Sentence examples for misfortune that is from inspiring English sources

And I've talked about the way that malaria is a disease that thrives on human misfortune, and there is no misfortune that is better for malaria than war.

Corporate bloodletting is part of the everyday life of many Americans right now, and people in the journalism business represent a microscopic part of both G.D.P. and a larger misfortune that is falling on all American workers.

In the scene that sets the tone of the show, just before the guests arrive, Libby, the hostess, suffers a misfortune that is as hilarious as it is humiliating, and watching her cope with it during the party makes you giggle with heartbreak.

In the event that signals the tone of the show, just before the guests arrive, Libby, our hostess, suffers a misfortune that is as hilarious as it is humiliating, and watching her cope with it during the party makes you giggle with heartbreak.

We mentioned comeuppance which describes a person's misfortune that is considered to be deserved punishment for something bad that they've done.

Suppose we distinguish roughly between misfortune that is imposed on people by social action and social arrangements and misfortune that just falls on people without being imposed by anyone.

"Oh my God, don't tell me," he'd say to some preposterous misfortune that was only half true, and then laugh about it.

It was the type of bullets-don't-have-names misfortune that was, and remains, unshakably common in many black neighborhoods across the country.

It's a series of misfortunes that, were Jungr to have lived in a Sicilian village, might have led locals to shun her as one cursed with the fatal malocchio.

He was tormented by the thought that he'd betrayed his race, and that all the misfortunes that were visited on him were some kind of punishment from Jehovah.

He criticised the violent act whereby he became king and prophesied the misfortunes that were shortly to fall on the kingdom, but Dunstan's influence at court was ended.