Suppose a thoroughly decent person has suffered a number of serious misfortunes.
In later years, when Scott was establishing his naval career, the family would suffer serious financial misfortune, but his early childhood years were spent in comfort.
Even his friends call him that, which seems a misfortune serious enough to offset all the silver spoons positioned in his mouth at birth.
In cases of serious sickness or misfortune, a shaman is invited to the house, where he enters a possessive trance in order to visit the otherworld and locate the missing soul of the patient.
Although this rhythm-and-blues legend has weathered one personal disaster after another, including a serious stroke four years ago, misfortunes that might have silenced a less determined performer have only added dimension to her already larger-than-life musical personality.
Although Ms. Brown, the rhythm-and-blues legend, has weathered one personal disaster after another, including a serious stroke four years ago, misfortunes that might have silenced a less determined performer have only added dimension to her already larger-than-life musical personality.
Although the rhythm-and-blues legend has weathered one personal disaster after another, including a serious stroke four years ago, misfortunes that might have silenced a less determined performer have only added dimension to Ms. Brown's already larger-than-life musical personality.
Further misfortune (another serious riding injury and the loss of his claim to a family estate in Scotland) befell him, and he suffered severe depression.
It seemed an undeserved misfortune for a serious Flaubert specialist to be saddled with a blurb describing the creator of Madame Bovary as "a blond giant of a man with green eyes and a resonant actor's voice" and claiming the book as the first "full-fledged, truly modern biography," which of course it is not.
His habitual, frustrated melancholy arose, in part, from the fact that his misfortunes were not serious enough to match his tragic view of life, and he sought relief in intensive historical research, choosing subjects in which divine drama, lacking in his own life, seemed most evident.
