Sentence examples for with misfortune from inspiring English sources

Those results are underlined with misfortune.

Courage came with misfortune; she took no credit for it.

Everything to come, the narrator cautions, is "rife with misfortune, misery, and despair".

In the months that followed, Durazzo held firm against the Normans, and Bohemond met with misfortune in Albania.

So we know from the beginning that Mr. Sturrock's dangerous swipe with misfortune did not derail his career and life.

It was said that for Yukawa, living in proximity to danger represented a final chance to make sense of a life filled with misfortune.

He fought against the Assyrian Ashur-uballiṭ II and then against Egypt, his successes alternating with misfortunes.

With misfortunes of the rich prevalent in the news, Caitlin Macy's new book, "Spoiled" (Random House), offers a collection of telling short stories, one of which, "Christie," ran in the magazine in 2003.

"Extreme sympathy with misfortunes which we know nothing about, seems altogether absurd and unreasonable," Smith wrote, dismissing "those whining and melancholy moralists, who are perpetually reproaching us with our happiness, while so many of our brethren are in misery".

By Lauren Porcaro Dorment March 23 , 2009With misfortunes of the rich prevalent in the news, Caitlin Macy's new book, "Spoiled" (Random House), offers a collection of telling short stories, one of which, "Christie," ran in the magazine in 2003.

First, they teach us how to avoid misfortunes or mitigate the impact they have on our life; second, in case they happen, they direct our attention to ways of coping with misfortunes or escape dangerous consequences; third, they tell us how to gain "some good" out of "any kind of ill" (De utilitate, OO, II, 10b, 27b, 39a).