Riba doesn't do much other than read, ponder books, tool around Dublin with his friends, Google himself and reflect on his career, bemoaning the fact that he never discovered a genius — thanks to "that most bitter misfortune of having to look for authors, those tiresomely essential beings, since without them the whole business would be impossible".
She likes art that makes her morally uncomfortable, and from the laudatory way she quotes Kafka -- "What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune" -- I assume she wishes to induce the same state in her readers.
Job's friends are themselves one of the most striking misfortunes he endures.
The F.B.I. is reeling from misfortune, most of its own making.
She can often be seen or heard playing music to entice people, but seeing Ved-ava generally bodes misfortune, most often drowning.
Breaking the norms associated with gods and spirits in the landscape is directly associated with misfortune, most commonly sickness.
The Drawback of Anxiety and Worry: conjuring up a variety of misfortunes, most of which will never come to pass, creates an unquiet mind that cannot settle peacefully into the present moment, where speculated catastrophes have yet to occur; the mind prone to worrying doesn't appreciate times of joy, as it is forever surveying the imagination for disasters looming in the realm of possibilities.
The misfortune of most Labour Treasury teams has been to spend most of their time in office preaching austerity to resentful colleagues.
He often draws most fully those suffering misfortune, and he does so with sympathy and concern for their inner lives, the conflicts in their intents and desires.
Now, in "The Fragile Middle Class" (Yale University Press, 2000), the same three writers -- Elizabeth Warren, Teresa A. Sullivan and Jay Lawrence Westbrook -- have refined their research and shown that behind most bankruptcy filings lies misfortune, not profligate living.
