Sentence examples for weight of misfortune from inspiring English sources

In the harrowing stories that make up A. L. Kennedy's fourth collection, "What Becomes," people buckle under the weight of misfortune: dead children, dismembered limbs, failing marriages, spurned hearts.

In one passage, Andric writes of how a flood brought Christians, Jews and Muslims together to rebuild: "The force of the elements and the weight of common misfortune brought all these men together and bridged, at least for this one evening, the gulf that divided one faith from the other". Kusturica brightened at the mention of this story.

Beyond thinking that a rich society ought to be able to provide this basic need of life as a matter of course, the main reason to support strong universal health care is personal and family security: removing the weight of vulnerability to misfortune.

Re "On the Verge of 'Vital Exhaustion'?" (Mind, June 1): Having treated "nervous breakdowns" and "near nervous breakdowns" for 30 years, it is clear to me that all of us are vulnerable to collapsing under the heavy weight of life's misfortunes, especially given the inevitable weak points in our personality infrastructures.

Joseph Brodsky and the fortunes of misfortune.

There is some fortune in Haiti's history of misfortune.

Mentions de Vicenzo's sportsmanship in his hour of misfortune.

This is Beslan.The usual clichés of misfortune are too feeble.

The ring was bought to counter a run of misfortune.

The repetitions of "misfortune" and "misfortune," "July" and "July," recall the interlocking syntax of Virgil's Latin and of Milton's approximation of it.

It's been a litany of misfortune and near misses.