Sentence examples for was a misfortune from inspiring English sources

It was a misfortune, not a crime.

"To lose them was a misfortune, to possess them no happiness," Rousseau wrote.

Lady Bracknell would have agreed that to lose two potential successors at Renault in the past two years was a misfortune, but to lose another at Nissan looks like carelessness.

Since the French seldom give ideas serious consideration unless they are well expressed, however, it was a misfortune that most political speculation after the Napoleonic age was written by gifted, often brilliant, conservatives, such as Joseph de Maistre, Auguste Comte, Frédéric Le Play, Renan, Taine, and Charles Maurras.

My little bald skull so astounded him that he almost departed from this life the moment I entered it and, indeed, it was a misfortune and harmful thing for him that he did not, because after that night he never had anything but misery and was destroyed and rent by the world and bereft of his health as long as he lived.

That could be a misfortune.

But it is a misfortune, not a disaster.

To have lost one (parent, kidney, glove) is a misfortune.

Losing a boyfriend, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, is a misfortune; losing him twice looks like carelessness.

To drop one South African opener at slip might be a misfortune.

For a poet to lose such a talent would have been a misfortune.