Sentence examples for miserable fortunes from inspiring English sources
Wearing only pants, he then embarks on his misguided and often malevolent attempt to entertain us, an endeavour that cedes to maudlin reflections on his failure at comedy and miserable fortunes in love.
The miserable fortunes of the Scottish international football team depress me no less than if I were following from my hometown of Dumfries.
The scrum-half was trying to get out of trouble when Sean Lamont and Blair made lunges rather than tackles and Reddan suddenly found himself with space to score an accidental try of a type that summed up Scotland's miserable fortune.
Older and rural voters appear to be sticking with the party of the 76-year-old president and former guerrilla leader while younger and urban voters seem more likely to latch on to the new party as their best hope for a change in the country's miserable economic fortunes.
But their lives, even as they strive and succeed in winning fame and fortune, are miserable because of the bad hand women have historically been dealt when it comes to the balance of power.
"It's not like putting a hand on the shoulder and everything happens," said Bierhoff, a close friend of Klinsmann, when asked about the FA's intention to appoint a strong figure to revive England's fortunes after another miserable tournament.
Van Garderen, whose fortunes have improved after a miserable initial two weeks, finished the stage in second, nearly a minute back.
After a fruitful campaign last year, this goal poacher is enduring a miserable season in the capital as Sporting's fortunes plummet.
Then Brooks did all he could to revive her fortunes in The Happy Ending (1969), about a miserable wife whose dreams of marriage, based on the movie Father of the Bride, have turned to disillusion.
His father was a failed shopkeeper, his mother a domestic servant and he spent a miserable year as a draper's assistant in Southsea before his fortunes were changed by his success as a writer.
We have no right to hand over a planet Earth that has less worth or in a more miserable condition than the planet we ourselves have had the good fortune to live on.
