Sentence examples for sort of curses from inspiring English sources

Sprinkled throughout Mr. Casson's history of early libraries are fascinating asides on everything from the popularity of certain authors' books ("Homer lead by a wide margin, with the 'Iliad' favored over the 'Odyssey' ") to the sort of curses invoked by different cultures to protect their libraries from the book thief.

Wilkes' art is a poke in the eye, a sort of curse.

"It's been a sort of curse that we're too good in animation," Mr. Lavine said.

Tenors could be forgiven for thinking that some sort of curse hangs over the role of Éléazar.

That decline threatens, all too soon, to visit another sort of curse on a valley famously likened to paradise.

Of course, his first wife, Angie, has put a sort of curse on him, but it may be that it's Shelby who attracts the women and helps subject Ray to this eruption of old lovers.

Newman had always seen his stunning looks as a strange sort of curse, deliberately going out of his way to pick difficult roles, to achieve success as an actor not just as a star.

Newman had always seen his stunning looks as a sort of curse, deliberately going out of his way to pick difficult roles, to achieve as an actor not just as a star.

And that leaves Louis Walsh, the ghost of Christmas stupid, sitting on the end forever comparing people to miniature versions of other people, like some sort of cursed fairytale gnome.

They had no idea then how February would unfold, in frantic fashion, when so many No. 1 teams lost it seemed as if the ranking carried some sort of curse, until Gonzaga, among the most unlikely contenders ever for that ranking, neared the summit.

I take a sort of cursing break when my kids aren't around.