Too often their misfortunes are met with glee, a schadenfreude that is quite horrifying. |
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He is perennially dogged by comic mishaps and misfortunes, usually of his own making. |
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We are individually shaped by our fortunes and misfortunes, by our upbringing, by the labyrinthine patterns of our hates and pleasures. |
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In this thread, you allude to those continuing misfortunes, and mention Seth by name in, I think, your third or fourth post. |
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The theft had been the latest in a series of misfortunes to befall the memorial garden. |
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Still less welcome is he who would make a Roman holiday of our misfortunes. |
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Sometimes they were assisted with money to buy medicines or helped with other misfortunes. |
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The researchers autopsied 302 people who had died suddenly of heart attacks, auto accidents, or other misfortunes. |
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The kindliness of the Maoriland climate enables Maorilanders to look rather philosophically on the misfortunes of their neighbors. |
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He realizes that the misfortunes of life, like losing a job or a home, or disastrous illness, may bow him down but can never break him. |
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Film producers tend to blame cable TV and video piracy for their misfortunes. |
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The Cody Canal continued to suffer from bureaucratic failures and misfortunes. |
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Their sense of humour is unkind and they tend to enjoy other people's misfortunes. |
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Where is the incentive to act responsibly by trying to safeguard against the financial consequences of life's misfortunes? |
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A series of misfortunes have struck the region at once, and the people effected can do little about it. |
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Even so, his words and evidence have been discredited in ways which make the public feel he might be responsible for his own misfortunes. |
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It's very painful when we know people are laughing at our misfortunes, but it's wonderfully consoling when we see other people fall. |
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After a few times we spent together, she did mention her misfortunes in Brazil which made her stronger and live a happier life. |
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It makes the city look money-hungry and willing to profit from one of its citizen's misfortunes. |
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I tried hard to overcome the great misfortunes that had befallen me and tried to finish my last days as a teacher with peace and faith in God. |
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However, the latest misfortunes have befallen the Baltimore share price under his chairmanship. |
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People who use investment strategies that involve cheating or preying on the misfortunes of others are crooks. |
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Make sure that that the tires are properly inflated to avoid misfortunes on the road. |
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Born of people's misfortunes, credit counseling was a sleepy cottage industry for a long time. |
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We have become voyeurs getting our kicks out of other people's fun and misfortunes. |
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It's one of the great misfortunes of the cinema box office culture that subtitled films don't get the general release they so often deserve. |
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Some inspired driving and mechanical misfortunes for others saw Moss bring the green car home in front. |
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Based on a Russian folk tale, the story outlines the misfortunes of a young soldier who sells his soul to the devil. |
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The use of the future tense indicates that blessedness includes future benefits that overcome the misfortunes of the present. |
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Some people seem to take great delight in hearing about the misfortunes of others. |
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So how come such misfortunes have happened over and over again? |
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For, as we have seen, the misfortunes of the city were due to the insalubrity of its climate and the collapse of the Portuguese power and commerce in the East. |
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A country so steeped in manmade misfortunes, so proud of its ethos of self-support, was caught unaware when nature struck. |
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Most of the time, the motive is to get even with those they hold responsible for their misfortunes. |
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But his rivals' misfortunes aside, the Andalusian proved that he deserved victory, as he held onto his advantage in the last part of the competition. |
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He is one of the most underrated rockers of the 20th century, an enormously talented musician whose misfortunes have completely eclipsed his importance in modern music. |
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Compared to his misfortunes, his workers' troubles seem hardly worth noticing. |
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And he is also, at the personal level, sensitive to the misfortunes of others. |
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They remain as the unobserved recipient of all these misfortunes. |
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Chinese philosophers believe in the mutual convertibility of blessings and misfortunes and nowhere is this dramatized so vividly as in Chinese officialdom. |
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Sometimes we can be amused by the misfortunes of somebody else, but our amusement is particularly great if we are sure the loser is not really hurt. |
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He wanted revenge on me, because he blamed his misfortunes on me. |
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A grizzled veteran of environmental misfortunes, Harry knew there was no way to spray perfume on an oil slick. |
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Over the years it has learned to benefit from the misfortunes of others. |
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Although Douglas had been the cause of his misfortunes, he and Wilde were reunited in August 1897 at Rouen. |
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Conversely, misfortunes are often attributed to ancestors whose memory or wishes have been neglected. |
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But it is Schadenfreude, a mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others, which remains the worst trait in human nature. |
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She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes. |
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There have been other misfortunes along the way but yesterday was truly the lowest point for Labour since the Ge neral Election. |
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Malicious magic users can become a credible cause for disease, sickness in animals, bad luck, sudden death, impotence and other such misfortunes. |
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The Church and European society were not always so zealous in hunting witches or blaming them for misfortunes. |
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There are stories of accidents, misfortunes and even deaths taking place during runs of Macbeth. |
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Life is not to be conceived on the analogy of a melodrama in which the hero and heroine go through incredible misfortunes for which they are compensated by a happy ending. |
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Placing the child's inheritance in trust, with a resolute and diligent third-party trustee or cotrustee, protects the trust beneficiary from these misfortunes. |
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Not that it has made a difference in our lustmaking. It seems that his desire for me died around the same time he got wind of Harry's misfortunes. |
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Her growth therefore we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. |
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Throughout his life she proved an invaluable aid, helping to print his illuminated works and maintaining his spirits throughout numerous misfortunes. |
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