Sentence examples for parallel misfortune from inspiring English sources
John Barton in 1973 had the brilliant idea of getting Ian Richardson and Richard Pasco to alternate as Richard and Bolingbroke: in place of the usual conflict between a winsome dandy and a burly pragmatist, one suddenly got a study of parallel misfortune.
The story parallels Micheaux's own romantic misfortune — his undeclared love for a white woman — but the filmmaker builds the underlying theme of racial conflict into a political conflagration that reflects the monstrous violence of the day.
Neither Hanoi nor Saigon deserved to win, he asserts, and it was the misfortune of innocent people on both sides of the 17th parallel to "fall into the hands of cruel and incompetent governments". Luckily for them, Hastings insists, after losing the war militarily, the Americans won the peace economically and culturally.
Misfortune has been piled on misfortune.
Also: misfortune hunters.
People suffered misfortune".
That is their misfortune.
That is India's misfortune.
O, what terrible misfortune.
MISFORTUNE, by Wesley Stace.
