Sentence examples for misfortunate from inspiring English sources

People are enjoying watching the billionaires, gloating on the misfortune of the deserving misfortunate.

They said at the shelter that he was a canine of misfortunate past.

Krakauer took a poor misfortunate prone to paranoia, someone who left a note talking about his desire to kill the "false being within," someone who managed to starve to death in a deserted bus not far off the George Parks Highway, and made the guy into a celebrity.

But more than this, never have I read something that so exquisitely and lucidly captures the dazed, eerie strangeness of our misfortunate times.

Deans has faced considerable adversity with injuries blighting campaigns and combinations, but ultimately managed to use those seemingly never ending series of misfortunate events to build enviable player depth in several positions.

The likelihood is this is a horrible one-off, a price paid by an occasional misfortunate being for the turbulent despair that lurks in the souls of a very few and then (in even fewer) boils over.

She is a Newtown local, here almost every day, and today has the fortune – or misfortunate – to find herself smack bang in the middle of a music video set.

It quickly became clear to me that I would have to make the transition from being a misfortunate tourist to being a Chicagoan, and my Sarajevan urban instincts compelled me to seek the ways in which I would attach myself to the city and make it my adopted hometown.

His father-in-law was recounting the oft-told tale of how, 25 years before, he called a secret meeting of Northern Ireland's leaders on the Isle of Man for the purpose of knocking their heads together and making them see sense about the future of their most misfortunate statelet.

Across the border two Belgian films about family life stood out: Felix Van Groeningen's visually boisterous De helaasheid der dingen (The Misfortunates) and Un Ange à la mer (Angel at Sea), a striking feature debut by director Frédéric Dumont, about a family struggling to cope with a suicidal father.

"The Misfortunates," a Belgian coming-of-age turned coming-of-reason story about a floundering 13-year-old turned struggling man, initially comes across as aggressively unpleasant as his crude, boozing father and uncles.