At Curbed, the dramatis personae aren't adulterous actors and politicians but buildings, whose fortunes and misfortunes are chronicled in order to help the discerning buyer and to provide schadenfreude to the salivating reader.
The famous autobiographies of late antiquity and the Middle Ages — St. Augustine's "Confessions" and Abelard's "History of My Misfortunes" — bared all in order to help other sinners save their souls; unlike Montaigne's "Essais," they were professedly intended for sober religious purposes.
I think comedians generally lie less than you'd think, when it comes to making up stories, but we do play fast-and-loose with time structures, distilling 10 years of misfortune into a single story in order to make it sound fresh and topical.
Plotinus, insisting that the best life is one that is in fact blessed owing precisely to its immunity to misfortune, alters the meaning of 'self-sufficient' in order to identify it with the interior life of the excellent person.
Recently, I had the misfortune of chasing my cat who was also chasing a bunny in order to harm it.
The effort to recruit for the unit was nearly compromised by an army-wide order requesting the names of English-speaking personnel and any captured Allied vehicles; although Skorzeny originally attempted to cancel the operation, he later turned the misfortune around by allowing rumors of the unit to circulate freely in order to hide the truth.
Traditions On the last Wednesday of the old year, the night of Chahar Shanbe Suri is celebrated in order to symbolically get rid of all the misfortunes and bad luck of the past year.
In cases of serious sickness or misfortune, a shaman is invited to the house, where he enters a possessive trance in order to visit the otherworld and locate the missing soul of the patient.
Perhaps he was upset by his romantic misfortunes: his fumbling of his love for Strunsky, and the necessity of going through a divorce in order to secure Charmian.
A group of Mamaroneck seventh-graders has devised a "Wheel of Misfortune" game in which the spinners "win" a list of symptoms of a neglected disease like sleeping sickness or malaria in order to raise money for its victims.
