He evinced a furtive joy in the misfortune he was causing, a kind of surreptitious euphoria, and it was not entirely foreign to his host.
In Illinois, Bridgette Buckner seemed to be hit with tragic misfortune in 2008 when she was injured at work (Hallmark Services, subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield), then her daughter, grandmother and husband had all died.
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But in snarky Hollywood, Iger has the misfortune of toiling in the shadow of an executive idol.
By holding on, even amid cruelty and loss, and then expanding to a sense of compassion, an ability to love -- by holding on to her humanity -- she has inspired countless others who have known injustice and misfortune in their own lives.
My maternal grandfather served in HMSAN in both world wars and had the misfortune to have his ship torpedoed in both.
The company's misfortune, in addition to overexpansion, is that recent economic turmoil came right on the heels of cheaper alternatives that were already chipping away at market share.
Even if the auction makes financial sense for the government, it might ensure that the Dome's misfortune is remembered in perpetuity.
Injury has taken a toll, as has the misfortune of playing in an era dominated by all-timers like Federer and Rafael Nadal.
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These recent graduates were offered a generous gift in a time of great misfortune, and their response was to look at it askance.
She had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it was a tragically common place to be.
But anyone who had the misfortune to travel in the U.S. this past summer probably already knows that the "commitment" hasn't exactly made things better.
However, the Bridgend-born player again played a key role in Wales' second Grand Slam in four years before his injury misfortune struck again.
He's got a crush on his computer operating system, named Tammy, and has the great misfortune of getting stuck in a time loop.
There were only a handful of Australian fans watching, though the Barmy Army were in full force lapping up every misfortune that befell the hosts.
But Woods had the misfortune to be caught in the worst of the winds which battered the Old Course on Friday and despite a battling effort slipped back to four-under.
"In some way, through the misfortune that has hung over our country, God is helping us to reunite, helping us realise that strength lies in unity, and not division, " wrote Carolina Jaimes Branger.
In this case the lawyers had the misfortune to be up against Skadden Arps.
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Mr Papandreou was in part the author of his own misfortune.
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More or Less Presenter Andrew Dilnot, went to see someone whose terrible misfortune is to have cancer in a tiny village which has 17 other cases.
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It was Junoon's misfortune to have preached that theme in India soon after that country tested its nuclear bomb.
Bartow thinks his misfortune stemmed from a temporary glitch in Google's algorithm.
On his appointment in May 2008 he said that it was his misfortune to take on the job just as Ireland's property boom was ending.
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It was a marked improvement on last year, however, when she had the misfortune to draw world number one Dinara Safina in the first round and failed to win a game.
It seems that in economies where labour is plentiful, one family's misfortune is another's opportunity.
Unicom blames a perfect storm for its misfortune, citing the sale of its CDMA network in 2008 for an artificially inflated profit a year ago combined with the immense expense involved in rolling out its HSPA cells over the course of 2009.
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His misfortune opened the way for Symonds, who was superb in the second Test against South Africa in Melbourne.
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It was their misfortune that Thomas Cromwell, grieving for Wolsey, was watching in the wings.
Tsonga was playing only his fifth match since losing to Murray in the Wimbledon quarter-finals because of injury and he had the misfortune to run out of gas just as Murray appears to be rediscovering his confidence.
This was in the spring of our senior year, and Anne Marie had the misfortune of giving her presentation right after James Nagali, the only other male student at Our Lady of the Lake, who gave a masterly speech on new soap-dispensing technologies.
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