Sentence examples for unfortunate kind from inspiring English sources

Inevitably, he was seized as a prisoner of war ("the least unfortunate kind of prisoner to be"), and just as inevitably, he managed to escape (having failed to argue for his release as a foreign correspondent).

"That's really an unfortunate kind of situation".

Flowers by Marisa CompeTollo.

In an interview this week, the chairman of the commission, Thomas A. Klonick, criticized as "unfortunate and kind of distressing" the way the Manhattan lawyers' group, the New York County Lawyers Associationn, had reached its conclusions that the system was unfair to judges.

The umpires understood my frustration but there's nothing we can do...It was unfortunate and kind of flukey but that's how it goes".

That's understandable, but it's also unfortunate, the kind of misreading (hagiography?) that has obscured Kerouac's intentions, and achievement, for more than 50 years.

"It's kind of unfortunate, but I feel there's a sort of unfortunate sort of … we don't do romance, we don't cover that," he said.

Eli looks like an Italian runway model who's been sleeping behind a septic tank, while Sam is just "Poor Sam" – meek, unfortunate and kind-hearted, which is why Sam's idea to call Border Control and have Olena arrested and deported came as such a shock.

Correlatively, it has been suggested that temporal anaphors like 'then' and modal anaphors like 'that' (in 'that would have been unfortunate') are kinds of descriptions.

"We had a lot of unfortunate things that kind of happened to us in the last week," Thomas said.

Mrs. Clinton said, "I think everyone would agree that it was unfortunate that that kind of activity had to take place".