Sentence examples for misbegotten past from inspiring English sources

Martha resembles an older Claire Danes — strong bones, a lithe body — but there's something wrong with her face; she looks as if she were continually squinting through the glass of her dissatisfied present into a misbegotten past or a murky future.

When "The Birth of a Nation" opened, Griffith seemed at once a star of the new age and a man trapped in the lore of a misbegotten past.

They aren't simply new and innovative ways to chip away against the monolith of Wrong in the world, grinding down the misbegotten troubles of yesteryear indefinitely into the past.

If we have learnt anything from the misbegotten wars of the past 13 years, that is a lesson worth remembering.

If you love original Broadway-style songs pasted into hideously misbegotten plotlines, you've got "Smash".

Suffering from the debilitating effects of Parkinson's disease and submerged in gothic-tinged memories of his family's sorrowful past, O'Neill wrote "A Moon for the Misbegotten" two years after completing his masterwork about family drama, "Long Day's Journey Into Night".

They are the right ones to discuss the cruel joke of the past 85 years and the Sisyphean struggle of their misbegotten Pilgrims.

What Lyon, like many before her, fails to see is that the idea of "Nature," as she describes it, perpetuates the misbegotten project of amateur anthropologists like Lady Raglan, who lusted after a deeper past than could ever be available to them.

May 18-June 10: "Moon for the Misbegotten".

Again, an echo of the misbegotten Iraq.

Two of the most widely applauded Broadway productions of the past couple of years originated at the Goodman Theater here: Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," starring Brian Dennehy, and Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten," starring Cherry Jones and Gabriel Byrne.