Sentence examples for of this misfortune from inspiring English sources

How all of this misfortune and all of these misdeeds do and don't relate to one another isn't clear.

Another consequence of this misfortune was that the Duke of York, who was responsible for the accident, secured for Foote a life patent, which permitted him to continue without subterfuge his performances at the Haymarket Theatre.

A basic element of this misfortune is the seminal absence of intellectual rigour in the political thought of our founding fathers – a tendency to pious materialistic woolliness and self-centred pedestrianism".

They seem to have implied that if it weren't for him, none of this misfortune would have befallen the family; Eugene O'Neill's inconsiderate decision to be born had destroyed his mother.

He says the confirmation there would be no election was a disaster: "It emerged in a disorganised, haphazard way, on a Saturday afternoon, accompanied by briefings from the bowels of No 10, heaping blame on the supposed author of this misfortune, Douglas Alexander.

Then-Premier Frank Hsieh stated that the relative lack of damage "was some good fortune in the midst of this misfortune".

As a result of the fire, the proportion of the collection derived from the Tradescants was larger than originally anticipated and in the opinion of Professor Michael Hunter this misfortune has contributed to criticisms that Ashmole took an unfair share of the credit in assembling the collection at the expense of the Tradescants.

It is impossible to refrain from tears while speaking of this great misfortune".

Perhaps it all began because of this: "Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother".

As one of the many living in the New York City Diaspora, I worry of what will become of this country where misfortune appears to be the rule of law.

As underdogs go, there were literally none more under – they were still bottom of Fifa's rankings when the 2009 tsunami waterlogged their pitch – and this deluge of misfortune blows Mike Brett and Steve Jamison's buoying documentary off the predicted trajectory: for much of it, you can't see this lot scoring, never mind winning.