Sentence examples for unfortunate blow from inspiring English sources

But this unfortunate blow inevitably disturbed the dramatic balance Shaw had worked hard to achieve.

"This is an unfortunate blow to the game, and for fans of the series," the company said, "and means that the title will not be advertised or sold at retail in Germany".

London excels in luxurious hotel bars and gastro pubs, but more than once upon entering a local pub on my own, I've felt a bit like that unfortunate stranger blowing into the saloon in a western.

Wind has an unfortunate tendency to blow GM seed into organic fields.

"The state media would take every one of his unfortunate statements and blow it up to an unimaginable degree," she said.

With this visit the orchestra hoped to waft a breeze of publicity toward the festival, but partly because of Mr. Abbado's unfortunate cancellation it blew up a whirlwind.

To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow: the most unfortunate one for the painter as well as for the picture".

Another controversial knockout blow suffered by the unfortunate George North overshadowed Northampton's high-scoring victory over a valiant 14-man Wasps.

The unfortunate woman's head doesn't blow up; it's just that at the awful moment her face suddenly goes blank and corpse-like, and eyes bulge and look off in weird directions.

Speaking of the Boston bombing, it is, he says, "unfortunate" that something has to be blown up in the US "for people to pay attention to Dagestan".

Home Club's unfortunate closure in May 2014 was the ultimate blow to the struggling scene.