Sentence examples for misfortune of war from inspiring English sources

Giles McCoy, a survivor of the Indianapolis, told The Associated Press that Captain McVay "was not guilty of anything except the fortune or misfortune of war".

Call it the misfortunes of war.

In his last great series of etchings, the "small" (1632) and the "large" (1633) The Miseries and Misfortunes of War, he brought his documentary genius to bear on the atrocities of the Thirty Years' War.

In 1633, Jacques Callot published a suite of eighteen etchings titled The Miseries and Misfortunes of War, which depicted the atrocities committed against civilians by French troops during the invasion and occupation of his native Lorraine in the early sixteen-thirties.

Callot's work was often decorative and manneristic; but, at his best, as in the series The Miseries and Misfortunes of War (1632 33), he transcended mere illustration and achieved powerful images of universal significance.

While we sat in a theater giggling at the misfortune of others, a war was (and still is) being waged against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, just across the border in Mali.

While we sat in a cinema giggling at the misfortune of others, a war was (and still is) being waged against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, just across the border in Mali.

Still, some of the process is painfully predictable to experienced observers of war and misfortune in places like Sarajevo and Oklahoma City.

That misfortune tripped War Emblem out of the starting gate.

It has had more than its fair share of misfortunes: civil war, serial military coups, tyrannical military government, spectacular corruption and all the downsides of its black gold economy.

He described the misfortune as a recent yet already iconic example of the horror of war's collateral damage.