Sentence examples for luck case from inspiring English sources

"All right, who's the hardest luck case in this lot?" The candidates looked me over and edged away--all but one guy, ponytailed and slope-shouldered, his chin tucked down in the collar of a canvas camouflage jacket.

Yet a community college in Miami with no trace of ivy and a policy of accepting just about everyone, even the hard luck cases, has managed to lure a trifecta of commanders in chief to its urban campus.

It was the wonderful and much-missed philosopher Bernard Williams who first drew attention to the phenomenon of "moral luck": cases in which an individual is rightly treated as culpable for a particular action, despite a significant part of it depending on factors outside her control.

A sucker for hard luck cases, or outsiders looking for a second chance, Bing Russell surrounded himself with baseball's colorful cast-offs - the people nobody else wanted.

Another hard-luck case in a miserable economy?

The protagonist of "2182 kHz" is a likable hard-luck case named Henry Seine.

The writer Henry Roth was a tortured, hard-luck case who at the end life enjoyed an unexpected redemption.

There was also her cousin Salvado Rivas, 71, a retired merchant mariner, and Rosario, a local hard-luck case.

He could be heart-rendingly sympathetic as a hard-luck case, but even when he played the most alpha of alpha males, as in "The Master", you got the sense that his poised façade could crack at any moment, unleashing the impotent rage behind it.It was this tension between cleverness and helplessness, elegant confidence and ragged vulnerability that made Mr Hoffman such a riveting screen presence.

The current hard-luck case among chip foundries is Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor.

One company so far notably absent from the matter is South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the industry's perpetual hard-luck case.