Sentence examples for that was cursed from inspiring English sources

Yet I still wonder if Iraq is one of those "specific countries" that was cursed by its resources.

In his letter to President Van Buren, Emerson calls this "a crime that really deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country; for how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these poor Indians our Government, or the land that was cursed by their parting and dying imprecations our country, any more?" (A, 3).

At the moment they're controlled by MGM, which featured the Selznick Hitchcocks as part of an eight-disc set in 2008 that was cursed by production problems (some of the discs simply wouldn't play), and now has issued three of the four in Blu-ray, leaving out the perennial stepchild that is the 1947 "Paradine Case".

Verbinski disliked the new title because it is the Aztec gold rather than the ship that is cursed, so he requested the title to be unreadable on the poster.

That's cursing the darkness, as opposed to lighting a candle.

Likewise, words that are curse words today were once far less inflammatory.

They must not, that is, curse, scream at or threaten the referee.

Her problem was that she was cursed with a bit too much history.

He was emerging from a horrific decade in which he said he felt that he was cursed.

It was not only in timing that he was cursed: there was his very special status.

The media began to report that it was cursed.