Sentence examples for mischance from inspiring English sources

The sport is littered with riders being robbed of their chance for glory by mechanical mischance – just think back to some of the most famous bike tosses in cycling history: Bradley Wiggins dumping his Pinarello in the 2013 Giro del Trentino or Bjarne Riis throwing thousands of pounds worth of time-trial bike into a ditch at Disneyland, Paris during the 1997 Tour de France.

Embassies caution their citizens to avoid likely trouble spots.With a mix of error and mischance, Mr Morsi has managed to anger every tier of Egypt's class-ridden society.

The explanations provided in the various religions divide into two kinds: those that attribute the cause to some primordial mischance and those that hold humanity itself to be responsible.

In many mythologies death is represented as resulting from some primordial mischance.

Myths of this kind usually involve the shattering of the ideal state by some mischance, with wickedness, disease, and death entering into the world as the result.

In reality Waugh set out freely after a night in Christie's company; but reality was always too meagre for the writer's liking, and he made it the business of his fiction to think along paths not taken — to wonder just how infernally, with a little help from mischance and a touch of sunstruck malice, life might have turned out.

When everybody is working for everybody, everybody is injured by the mischances of everybody.

After reminding his parishioners that "there are dangers by land and sea, wrecks, railway accidents, lightning, mischances with machinery, fires, falls; there are murders," Hopkins goes on to evoke Hell as "the brimstone, the dregs and bilge-water of that pit," where the sinner's lusts become "like vomit and like dung".

The odd echo of his own style in "mischances with machinery, fires, falls" only drives home the disparity between what Hopkins felt about the world and what he believed about it.

Where Shakespeare's play is all about the flimsy evidence of the senses and the fallible human appetite, Dufresne's novel sticks to the chances and mischances of "Who do I sleep with tonight?" And every night.

Musical performance is, as so often in this composer's work, a dicey business, subject to catastrophes and mischances that turn out to be, in a different way, touching and even triumphant.