Misfortune
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I had the
misfortune
of seeing the movie on the SciFi channel just a few days after finishing the book.
These are people apart from the rest of the world by reason of
misfortune
or status, who hold our attention as they eventually come together.
Quite simply put, one of the worst films I have ever had the
misfortune
to see.
A group of teens have the
misfortune
of falling prey to hoodoo worshiping occult masquerading as a Catholic school for troubled girls.
It SEEMED to be accurate to those of us who have never had the
misfortune
of being jailed.
I had the
misfortune
of meeting this film's creator at a film festival.
As soon as it ended, I grabbed the disk from my DVD player, put it back in it's case and returned it for my money back (To my misfortune, we bought it) That's 2 hours I'll never get back, save your time and money and don't see it.
As in the best times of the Cold War, and in the absence of more credible and convincing enemies have no reserves to use these despicable methods to manipulate the brains of people who have the
misfortune
to run into this crap that in the absence of arguments using weapons, explosions, shooting, violence absolutely free and what is worse, using the figure of a child and noble sentiments that are prostitutes to raise money.In possession of a genuine ingenuousness I wonder, how is it possible that there are people who can devote to a movie so bad?
The last two-bit crook I had the
misfortune
to meet wasn't a likeable cheaky chappy.
When the bloc loses a single member state, it looks like a
misfortune
that can be attributed to the departing country’s domestic peculiarities.
This is a lesson for all countries contemplating corporate tax breaks – even those without the
misfortune
of being led by a callow, craven plutocrat.
The reason is clear: it is, thankfully, no longer fashionable to decry colonialism's evils in assigning blame for every national
misfortune.
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.
Plummer’s case thus highlights a broader misfortune: that so many citizens of developing countries are denied effective pain relief by governments in the grip of opiophobia.
Then, as Chinese were wondering why 2008, a year of supposed good fortune marked by the lucky number eight, had started with so much misfortune, a deadly earthquake struck Sichuan province, killing 80,000 people and leaving millions homeless.
Now, Merkel has had the
misfortune
of inheriting an incoherent project (a currency union without fiscal and political union) – a situation that demands some type of vision from a politician famously good at everything but articulating one.
By forcing greater efficiency and collaboration,
misfortune
can yield benefit.
To lose one international lending institution head is misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness (my apologies to Oscar Wilde).
But then the judges had the
misfortune
of realizing their fondest dream – trying in their court the arch-villain Slobodan Milosevic.
Not everyone is distressed by Turkey’s
misfortune.
Doubters need only recall the unwillingness of Secretary General after Secretary General, from U Thant to Kofi Annan, to meet with – or, in some cases, even to permit on the UN’s premises – victims of human rights violations who had the
misfortune
of being born in powerful countries.
The Luddites, however, blamed their
misfortune
on the machines themselves.
Failure to understand and interpret the true and fundamental message of the Koran has brought only
misfortune
to Muslims.
As Oscar Wilde’s Lady Bracknell says in The Importance of Being Earnest: “To lose one parent…may be regarded as a
misfortune.
It was America’s
misfortune
to undergo one disaster of the Great Depression’s scale; to undergo two does indeed look like carelessness.
India’s misfortune, in the economist Jagdish Bhagwati’s famous aphorism, was to be afflicted with brilliant economists.
A capital grant of some 10,000 euros, dollars, or pounds – funded by a tax on lifetime bequests, or a progressive expenditure tax – would give every young person a stake in society, a buffer against misfortune, and the means to invest in their future.
When the poorest countries – most of them in Africa or with Muslim majorities – choose to sustain and even devise new policies that oppress women, we have to be willing to say that, in some measure, they are choosing the economic
misfortune
that follows.
The main reason for this is that Ireland has been traumatized by economic
misfortune
over the past year.
Japan Spins Its WheelsOSAKA – To lose one prime minister may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two in one year looks like carelessness.
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