Misfortune in example sentence

Havel defied his misfortune by establishing himself during the 1960s as one of Europe's leading playwrights, only to become a pariah again after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia crushed the "Prague Spring" reform movement in 1968.

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It mostly projects tragedy and fear and misfortune, and it projects that message, that story, so strongly that it almost blots out anything else.

And we all know people who have lots of misfortune, misfortune that we ourselves would not want to have, and they are deeply happy.

He would, I imagine, first of all express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people.

The good news is that NASA has a small, secret contingency-plan division that is looking at this, trying to keep knowledge of Orion preserved in the event of such a misfortune.

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