if there are such things as "fairness" and "fortune", seem to have had an unfair share of life's misfortunes.
Along with pledging to improve social mobility among those from poorer backgrounds, they say that millions of middle-income parents are also not rich enough to insulate their children against life's misfortunes.
Re "On the Verge of 'Vital Exhaustion'?" (Mind, June 1): Having treated "nervous breakdowns" and "near nervous breakdowns" for 30 years, it is clear to me that all of us are vulnerable to collapsing under the heavy weight of life's misfortunes, especially given the inevitable weak points in our personality infrastructures.
Unlike the 1994 Contract with America, which in substance was not nearly as ideological as people thought, and unlike Bush's compassionate conservatism, which was sold as a rejection of anti-government philosophy, the Roadmap was a comprehensive plan to reduce the welfare state and radically curtail the government's role in protecting citizens from life's misfortunes.
After mining the traumas of an abusive father ("The Great Santini"), an abusive college ("The Lords of Discipline"), a mucked-up family ("The Prince of Tides") and various other of his life's misfortunes, Conroy seems to have flipped through that thick and valuable file of his marked "Bad Things That Have Happened To Me" and been reminded: I played college hoops on a team that stank.
Instrumental theories regard tort's essential features as explicable in terms of an overarching purpose, typically, the remediation of some social problem, such as the problem of allocating the costs of life's misfortunes.
