Sentence examples for the cursed thing from inspiring English sources
In my case it was the Grankulla futon/sofabed, and now that the cursed thing is finally assembled I feel the need to write about it.
Psychologists, Adam writes, call this sort of thing the "white-bear effect", after the initiation rite the young Tolstoy imposed for membership of his secret society – all you had to do was stand in the corner and not think about a white bear, and "the cursed thing comes to mind every minute," as Dostoevsky wrote in Winter Notes on Summer Impressions.
Wegner was fascinated by a quote from the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute". Wegner decided to test this quote's assumption with a study.
A bomb threat takes that "curse" thing up a whole level.
If they have rules and regulations for your behavior, like the no cursing thing, this is also abusive.
Drinking and cursing — things she often did to excess — get her fired from a copy editing job in the film's opening scene, and her life is in general teetering toward ruin.
And he stresses the importance of the "Shrum Curse" (the thing that afflicts losing candidates who employ Mr. Shrum) and the "Shrum Primary" (in which competing candidates fight for the privilege of having Mr. Shrum's services) for the simple reason that he enjoys the notion of a Shrum Anything.
Entering Monday, everyone watching the NFL had cursed the same things over three weeks the befuddled lulls and slack chaos and the fuck-ups that will get the players, the league's truest commodity and previous locked-out labor group, hurt sooner than later though it seems like all of football is recoiling.
It's a human curse thing that comes with being a parent.
Woe to the country cursed by resources — the last thing Afghans need is more to fight over.
And the curse continued: "Funny thing (or unfunny if you're Swedish) is that 13 years later the current saviour of Arsenal, Kim Källström, missed a penalty in a World Cup qualifier against Denmark at home.
