Sentence examples for unfortunate task from inspiring English sources

(To Ms. Silverstone falls the unfortunate task of getting drunk and shaking a tail feather).

We turned, as always, to Filippo, our blues musician neighbour who has the unfortunate task of translating Italy for us.

Tom Wheeler, the new chairman of the F.C.C., now has the unfortunate task of dealing with strategic errors made by his predecessor.

Not only does he have the unfortunate task of competing against the world's memory, he also has to fend off players he used to dominate.

Slouched next to Campbell was a distressed-looking man with a receding hairline called Andrew Slavitt, who had the unfortunate task of representing Optum/QSSI.

Ms. Tilly has also been given the unfortunate task of rising buck-naked from a bathtub, simply to give a sophomoric twist to an observation about Crystal's hair color.

The personnel consists of his unfortunate family, whose assigned task it is to use all that recreational equipment, even if it kills them.

"It is unfortunate that the important task of overhauling the tax code will erode health coverage for many".

Given that the Booker is at heart a speed-reading contest for judges – 100-odd novels to read in a couple of months – it is not surprising that those poor unfortunates faced with the task favour books that can be tackled in a few swift hours.

The unfortunate narrators had the impossible task of telling the stories in character as though they were remembering events of long ago, then re-enacting those events.

In our view, this is an unfortunate setback due to inappropriate task design and does not refute the core idea of cognitive enhancement.