Sentence examples for sheer misfortune from inspiring English sources

A moment really of sheer misfortune can throw everyone into a realm of despair that you didn't know was possible.

Such is the psychology of routed political parties, which are apt to attribute their troubles to the machinations of their adversaries rather than to their own failures or sheer misfortune, and that's a coping mechanism that cuts across all segments of society.

It depends on regarding social housing purely as a safety net, a last resort for people who have failed to show enough character to amass the wealth to buy their own home, an escape for those unlucky few who, through personal catastrophe or sheer misfortune, find themselves homeless.

Ryder has always been choosy about her work, but she has also missed out on a number of high-profiles roles through sheer misfortune, falling ill on the set of Godfather III to be replaced by the director's daughter, Sofia Coppola, and reportedly losing the lead role in Shakespeare in Love to her former room-mate, Gwyneth Paltrow.

Is Florida the most dangerous places in the country for children with disabilities, behavioral disorders or the sheer misfortune to be born into abusive families?

Yep, it's that time again: time to find out how miserable your life is going to be just via the sheer misfortune of being under 30.

The protagonist, Marie, suffers from a litany of misfortunes, whose sheer number may at first seem wearying: self-harm, compulsive promiscuity, drug abuse, squalid poverty, teen pregnancy.

You need a plan, a willingness to cope with setbacks, the brains to figure out how to recover when things go awry, and the stomach to deal with misfortune, incompetence and, sometimes, sheer fraud.

It is also extremely compelling due to the sheer amount of people hoping to see the misfortune of others.

Sheer fear, sheer terror.

Misfortune has been piled on misfortune.