Sentence examples for terrible mishap from inspiring English sources

The tortured circumstances of Shostakovich's life aspire to tragic heights, but the compromise, fear, expedience and accommodation that marked his career with the Soviet government downgrade tragedy to terrible mishap.

I am a longtime practitioner before the federal appeals courts, arguing mostly large, complicated negligence cases in which the appellant is a hotel or a restaurant chain engaged in interstate commerce, and which has been successfully sued by an employee or victim of what is often some terrible mishap.

Terrible mishaps befall a successful businesswoman in Charleston, S.C. 10 8 3 WITHOUT MERCY, by Jack Higgins.

Terrible mishaps befall a successful businesswoman in Charleston, S.C. 4 2 129 THE DA VINCI CODE, by Dan Brown.

Terrible mishaps befall a successful businesswoman in Charleston, S.C. 10 6 2 LIPSTICK JUNGLE, by Candace Bushnell.

There are plenty of Soviet-era cultural artifacts that concern either not being able to leave the airport's transit zone or terrible mishaps occurring there.

That does appear doable as Los Angeles' current run of form has been fueled by terrible defensive mishaps leading to goals.

Before today, people had already clocked the profusion of videos being posted to YouTube of road rage, gunfire, and terrible / random driving mishaps — all taken on dash cams.

A very common observation about falls from the children's statements was that "falls are a sudden mishap that can result in terrible injury".

I felt terrible, not just guilty for not preventing the mishap, but because if there's anything more painful than seeing your own child in pain, it's seeing your grandchild in pain.

The director, Fatih Akin, takes us on a ragged journey from Hamburg to Istanbul, and though there are plenty of mishaps, the movie is ruled by the happy sense that nothing too terrible can happen.