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Example sentences for: misfortune

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If you don't know the difference between the appropriate contexts in which to use two examples placed one after the other in your grammar book, it's a consequence of your mind's incapacity to grasp how things ought to be correctly expressed, not that you've had the misfortune of being born into the working class.
Woolf provides a nightmarish echo to Mrs. Dalloway in Septimus Warren Smith (Rupert Graves), an ex-soldier who has had the misfortune of witnessing a buddy being blown to bits in front of his eyes.
We pity a tragic hero such as Hamlet because his misfortune is undeserved, and we tremble at the realization that he is like us.
Answer: "The truth is that Europeans--and not just the French, who at least admit to it--positively enjoy transatlantic misfortune.
Kutchins and Kirk appear to believe that attaching diagnoses to victims must necessarily be in the service of evil conservatism, but pathologizing misfortune is a technique more often employed by the left than the right--by those, that is to say, who want to mitigate responsibility by drawing attention to its causes, rather than those who want to assign blame.