We should not take pleasure in the misfortune of our fellow man, no matter how silly he may be. |
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Indeed, they had the misfortune of having three efforts rebound off the woodwork in this match. |
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The crabbedness of old age or misfortune was evidently looked upon as witchcraft. |
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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. |
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She was as classy as they come in the face of misfortune, so was he when he got jobbed out of a second medal. |
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I had the misfortune to be unemployed for six weeks between July and August this year. |
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The musicals of the '30s are enjoyable, in part because they don't dwell on misfortune and squalor and poverty. |
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For 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. |
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The league game most definitely was there for the taking, and in many aspects we were the authors of our own misfortune. |
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I have the misfortune through my job to have to travel that road several times a day. |
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They've had misfortune recently with the weather, after hailstorms destroyed their vegetables. |
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There are similarities with Smith, who also suffered the misfortune of misdiagnosis. |
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We feel deep sympathy for such children and lament their continuing misfortune. |
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In Ireland, in particular, misfortune was frequently blamed on fairies as well as witches. |
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It was almost a challenge, or perhaps even a test to see if misfortune had taught them anything. |
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After our brief jaunt across campus, we made our way to our hotel, where misfortune struck once again. |
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For too long people in Scotland have tried to see Scottish misfortune as the consequence of being governed from London. |
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I decided to be happy every day no matter what comes, discomfort or misfortune. |
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He must be somehow rejected in his own country and is now making everyone he meets pay for his misfortune. |
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The biggest lesson that he's taken almost five years to teach me is to overcome misfortune. |
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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. |
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It has been my great fate, or misfortune, to follow a speech more notable for its volume than for any sense. |
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I have no doubt that there is a lesson which stands to be learnt from Alice's misfortune. |
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I lamented my misfortune in picking someone so completely incompatible and agonized for weeks. |
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It's quare and hard to see what purpose there is in misfortune and trouble for people that never did anything to deserve it! |
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Your husband seems determined that the third shall also incur some misfortune by refusing to make me the Compensation which he once promised. |
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Most of the eleven essays here aim at remedying that spiritual and theological misfortune. |
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But fresh bean curd, or tofu, is not included as it is white and unlucky for New Year, as the color signifies death and misfortune. |
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She had the misfortune to be married to that monster of self-indulgence Henry VIII, the desecrator of our monasteries. |
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They offer us a shoulder to cry on and place a comforting arm around our shoulders to lighten the burden of sorrow and misfortune. |
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They all seemed to be omens to me, harbingers of misfortune, only multiplying the dread I was beginning to feel already for Monday. |
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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. |
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It has been my experience, and sometimes misfortune, that rubber grips attract and hold moisture underneath, promoting rust. |
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I would not like to think that my survival was dependent upon the hope of misfortune being visited on other farmers. |
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However, should the city fall into misfortune, the people will blame the rulers and call them oligarchs. |
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They ventured into sports much later in their life, having spent most of their formative years ruing their misfortune. |
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The second superstition was that the skimmer would perform poorly and was vulnerable to misfortune when only one of the twins was aboard. |
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It is a simple story of an unfortunate who had the misfortune to be born on the wrong side of the blanket. |
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The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten. |
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Spiteful witches, hungry ghosts, and angry spirits are thought to inflict illness and misfortune. |
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The apparent misfortune may turn out to be a blessing in disguise and the seeming stroke of luck the very stuff of tragedy. |
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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. |
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A small group of rituals known as maledictions can visit misfortune and woe upon the target of one's ire. |
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It is my misfortune to be living in a street in which there are several houses in multiple occupation. |
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I trudged up the walkway into the tiny undersized school that I had the misfortune to attend. |
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Your great State has never experienced the misfortune of being occupied, and Australians never had to flee from an oppressive dictatorship. |
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What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage. |
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The catastrophe into which the world has thrust the socialist proletariat is an unexampled misfortune for humanity. |
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Have you ever had the misfortune damaging one of your favorite firearms because you were too cheap to purchase a quality gun case? |
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I'm pretty sure, however, that such a convergence of misfortune was a freak event and it won't happen again. |
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She was a glamorous loser, a musical comedy tragedienne, a mixture of frivolity and misfortune. |
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He wanders miserably through the woods and by a stroke of misfortune finds himself wed to a corpse bride. |
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Needless to say, losing one's source of income at a young age is a devastating personal misfortune. |
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Rather, their faith gave them direction in the face of persecution and general misfortune. |
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They also maintained that illness, poverty, business failure, or any other misfortune is simply due to sin and spiritual impurity. |
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I have the misfortune to live between a blinding, yellow concrete monstrosity on one side and an unkempt, dirty, semi-paved yard on the other. |
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We have much greater hopes in the matter if the planet who receives the significator is itself free from misfortune. |
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It's a downtrodden tale full of woe and misfortune, a portrait of loneliness and bleakness. |
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Sport is opportunistic and participants capitalise on the misfortune of others. |
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Alliss did not react well to such misfortune and does not spare himself in the telling of the saddest chapter of his endlessly eventful life. |
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Not able to work, he struggles to envision a future for himself and how his misfortune might end. |
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He was rude, aggressive, invasive and just about as bumptious a little man as it's ever been my misfortune to meet. |
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This paper examines Bedouin attitudes and practices relating to the evil eye as a cause of misfortune. |
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It was Michigan's fortune and misfortune to be a center of one such boom and bust cycle at the very time it was achieving statehood. |
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Like the rest of the field, Woods was swinging on thin ice, knowing that the slightest false step or slice of misfortune would draw blood. |
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Antony and Crassus invaded the territory of the Parthians easily, but to their own misfortune. |
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Some Vietnamese believe that spirits have the ability to bring good fortune and misfortune to human life. |
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This helped me to be a great deal less judgmental and to avoid gloating at the misfortune of others. |
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I had looned and lazied my way through physical childhood and the misfortune of a crazed adolescence. |
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Even if short-term inhibition of GDP growth is on occasions necessary, growth foregone is nevertheless the very essence of social misfortune. |
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It is Quaranth's misfortune to be a town that lies on one of three concentric circles that surround the tower. |
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As a result of Wilberfoss' misfortune and a 4-1 walloping of Wheldrake, White Horse moved into third place in the table. |
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Because of my misfortune, I am hunted and condemned like a cursed criminal. |
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However, their lives were marred by poverty and misfortune due in large part to discrimination and prejudice. |
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It was the group's misfortune to come into prominence during the dawning of the video music era. |
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Our misfortune is that we seem to be in the wrong geographical position for the proposed new parish boundaries. |
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She was now not quite a widow, which for a Bengali Hindu woman would be the most cursed state, but a woman who brings her family misfortune and death. |
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I have the misfortune of catching a number 21 service heading eastwards at least four times a month, at the exact time when all the schools are emptying. |
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And in just one respect, Britain was the architect of its own misfortune. |
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To combat any potential misfortune, they stick out the second and fifth digits of one hand and touch their genitals with the outstretched fingertips. |
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In a poignant letter written in Syriac from prison to his son, Mara bar Serapion points out that those who persecuted wise men were overtaken by misfortune. |
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You shouldn't be surprised that misfortune befalls noble men. |
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A fine gymnast, cricketer and rugby player, Eric had a Welsh schoolboy trial as a fly half, but had the misfortune to play opposite one of the future Welsh rugby greats. |
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For them, a childless marriage is considered a great misfortune. |
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And I'd like to quote another one of our ancient philosophical teachings which says that good luck always keeps company with misfortune and vice versa. |
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She rattled off countless fundraisers in the past to help individual residents struck by misfortune. |
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Too often, free flowing emotions of sympathy dissipate with the initial fascination, without confronting the long-term consequences of misfortune. |
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Investments that rely on the misfortune of others or the good will of sharks are a losing proposition in the long term, whatever the quarterly earnings report says. |
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These gentlemen, said Clausewitz in brief, had the misfortune of mistaking the accoutrements of war for its essential nature. |
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But religion also compels us to fight the unjust, prejudiced systems that cause and perpetuate that misfortune. |
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It is a misfortune that the text of the history of Ammianus Marcellinus, which introduces this episode, is defective, and that only allusive back references survive. |
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It was his misfortune to live at the dawn of the democratic age, when the people seldom responded to the call of those who claimed to speak for them. |
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Our people, in order not to suffer again the misfortune of a stateless nation, heroically defended the Republic against the armed invasion of the US imperialists. |
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But after years of warning worshipers to avoid the seduction of material success, pastors are now sermonizing on the predicaments of sudden economic misfortune. |
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However, should any over-eager young swain on her card have the misfortune to fall over in their rush to get to her and break a leg, I shall oblige. |
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We must do all we can to bring back a system where the person who is primarily responsible for his own misfortune must bear the full blame for that misfortune. |
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Consequently, you get an evening of light, frothy entertainment as you revel in the filthy deeds the schemers get up to and share their delight at the misfortune of others. |
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I got off the coach with other passengers and was about 10 yards from the coach when I had the misfortune to slip on a discarded, shiny potato crisp packet. |
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Consider the parent who has the misfortune of having to care for a critically injured child over a long period as a result of a careless driving incident. |
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After all, a fool and his money are soon parted, and the victims of these scams have brought financial misfortune on themselves, isn't that right? |
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In other words, they should not blame their misfortune on anybody else. |
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Not infrequently clubs are the architects of their own misfortune. |
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To cap Flanagan's misfortune, he punctured with 15 miles to go and there was an immediate charge from the front of his bunch, capitalising on his ill luck. |
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But the following years bring misfortune more grievous than any in London. |
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The lower gods can either assist people or bring misfortune to them. |
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Wasn't she the one who unleashed all manner of misfortune upon the world? |
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How many beautiful friendships may perish prematurely because of people losing contact this way, as a result of some virus or other computer misfortune? |
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Still, both teams have the misfortune of playing in the divisions with the best teams in their conferences, so both are more likely to be wildcard contenders. |
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It is a misfortune, but nobody has charged that it was fraudulent. |
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Normally I'm not this philosophical when it comes to personal misfortune. |
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There could never be an apropos moment to suffer such an appalling episode, but the timing in his case serves only to highlight his misfortune in even sharper relief. |
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Schadenfreude, which means 'satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune. |
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Runga Charlu was subjected to grave accusations in Mysore as he had the misfortune to be a Madrasi. |
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When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it. |
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But Pham and his housemates simply had the misfortune of living at the address a pedophile had called home several months before. |
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We have the misfortune of having a two-story fourplex looming over our bedroom and backyard in our westside neighborhood. |
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Distributionally and semantically similar nominals like misfortune and mischief lack a source for a verbal base. |
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Needy, venal and entirely unencumbered with self-knowledge or native wit, the Duchess is yet again the architect of her own misfortune. |
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At least that seems to be the general consensus of a phone-in I had the suicidal misfortune of tuning into last week. |
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There are Federal and State Lemon Laws to protect people if they have the misfortune of purchasing a vehicle that is a lemon. |
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If they did not, the ghosts could inflict misfortune and illness on the living. |
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But their kennel caper starts to unwind when they have the misfortune to dognap Bonny, a cute little shih tzu. |
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Although prized as an ornamental flower, some people consider narcissi unlucky, because they hang their heads implying misfortune. |
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Then another misfortune avalanched itself upon me, before even I had fully taken in the extent of the first. |
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Anthropologist Victor Turner defines rites of affliction actions that seek to mitigate spirits that inflict humans with misfortune. |
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The patrolman had the misfortune to be assigned a beat that ran past the house of Ms. McDougall, a notorious prattler and neighborhood gossip. |
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The dynamic Wasps No8 ended up missing four months of last season after the infection led to discitis and then a catalogue of misfortune. |
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To offset this misfortune Phocaea, their founding city, was given its freedom by Pompey. |
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Friends are a comfort in misfortune, but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy, as is done by women and womanish men. |
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Those without the work ethic clung to the theodicy of misfortune, believing wealth and happiness were granted in the afterlife. |
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Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum. |
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Schadenfreude or obtaining pleasure and joy over someone else's misfortune, isn't something strictly restricted to adults. |
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I had the misfortune of a 10-hour flight to Las Vegas, sitting next to a 20-stone man snoring like the mating call of a bull elk. |
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It may be deduced, therefore, that left is directly linked to the darkness, sinisterness, filthiness, bad luck, misfortune, and profanity. |
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Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum. |
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Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune. |
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Dynastic infighting and misfortune quickly brought about the demise of the House of York. |
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And to blame for their woeful misfortune will solely be the western powers that led them up the garden path with their notorious trickery and monkeyshines. |
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There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature. |
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In stage 5 of the demographic transition, a country encounters misfortune as a whole this is because the death rate becomes higher than the birth rate. |
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. |
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Yet the misfortune of his life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings, failing to accomplish any one masterpiece, seems to mark the closing of an era. |
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Some Indo-Fijians practice thaumaturgic firewalking associated with rituals of self mutilation to overcome personal illness or a misfortune in the household. |
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The worst tour I have ever had the misfortune to experience. |
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In contrast, Pentecostal churches adopted the theodicy of misfortune. |
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Prometheans do not accept preventable misfortune or suffering. |
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Poor Holly had the massive misfortune of having an assistant principal for a mother, which, Alexa knew, made her life unfun both in and out of school. |
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These two seem to prefigure Waiting for Godot, suggesting a broader human context to their tragedy than the specific misfortune of the Depression. |
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The snowstorm, which was the cause of their misfortune, happened in the middle of January, corresponding to our July, and in the latitude of Durham! |
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The dynamic Wasps number eight ended up missing four months of last season after the infection led to discitis and then a catalogue of misfortune. |
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The loss was regarded by Queen Mary I of England as a dreadful misfortune. |
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