He has the odd misfortune of repeatedly hiring party stooges for key assignments who stab him in the back as soon as they leave his employ.Ī small group of rituals known as maledictions can visit misfortune and woe upon the target of one's ire. The apparent misfortune may turn out to be a blessing in disguise and the seeming stroke of luck the very stuff of tragedy. Spiteful witches, hungry ghosts, and angry spirits are thought to inflict illness and misfortune. The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten. It is a simple story of an unfortunate who had the misfortune to be born on the wrong side of the blanket. The second superstition was that the skimmer would perform poorly and was vulnerable to misfortune when only one of the twins was aboard. They ventured into sports much later in their life, having spent most of their formative years ruing their misfortune. However, should the city fall into misfortune, the people will blame the rulers and call them oligarchs. I would not like to think that my survival was dependent upon the hope of misfortune being visited on other farmers. It has been my experience, and sometimes misfortune, that rubber grips attract and hold moisture underneath, promoting rust. If you think our presence here is not warranted, you have the misfortune of not being able to see the faces of a liberated people. They all seemed to be omens to me, harbingers of misfortune, only multiplying the dread I was beginning to feel already for Monday. They offer us a shoulder to cry on and place a comforting arm around our shoulders to lighten the burden of sorrow and misfortune. She had the misfortune to be married to that monster of self-indulgence Henry VIII, the desecrator of our monasteries.
Most of the eleven essays here aim at remedying that spiritual and theological misfortune.īut fresh bean curd, or tofu, is not included as it is white and unlucky for New Year, as the color signifies death and misfortune. Your husband seems determined that the third shall also incur some misfortune by refusing to make me the Compensation which he once promised. It's quare and hard to see what purpose there is in misfortune and trouble for people that never did anything to deserve it! I lamented my misfortune in picking someone so completely incompatible and agonized for weeks. I have no doubt that there is a lesson which stands to be learnt from Alice's misfortune. It has been my great fate, or misfortune, to follow a speech more notable for its volume than for any sense. The simple fact is these firms are businesses and they aren't in it for your benefit, they are in it to make money out of your misfortune. The biggest lesson that he's taken almost five years to teach me is to overcome misfortune. He must be somehow rejected in his own country and is now making everyone he meets pay for his misfortune. I decided to be happy every day no matter what comes, discomfort or misfortune. It was almost a challenge, or perhaps even a test to see if misfortune had taught them anything.Īfter our brief jaunt across campus, we made our way to our hotel, where misfortune struck once again.įor too long people in Scotland have tried to see Scottish misfortune as the consequence of being governed from London. In Ireland, in particular, misfortune was frequently blamed on fairies as well as witches. We feel deep sympathy for such children and lament their continuing misfortune. There are similarities with Smith, who also suffered the misfortune of misdiagnosis. They've had misfortune recently with the weather, after hailstorms destroyed their vegetables. I have the misfortune through my job to have to travel that road several times a day. The league game most definitely was there for the taking, and in many aspects we were the authors of our own misfortune. The musicals of the '30s are enjoyable, in part because they don't dwell on misfortune and squalor and poverty.įor example, one should not talk of death, dying or misfortune and not reminisce about the past year, as this is a new year and a new beginning. I had the misfortune to be unemployed for six weeks between July and August this year. She was as classy as they come in the face of misfortune, so was he when he got jobbed out of a second medal. While the haddock was formidably smokey, the mustard cream sauce was far less rich than some versions I've had the misfortune to come across. The crabbedness of old age or misfortune was evidently looked upon as witchcraft. Indeed, they had the misfortune of having three efforts rebound off the woodwork in this match. We should not take pleasure in the misfortune of our fellow man, no matter how silly he may be.
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