| 单词 | bad luck |
| 例句 | “Well now, if the falling of this bird is a sign of a curse or bad luck, we are in both. So I am eating every bit of it. You can do as you please.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He hadn’t had real family here, but he’d been one of them, bound to this place by bad luck and bad choices. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He also says that it’s bad luck to have “three on a match.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘Put him in your boat. Don’t hurt him or bind him. I have a feeling Michael’s heart is in the right place. He just had the bad luck of being sponsored by the wrong person.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Oh, one of her annoying superstitions. You were still in my belly. It had something to do with a baby getting bad luck if the mother looks at the dead.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z If a bird pooped on a clean white sheet while flying over the clothesline, that meant bad luck. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It feels like there might be not as much bad luck. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z When he gave me that envelope on the street, I told him the letter could only court bad luck. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Pilot and navigator error, mechanical failure, and bad luck were killing trainees at a stunning rate. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Lola would remind them that they shouldn’t search through dead people’s things; it would only bring bad luck. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z If I stepped over a broom that was lying on the floor, I would have bad luck. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “She says it be bad luck to pretend about a baby.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z If it’s bad luck you ride it out and if it comes the other way and you have good luck you’re ready for it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry the fox got him, sir. It was a stroke of very bad luck.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “No,” I answered, “I do not fish for carp. It is bad luck.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The man who catches a meningococcus is in considerably less danger for his life, even without chemotherapy, than meningococci with the bad luck to catch a man. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And if anything made Grandmother unreasonable, it was bad luck. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Can you really take the bad luck away?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think Stew Cat is bad luck,” I said. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and mis- fortune is just bad luck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There’s that other part of his genetic makeup that’s not inherited but just incredibly bad luck. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z It was sullen with helpless fury at all the bad luck that had befallen them lately. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He said, “The way I see it, it’s bad luck. Everybody knows what bad luck is. It leaves you defenseless. And there it is! The way I see it, it’s bad luck.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z But we would never return them empty, because it was bad luck. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Just left me flat, in the middle of all that bad luck and broken sky. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sailors are mighty superstitious, and as they went about the day’s business, they were careful to avoid it, as if they’d catch cannibalism, or bad luck, if they strayed too close. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She wondered if the treasures she summoned would still bring bad luck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I raised dust swirls sweeping around and under the FOB’s chair—very bad luck because spirits live inside the broom. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Once they were out the door, Lizzie said goodbye and scurried away, as if Lina’s bad luck were a disease she might catch. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "I said," the nurse raised her voice, as if speaking to a deaf person, "seven years' bad luck." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Those places are full of bad memories and bad luck. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z And the judge said, “Yes, fine. But we are here to judge just this sort of bad luck. Thank you.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Neither could Maniac explain that the bad luck he always seemed to have with parents had led him to the conclusion that he’d better stick to himself. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He must be one ’em folk that believe it’s bad luck to take a bath in May, June, July, or August plus any month that’s got the letter r in its spelling. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Illnesses, bad luck and unemployment were caused by witchcraft, and only the timely intervention by my ancestral spirits—through a powerful witch doctor as an intermediary—could relieve anyone of such suffering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hope he’s right. I hope Rufus has used up all his bad luck just in getting the set of parents he’s stuck with.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Guillermo leans down, takes the black bundle of bad luck into his arms. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She was so enraged at her bad luck that she almost forgot to be afraid. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Careful, or some jealous demon will wish us bad luck.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did they have so much bad luck? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Definitely look both ways before crossing the street, you two. I’m bad luck.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It is bad luck to let one of these small whirlwinds strike you. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know it’s bad luck to show it before it’s done.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I asked him, and he said, ‘They’re the rare worst of bad luck. You take a flight of white pigeons and they’ll bring sadness and death. Get gray ones.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Many of the men felt it was bad luck to do so. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He had the bad luck of drawing into an event that featured the best filly in the country, Myrdewood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it seemed to him that he was always saying or thinking that he didn’t deserve some bad luck, or some bad treatment from others. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It might mean bad luck for both of them. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z It’s true, after all, at least compared to him, and actually what he means is that I have bad luck with women. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t say that name, Diana. It’s bad luck.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you’ll come to bad luck. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Given this formidable array of bad luck, poor timing, and the highly focused political strategy of his Republican enemies, Adams actually did surprisingly well when all the votes were counted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was no room for bad luck or chance in their lives. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are having bad luck. Heavy rain again today.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Tehlu anyway, have you had bad luck your whole life, or have you been saving it all up for tonight?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z CJ, short for Calamity Jane/Jude, is what everyone at school calls me on account of my “bad luck.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But Thalia and I won the prize for bad luck. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “You could pass it on to someone, but doing that was like passing on evil, or bad luck, or a bad spirit—the transmission also reflected God's will.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But to be ill, on this day—very bad luck. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s bad luck to be overconfident,” I translated. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z With just a little bad luck, one of the whites would spot me, or, in the darkness, fail to spot me and step on me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Was it fate that took you from your family and stuck you in a pleasure house in Ketterdam? Or was it just very bad luck?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He tried to explain about the accidents, about his bad luck, but each time Pastor Tom cut him off, called it evil superstition. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z All Felix could think about was the bad luck that always accompanied bad decisions. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z —Lewis My reply: Commander, pure bad luck is responsible for my situation, not you. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There's something wrong with me for thinking like this, for wishing bad luck to Leo, but I know everything in life has to have a trade. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “You should know. There has been a lot of bad luck. Around me. Like, it follows me. I think. Maybe.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z An offhand remark about a bit of bad luck would prompt the entire story of how Job suffered but did not curse his Lord. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The other children of Ch’ulp’o had long spurned him, for orphans were considered very bad luck. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I'm guessing they think that people who end up here don't need any more bad luck. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “It means bad luck. You know how quickly fire takes offense.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was no weakling and a good ratter, but it had the bad luck to be up against a dedicated fighter who was spoiling for action. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the book they do a lot of laughing, having so much bad luck. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion presented one drawback, of course: nuns, and anything pertaining to them, were bad luck, and Perry was most respectful of his superstitions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Or even worse than bad luck: If you truly didn’t accept your given house, then you couldn’t be sealed with your coven during the ceremony. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z To “commiserate” is to feel sorry for somebody else’s bad luck. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Then, “She doesn’t want me to come visit anymore. She thinks she’s bad luck.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or are you saying those kids used up all the bad luck, so we never have to worry about being kidnapped? Thank you, Other-Finn and Other-Emma and Other-Rochester! Hope you get found soon!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It would bring bad luck, bad luck for the next three hundred and sixty-five days. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Everybody knew it was bad luck to fish for the big carp that the summer floods washed downstream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught a little of it—something about Toor and his bad luck. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “But we must. It would be bad luck not to.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Or have we just had a stroke of bad luck? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Dairy gives me gas, and gas is bad luck. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Barring bad luck, he tells himself, he might make it to the border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And as so often seems to happen, the good luck came about because of bad luck. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z “I hope — oh, I shouldn’t say anything or I’ll invite bad luck.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In his next start, on September 2 in the Roamer Handicap, Seabiscuit had nothing but bad luck. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “That would mean at least ten years’ bad luck for you both,” said Dustfinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Being kidnapped sounds like bad luck to me,” Finn said, giggling. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z From the moment they began their magical training, they were told, and told again and again, that their coven was their destiny, and that being ungrateful for fate’s gifts would curse them with bad luck. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And because of his bad luck and because he was in his truck, driving eastbound on Route 27 this morning, two kids are now parentless and at least one of them is in grave condition. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They hunted together, and were bad luck to anyone they caught. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose even our bad luck looks good to you.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z If I broke a mirror, I would have seven years of bad luck. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s bad luck for the Mark’s last day on dawn and evening,” replied Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because you were there! Your bad luck rubbed off on me. How did you know where I was going?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z At such times she neglected to mention the bad luck that befell the first Stanley Yelnats. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z If the roof crashes on your head, no need to cry over this bad luck. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z What deep readings his modified sensibility might make of human suffering, of the self-destructive folly or sheer bad luck that drive men toward ill health! Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As bad luck would have it, my bedroom window looked west to the haunted woods. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “That and her reading. Only a devil child can read when so young. She has brought nothing but bad luck to this family. It is time to be rid of her.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “You wouldn’t want me on your ship. I’m a Jonah. I’d bring bad luck.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Dad was born, most of the money was lost to extravagance and bad luck, and soon the big family was broken up. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She says, “Please. Don’t be afraid. Live your big life, Mason! You are not bad luck. You’re not stupid, or dangerous, or any of those things.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “Well,” the man said, “about a month ago, our mare ran away, and I cursed our bad luck until Old Sai said, ‘You don’t know. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It is bad luck to touch the dead.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She said in life, there was good luck followed by no luck, followed by bad luck, followed by tragical luck, followed by the luck of the Bobos. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “The Romans don’t trust me. That’s why I was hoping she’d listen to you. Children of Pluto... well, no offense, but they think we’re even worse than children of Neptune. Were bad luck.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z With his ability to draw bad luck I didn’t want to take chances. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She might be a dwarf, but she was also a woman, and women were bad luck aboard ship. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For instance, lots of fishing captains won’t let you bring a ripe banana on board because they believe it’s bad luck. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Elya worked hard, but bad luck seemed to follow him everywhere. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z "Oh, that is a piece of bad luck," says Caesar, and there's a real edge of pain in his voice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But right in the middle of the act, we had some bad luck. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was sheer bad luck mat he sat down on the pile of thistles. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Incomplete planning, poor judgment, bad luck, and worse weather conspired against him. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The butcher had sold her during his previous stretch of bad luck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I must be the only one free of your hoodoo bad luck.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z If I walked under a leaning ladder, I would certainly have bad luck. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sure the fall was more bad luck, and he was sure it was because of the stolen twenty. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z "Which is it? Bad judgment? Or bad luck?" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “I’m starting to think birthdays are bad luck.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s bad luck to talk that way, seaweed brain.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Berkner speculates that this is what happened to the great reptiles; their size may have been all right for a richly oxygenated atmosphere, but they had the bad luck to run out of air. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometime he bad like any child. But I don’t yell at miracle baby. That bad luck.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was said that if you heard one owl it meant nothing at all, but if you heard more than one, it meant bad luck. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean tricks like...giving somebody bad luck or something like that. Or make someone scared of you.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Why don’t I care one iota about the bad luck that might befall me? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “It's our bad luck they had a photographer hanging around doing nothing they could send out to take a picture of you laying in the street like a drunk bum.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know about my stroke of bad luck.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “Indeed we did. However, not even that bit of bad luck can derail our juggernaut!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Some of the town kids, not knowing it was bad luck to catch the carp, would scoop them out of the low waters and toss the fish upon the sand bars. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was bad luck. Now you know this dressing’s got to come off.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was bad luck, bad fortune, freakish to the point of being too scary to contemplate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Eric is meeting us there,” Caroline said, “since it’s bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “She hasn’t come back. Good riddance to bad luck, I say.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They came in sets of five, since four was bad luck. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “That was a little noncommittal, in terms of good or bad luck, but it’ll have to do.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir, there’s a shadow of bad luck all over you. First your daddy leaves; then your mama dies. Now poor, stupid Junior.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Do you know,” she said, “why I think we’re having such bad luck this time around?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “And he don’t like me in his car when he does anyway. He says I give him bad luck.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z "Don't you think it was bad luck to meet so many lions?" said Shasta. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z We still do not know what causes the difference of outcomes between these three women—but it is some combination of age, exposures, other genes, and bad luck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z People are so wildly different, and it’s hard to know when genetics or environment or just bad luck is decisive. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “All my life they told me that butterflies at night bring bad luck.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “If you help us, your name goes on the key, too. You couldn’t engrave it yourself, though. It’s bad luck. Who else at the store does engravings?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Arthur said with a sigh: “It was because you got both blows on the same place. That was bad luck.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seven years’ bad luck,” she says, shaking her head. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z But there were rumors about Spares being bad luck, and Ravenskillians were nothing if not superstitious. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I swear I can almost hear that new mother let out a sigh of relief, as if she can't wait to get her baby away from me and whatever bad luck or germs I carry. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And over and over again: they were spirits, it was bad luck to talk to them, they came from the fairy world. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I think it’s bad luck to talk about it. I don’t need that kind of luck.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Something always stopped him: bad luck, a racial barrier, a law, his own vanity or arrogance or fear of losing face. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She thinks I may be catching, like a disease or any form of bad luck. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The old woman worried aloud to her daughter that the guests might die in her house; this kind of thing was felt to be bad luck. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I’ve been nothing but bad luck to them since I came.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever. Anyway, something dramatic can happen and the whole thing will turn around. Then you’ll have as much good luck as you had bad luck.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Had I been at home that afternoon and not with Zephyr raining down bad luck, I know everything would’ve been different. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I hope it brings both of them bad luck. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “We don’t have bad luck enough you want to sell the Patriarch?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "We'll get you a full write-up of what happened, but it's definitely not your fault. Mark stresses that every time it comes up. It was just bad luck. "Take some time to absorb this. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “A stolen lucky charm," he always claimed, “brings only bad luck. Everybody knows that." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z In the teeth of every difficulty, in spite of inexperience, of primitive implements, of bad luck and of Snowball’s treachery, the work had been finished punctually to the very day! Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He had analyzed the abortive party and found that a misfortune had crept into every crevice, that bad luck had come up like hives on the evening. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He again repeated that it was bad luck. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Indeed, Adams’s string of bad luck or poor timing, call it what you will, persisted to the end. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I didn’t bring the bad luck to us, no matter how much it felt that way. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “All the other scythes must see me as very bad luck. After all, I’ve gone through two scythes in one year. I suppose this nullifies my apprenticeship.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Other board games, such as Trouble and Sorry, were also problematic: If a touch of bad luck stymied his plans, he became angry and would abandon the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You think a person can be bad luck?” he asked. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But bad luck trails them on the trip back to Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You have to tell me why it’s bad luck to walk under a ladder.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z But that’s the kind of luck we have—dumb dead relatives who go outta their way to interrupt your good-night’s sleep to give you a lucky number that only brings you bad luck. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z For six years, everyone in the kingdom had bad luck. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess she thought the very proximity of a Jew brought bad luck. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “She’s the goddess of luck. Whatever happens on her feast day can affect the entire rest of the year. She can grant the camp good luck... or really bad luck.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Spilling sugar. Spilling salt is bad luck, but sugar...” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Maybe he’d had his one and only turn of bad luck. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Otherwise, you might end up bringing bad luck to your own self.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z His relationships were stormy and plagued with bad luck. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Mama says that was the poor woman’s bad luck, because now she has got to go right on tending after her husband and her seven or eight children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If he pulled something off, that was smart; if he failed, that was bad luck. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He might have had the bad luck to catch the only pessimistic scientist on TV. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The only children whose genders she hadn’t divined were her own, because it was bad luck for a mother to plumb the mysteries of her own womb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Someone had told her that stepping on the white ones was bad luck. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z She tied pretty red yarn around its tail to neutralize the bad luck. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever the weather would turn nasty, one or another Sherpa was apt to point up at the clouds boiling heavenward and earnestly declare, “Somebody has been sauce-making. Make bad luck. Now storm is coming.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She says real actors will never say the name Macbeth out loud, because it’s bad luck. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was just bad luck, or a lack of preparation, or both, that led to the little flaws undermining the Suzanne Farrell Ballet program Friday night at the Kennedy Center. Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Atmosphere came late to the party 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Guthrie’s April trip to Cuba began with a bit of bad luck: She dropped her camera and broke the light meter. The 2015 Travel photo contest announces its winners and finalists 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z All this weighs pretty heavily on Petty, who worries that his bad luck is not just a slump, but an irreversible trend toward desperation. Richard Lange's 'The Smack' is refreshingly realistic L.A. Noir 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z You are told – repeatedly – that it’s “just bad luck”, “just one of those things”, “just nature’s way”. My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Most of the songs on that first album were about bad luck and uncertainty and lostness – that's why she became queen of everything – but track eight made me cry that day more than the others. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z She had just plugged a nice middle-aged Boston woman who had the bad luck to have been, in a former life, a collaborator with the Nazis. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 11: You’re a Monster 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “But at the older ages, it becomes a little more random who is going to die, it’s almost about bad luck.” Is the end nigh?: new blood tests can reveal your life expectancy 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z But in the end it's just another tale of bad eggs, bad choices and bad luck. Crime drama '7 Minutes' packs a lot in, yet remains forgettable 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Was Orson a victim of his bad luck, or the creator of his own bad luck? Director Morgan Neville on “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” and the last years of Orson We... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Court politics and bad luck plunge their household into hard times, and as a portrait of good people in desperate circumstances, "Hara-Kiri" is remarkably sensitive and moving. Takashi Miike's moving tale of 'Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai' 2012-08-10T07:16:04Z But rumors that the diamond brought bad luck to whoever touched it were fueled as the ship carrying it back to London was battered by freakish storms and its passengers stricken with cholera. Troubled Jewel in the Crown 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z For years, visitors to this ghost town have learned that bad luck will befall anyone who makes off with an artifact—a curse that is lifted only when the piece of contraband is returned. These Are America's Coolest Ghost Towns 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z "You never know what horrible fate your bad luck saved you from," is one of many philosophical lines about luck and fate in the slick but satisfying thriller, "Bullet Train." Brad Pitt hops aboard the ridiculous, rollicking "Bullet Train" packed with gleefully violent stars 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z He was also the victim of bad luck, notably when Howard Hughes, the egomaniacal owner of RKO studios, took against They Live By Night, shelving it for a year before releasing it without fanfare. Farley Granger obituary 2011-03-29T11:59:19Z I'm writing a book now, but it's bad luck to talk about what it is. The walls are closing in on Trump, says “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI” author We... 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z They adorned tombs or were placed along roof lines for decoration, to protect building tiles and to ward off bad luck. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z At the time, I chalked it up to a critic’s occupational hazard — the bad luck of the ticket draw. Perspective | Theater is a haven. But with the coronavirus, it’s become an incubator for our fears. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z But while Jonah Hex's first and last names both indicate bad luck, this Josh Brolin-Megan Fox vehicle could be good luck for all of us. Bounty hunter Jonah Hex rides again in movie, books 2010-06-11T22:40:00Z The pair try many references to good and bad luck — rubbing rabbit’s feet, walking under ladders, breaking mirrors — but nothing fits. A low-key Memphis guitar legend builds on musical legacy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The story she tells is one of loss, subterfuge and bad luck. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z We still don't know who the original inhabitants of the island were, why Hurley's lottery numbers were bad luck or what the hell that giant foot statue was about. J.J. Abrams still smarts from "Lost" finale criticism 2011-08-04T23:05:00Z Weller’s frustration doesn’t derive entirely from his bad luck at cards, of course; as Fonsia draws him out, we learn of his disappointing career and less than fulfilled personal life. Review: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Shuffle Emotions in ‘The Gin Game’ 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Such bad luck was typical of obstacles that Bruckner, born in 1824, endured all his life, beginning with childhood poverty and the death of his father, a schoolteacher, when Anton was 13. Why Seattle Symphony’s next program has just one piece 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z “Dubliners,” his story collection, had the bad luck to be issued a few days before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the start of World War I. It sold only a few hundred copies. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z MythTrusters: Excitable Guy: Is it true that a broken mirror causes seven years of bad luck? Style Invitational Week 1131: One man’s trash 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Right, just like the time you made everyone walk backward around the O.R. to ward off bad luck. A New ‘M*A*S*H’ Scene: Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J. 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z But after our bad luck the previous day, we were treated to what LouAnn said was one of the warmest, calmest days of the year. A Family Returns to Montana ‘Ruts’ and a Million-Dollar View 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z And it makes sense: pop culture reflects turbulent times, like a shattered mirror promising a lot more than seven years of bad luck. Farewell Jane the Virgin: the best possible antidote to TV's bleak streak 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z He had a lot on his mind, I know, but he acted like it was a jinx or bad luck to even discuss the possibility that the execution would happen. Our last visit, on death row 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z But he also ended this glimpse at their run of bad luck with high-stepping mirth and one of the most joyous scenes in modern movies. Stripped of its cheekiness, Hulu's "The Full Monty" transforms from a movie comedy into a TV slog 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z I am a girl with very bad luck. Anonymous Stories for the Instagram Age 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z It was considered bad luck just to meet the executioner on the street. Oliver Pötzsch: German Author Finds International Success on Amazon 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Big Star were decades ahead of their time, in some way, even if they got there thanks to nervous breakdowns and bad luck rather than solely relying on genius and foresight. Big Star: The Ultimate American Pop Band 2013-05-02T17:14:30Z It might bring bad luck, and break the spell, or possibly even anger God. Perspective | One thing made the difference for Momma’s turkey: Her magic pan 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Charged with solving the murder of a Japanese student, Bruce eventually stumbles onto the perpetrators, less from sterling detective work than from dumb bad luck. REVIEW: Can Filth Live Down to Its Title? 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The fact they are nothing like that is just bad luck. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z And some actors believe that it's bad luck to put shoes on the table, while others believe it's unlucky to leave them on the floor. Should Alan Cumming beware the curse of Macbeth? 2013-04-16T15:03:45Z My grandmother followed her own particular mixture of Buddhist and folk beliefs: no washing your hair on New Year’s day, or sweeping the floor or throwing the garbage, since that was equivalent to bad luck. Lunar New Year: A feast for the gods and family 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z And even when the bad luck is devastating, they dust themselves off and inventively move on. ‘Lucky Us’ by Amy Bloom, a Tale of the 1940s 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z People say, “Oh he had such bad luck.” The Innocence Project's Deirdre Enright Tells Serial Fans What's Next for Adnan's Case 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z And though we got to this “pivotal moment” with “a little bit of bad luck and bad timing”, Oliver continued, the rank wrangling of the supreme court disproportionately rightward has been a long time coming. John Oliver on Amy Coney Barrett's likely confirmation: 'It's going to hurt for a long time' 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Sentiment was very positive for most of the night as people found "Drake from State Farm" funny, until some users brought up the "Drake curse" that is supposedly bad luck for sports teams. Drake and Jake, Disney, and Dew — which ads won the Super Bowl, and which fell flat 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z My situation is a result of poor choices and bad luck. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Can’t keep up with the Joneses in their fancy, new car 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z It is always possible it’s a run of bad luck, yes, but if you don’t at least look for common themes in you, the risk of a fifth bailout is a real one. Carolyn Hax: Wife who cheated can’t confront the stress 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z But you don't live your life by percentages: your life is 100% yours – genes, good and bad luck, roads not taken, all included. Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes by Tim Spector – review 2012-08-08T09:30:03Z It was just Mr. Hara’s good luck, or bad luck, that the program he played included the piece. 2010-01-13T22:17:00Z “I originally thought it was my own bad luck,” Ms. Allred said, as her daughter poked her fork at her salad and kept an eye on her mother’s face. The Avenger: Gloria Allred 2010-06-18T22:27:00Z That Cassidy didn’t have a record label was part bad luck and part her own choice. The story behind the gigs that helped launch the legend of Eva Cassidy 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z They began as a way of warding off bad luck and epidemics. Japan fireworks makers to light up night skies at secret time to cheer nation 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z For some, it's the only job they've held in lives of few opportunities and much bad luck. Documentary about Brazil dump vies for Oscar 2011-02-23T17:55:27Z Llewyn rattles round Manhattan, sucking up his persistent bad luck with groggy resignation. Oscar Isaac: 'The irony is not lost on me. Being celebrated for playing someone who wasn't' 2013-05-23T18:30:01Z “Boston Med” also subtly draws a line between scenarios of hideous bad luck and mindless self-destruction, the latter weighing down a stressed hospital staff unfairly. | 'Boston Med': Inside Boston Hospitals, Where Reality Is Real 2010-06-23T23:58:00Z Tony had a psychedelic experience and he began to realise that the death of Christopher was the end of his bad luck phase. James Gandolfini remembered by The Sopranos creator David Chase 2013-06-26T17:47:50Z “I’m on a streak of bad luck,” he said. Love’s Road Home 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z If her name and her films have virtually disappeared from history, that’s partly due to institutional sexism, no doubt, and partly to bad luck and bad timing. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z Two others just disappeared without a word.It’s a hard thing to explain, but the feeling was just: “So-and-so’s gone, that’s bad luck.” Experience: I survived 15 days adrift on a raft 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z This family saga, featuring a Korean War veteran and his wife in the world of Kentucky moonshiners, is as dark as the title implies — violence and bad luck abound — but it is also profoundly humane. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Two closing sections, each with its own narrator, show us a mob boss first poisoned and then incinerated, so his death will seem like bad luck. ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ cuts a swath across Jamaican history Many Thais believe it is a time to literally 'float away' bad luck. Thai police take wind out of sails of festival goers with death threat 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z No Room at the Inn” — which, like season one’s third episode, focused on the seemingly boundless bad luck that befalls Matt Jamison — was a pulse-pounder: intense, semi-violent, and surprising in scene after scene. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2, Episode 5: Laughing With God 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z He was a man with very good luck, or very bad luck. 2010-01-20T05:19:00Z It would be tempting to chalk the snubs up to bad luck. Perspective | A ‘Girls Trip’ snub and the troubling black woman-savior trope that bedevils politics and Hollywood 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Their mix of bad luck and poor choices sends them into a situation that seems comically dire. Haves and have-nots 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z This family have had so much bad luck since the Honda plant closed down that they make Wile E Coyote look like Bill Gates. Property shows: room for improvement? 2011-08-10T13:27:22Z Lennon himself described how he experienced both good and bad luck as a film-maker. Farewell to Peter Lennon, whose only film was worth a dozen by a lesser man 2011-03-21T14:17:57Z Don’t talk about bad luck or injured teammates. Perspective | Losing gracefully is one of the most important lessons from playing sports 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z This fire seems like bad luck, reported without any detailed facts to point to a pattern of issues. The Day My Megabus Caught Fire 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z They say it is bad luck for two young lovers named Jack and Rose to share a watercraft together, for reasons that I imagine will not become clear for many years. ArtsBeat: ‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: Letters of Love and Not 2014-02-10T03:00:57Z “Or somebody who has very bad luck in love or business … they would go to a curandero who will take the ayahuasca, give the patient ritual baths and energy, and protect them.” Peru’s ayahuasca industry booms as westerners search for alternative healing 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The Army and the war provided the grand backdrop for my father’s dramatic episodes of bad luck, but he did not fit in there. My Absent Father 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Red Alert Lunar New Year is wrapped in red: According to Chinese legend, the color symbolizes fire, which drives away bad luck. Bronson van Wyck's Tips for a Colorful Chinese New Year Dinner Party 2014-01-30T05:00:00Z This is usually done to rid homes of bad luck, according to Britannica. Chinese Lunar New Year: The history and how it's celebrated 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Was this bad luck, or might the challenges favour larger contestants? The Door 2010-04-07T23:05:00Z His presidential library makes the case that barring a stroke of bad luck, he could be right up there with the great ones. Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Is that part of some grand nefarious scheme, or an out-of-the-blue case of bad luck? Unknown Review: Liam Neeson Gets Re-Taken 2011-02-19T02:45:00Z In the short term, I sold my skis and Emma wouldn’t go away with me the following year: she thought I was bad luck. Experience: I broke my back twice 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Mike’s new car is bad luck twice over. ‘First Date’ Review: Modern Action Romance Propelled by a ’65 Chrysler 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Both the Walking Dead universe and works like Stephen King's "The Stand" tend to portray a bleaker and more sinister bungling government than anything we have had the bad luck to experience. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 8: The Zombie Code 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z If there’s no emotional or other obstacle — just bad luck or flagging interest — then please write back for Part 2. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Husband agrees to get another job, but shows no signs of trying 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The infamous and superstitious date is notoriously known for being one of bad luck, so some people avoid fear-induced activities on the date. 13 surprising facts about Friday the 13th: Demystifying the superstitious date 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z And so we as readers wonder: How much of what happens is truly attributable to the dark magic and how much of it is self-sabotage and bad luck? One Family, and One Multigenerational Curse, in the Texas Borderlands 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Her beautiful, fiercely protective mother, Ella, marries Harold, and mother and daughter trade in their itinerant, bad luck lives for a “vacuum of wealth” in Manhattan. Review | A celebration of that famous pink hat and other best books for young readers 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z “The press always compared my family to the Kennedys — so much bad luck,” says Elkann, dressed all in black, her chocolate curls punctuated by a single lock of blue at the nape. T Magazine: Portrait of a Lady 2014-02-15T00:16:46Z And after meeting for the first time, they knew their initial bad luck in the Cleveland dating scene was about to end. On Love: Rebecca Cook and Jeremy Davis Brides of this time would be carried over a threshold by the groom as an attempt to ward off malevolent spirits or bad luck, The Knot reports. Ring video shows man carrying bride over threshold 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z “There are huge swaths of white Americans who started with nothing and will end with nothing because of bad choices, bad luck, bad opportunities, and no support. It’s not just a black thing.” Lonnae O’Neal: White readers talk back 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z And the superstition about bad luck applies only to theatre not cinema. Harvey Weinstein's Cannes gala turns tricky for the Guardian 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Terrible weather, miscommunications and bad luck made the project a smoky semi-disaster, and one that plagues Ms. Pasternak to this day. A Den Mother for Art Spectacles 2013-04-26T22:51:56Z He explains that the episodic migraines I’ve had my whole life can develop into a chronic condition through medication overuse – all that Advil – or bad luck. Life with migraines: ‘It feels like a creature is pushing itself through my skull’ | Anna Altman 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z At the beginning of Season 5, the long-suffering Sansa had the look of a young woman ready to leave her bad luck and bad marriages behind and move on to better things. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6: Here’s Where We Left Off 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z All the old farmer's friends came around to exclaim what bad luck this was. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z Considered a harbinger of bad luck, Friday the 13th is very misunderstood. 13 surprising facts about Friday the 13th: Demystifying the superstitious date 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Do you have the sense that those locations were preferable to others, or that it was extremely bad luck to end up there instead of, say, Connecticut? “The most ludicrous scenes of ‘Orange is the New Black’ are the most realistic”: My time in federal prison 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z He asked if I were seeing anyone, if I were in love, and I told him that I have bad luck with men. Modern Love: Modern Love: Our Way of Saying Goodbye 2010-05-28T23:08:00Z In the stoic, matter-of-fact, devastating “Lydia,” Margo Price sings about a pregnant woman at a clinic, thinking back through a life of poverty, addiction and bad luck, telling herself, “Just make a decision.” Bruce Springsteen’s Exuberant Soul Cover, and 10 More New Songs 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z "System disharmony halts the flow of energy, slowing down intruders with illness and bad luck," Treholt explains. The trippiest martial arts movie ever? 2011-08-27T15:01:00Z When it was first announced, Luck was described as “a comedy that pulls back the curtain on the millennia-old battle between the organisations of good luck and bad luck that secretly affects our daily lives”. Emma Thompson quits film after John Lasseter joins production 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z “Mice have really bad luck in books,” admits her friend, a human boy. Of Mice and Men 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z After many difficulties and bad luck with publishers, Dubliners was published in June 1914. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z And if bad luck should lay my strengthInto the shallow grave,Remember all the good you can;Don't forget my love. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z The omen that breaking a mirror causes seven years bad luck is Southern. Perspective | Reese Witherspoon is selling frilly Southern womanhood, and I’ve been sucked in, y’all 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z It signifies the end of Carnival, cleanses the island of bad luck and lets revelers keep on jamming. Carnival Roundup: Carnival: A Party to Remember, an Island at a Time 2012-11-09T19:19:31Z A story so full of bad luck that it’s hard to believe it could ever happen. 'The clock of his life was counting down' – loving and losing my ex 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z “It seems like it would be bad luck to talk about it.” “Stage fright”: Mark Twain coined the term and gave Tom Sawyer a bad case of it 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z But not everyone is yet convinced that all of Princess’s misadventures are purely bad luck. Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth? 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Last year, The Artist broke the bad luck cycle—taking the top prize at both the Indie Spirits and the Oscars. Moonrise Kingdom: Is the Indie Award Darling Headed for an Oscar? 2012-11-28T13:00:33Z "There are some bits of bad luck associated with it," he said. Hobbit filming finally under way 2011-03-21T11:16:04Z And that seems like bad luck to begin with. Josh Ritter preaches his “messianic oracular honky tonk”: “I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The actors run with these characters, and she has made her almost gallant in her attempts to overcome her own bad luck. ArtsBeat: Julian Fellowes on Viewer Criticism and ‘Downton Abbey’s’ Future 2014-02-24T03:30:09Z Who don’t know how to wear a bolo tie properly or know that it’s bad luck to put a cowboy hat on a bed. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z None of us knows what bad luck is. Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z His bad luck in Singapore would seem to be due to his high school friend, unlikely savior and bête noire, Keith Stolarsky, a wealthy real estate developer. Alexander Chee on Jonathan Lethem's 'A Gambler's Anatomy': 'Oceans 11' meets 'Escape to Witch Mountain' meets a meningioma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z A: Wow, talk about a streak of bad luck. Squish, squish: Hotels.com left us waiting in the rain for our room 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z It defines who we are, and it is sheer luck — or bad luck. Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z A battle of nerves that is vulnerable to miscalculation, misperception and sheer bad luck. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “It was bad luck, but it’s life,” he said. Richard Lewis, Diagnosed With Parkinson’s, Will Retire From Stand-Up Comedy 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z “The best ones are about failure and bad luck and inadequacy. And this film is about the transience of all the success that went before.” Steve Coogan: ‘Maybe I've just got flabby and middle-aged' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Not every single mother struggles to find child care, works low wage jobs to support a family and hovers just one piece of bad luck away from catastrophe. Motherlode Blog: Why Are We Talking About Wendy Davis’s Choices? 2014-01-29T22:47:36Z When you look at the science, you see it's not bad luck but a systemic problem that underlines their experiences. "Picture a Scientist" examines the hostile, sexist STEM environments that drive women to leave 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Poor Prince Siegfried: such bad luck with women. Review | At Wolf Trap, a ‘Swan Lake’ with streaks of light 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z He’s the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore. Review: To Shill a Mockingjay - Part 1 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Shaky financing, the defection of the original director just before filming was set to begin, and a run of bad luck at festivals in Europe and the United States spoiled the film’s chances for distribution. ‘Sins of a Father’ Resuscitates a 1991 Film Starring Alan Bates 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z “He had more bad luck than any human being I have ever known, red or white, and you can’t beat that for making a man likable.” Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z And here come the friends to commiserate with the farmer and curse the bad luck that had ever brought these accursed wild horses on to his farm. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z Just be sure not to shoplift: bad luck supposedly befalls anyone who makes off with anything from the site. These Are America's Coolest Ghost Towns 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The pair then had the bad luck to face off in Round 2; DerHohannesian won, sending Lin to the “reload” bracket, and its longer road to the final. Big Buck Hunter: Meet the world’s best fake marksmen 2012-11-25T16:00:00Z Let’s just hope we don’t fall victim to the same blunt weapon for no reason other than bad luck. Internet Mob Justice Isn't Justice At All 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z For his bad luck, he spent nearly three weeks in jail. César Aira’s Infinite Footnote to Borges 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Call me superstitious, but I think it’s bad luck. Frequent Flier: Even James Bond Can Use Some Help 2011-05-16T18:00:11Z Which, as Titania’s bad luck would have it, is a man named Bottom, who currently has the head of a donkey. Shakespeare on drugs: The secret narcotic history of the world’s greatest playwright 2014-04-23T15:15:00Z It’s based on his own screenplay for the movie, about an adopted boy who, bad luck for everyone involved, is the Antichrist. Good Paperback Vibrations 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Bishop herself had been prone to “bad luck—but it couldn’t be helped, really.” Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z James was an unwanted child, despised by his father, and subject to bad luck. This Week in Fiction: Annie Proulx Discusses Her Upcoming Novel, “Barkskins” 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Her prized anonymity was shattered, and her bad luck continued. Queen of Cartels: most famous female leader of Mexico's underworld speaks out 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The omission of “Life Itself” seems the most curious, though, and continues a run of bad luck in the Oscar process for Mr. James. Oscar Nominations 2015: Academy Surprisingly Overlooks Ebert Film 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z And I just took it as bad luck, basically. Author Iain Banks: In his own words 2013-06-09T15:43:47Z But it's also bad luck to have a woman on your boat. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z And all come with the inevitable complications of heists gone wrong: oversights and double crosses, poor timing and bad luck. It?s All About a Dishonest Day?s Work 2010-10-01T04:19:00Z I would have taken it as bad luck and found a new place to stay. Can Our Lease Weather Unrequited Love? 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z That’s another stroke of bad luck in a movie whose worst misfortune was to stumble into the middle of anguished national debate about the kind of killer Jack Reacher means only as a plot device. Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Picks the Wrong Week for a Thriller About a Mass Killing 2012-12-18T14:00:44Z “Well, it’s not just bad luck, because you are more likely to suffer from bad luck if you’re older,” she says. ‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’ 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z And partly it’s sheer bad luck—the bad luck that her voice wasn’t a little bit better, that her career hasn’t taken off. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley on Fiction as Anthropology 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The possibility loomed in my mind that our miscarriages really had been “just” bad luck all along. My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But this strategy is so vulnerable to miscalculation, misperception and sheer bad luck, that it is not a very reassuring one. Waves of trouble 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Julian does believe that some people have bad luck, and Edith is one of them, but they were really good story lines. Laura Carmichael Discusses Edith’s Evolution on ‘Downton Abbey’ 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z What happened to him was almost inexplicable, a cruel combination of good luck, bad luck and the kind of disappointment that would have overwhelmed me even at my most brashly defiant. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z So are we to assume that we happened to catch Frank during a run of spectacularly bad luck? 'True Detective' Season 2 Finale Recap: In Search of a Better World 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z But the duo may be able to turn bad luck into good and realize their hero potential by taking on the creatures. New this week: ‘Ice Age,’ Kevin James and ‘The Gilded Age’ 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z And, it is odd, no, to talk of "luck" in meeting Soon-Yi, and yet not acknowledge the bad luck that this entailed? Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z Our lack of success generationally is not caused by a sense of entitlement or a string of bad luck, it is that we are timid. Millennials! Let’s battle the boomers and Gen Xers — who had it easy compared to us 2014-01-19T16:30:00Z There are three main categories of CJD: spontaneous, which occurs simply by bad luck with age; familial, which is due to inherited genes; and acquired, which is transmitted in some way. Can people catch Alzheimer’s? Possibility cannot be ruled out 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The old farmer just shrugs and says: "Good luck, bad luck, who knows?" David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z There are many superstitions about mirrors – apparently actors believe, for instance, that it's bad luck to see their reflection over the shoulder of another person. Frankenstein on stage: a case of double vision? 2011-02-17T14:48:11Z Because sailors whistle to operate a boat’s booms and jibs, whistling on a stage is considered bad luck. Twyla Tharp’s Premiere Week: The Stage Ship Sails 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z He added that the international market for a former grave marker might be limited; in some cultures, he said, tomb artifacts are considered “bad luck.” Rodin Bronze From Family Plot Is Heading to Auction 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z So what happened next was just bad luck. Experience: I fell down a canyon 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The probable explanation of these not-quite mysteries: a gay man had had the bad luck to pick up a sociopath. The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z When two of the Athenian housewives travel to London on a shopping and sales expedition, they are careful to cross the store threshold with their right foot; in Greece, a left-footed entrance is bad luck. ‘Real Housewives’ in Greece, Israel and Canada 2013-06-06T12:00:01Z Getting bitten by a virus-carrying mosquito seemed like the ultimate bad luck, the worst possible lottery ticket. The year of no Halloween 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z At any rate, “it’s bad luck to change the name of a restaurant,” says Giovanni, a former maitre d’ at the chic Tosca downtown who repeats the role here. Review | Quattro Osteria puts fun on the plate and in the room 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The deer on the grill is just the beginning of a run of bad luck. 'Tammy' not much fun, and a talented McCarthy needs to wise up 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z But it was also because, like Dr Feelgood's Lee Brilleaux, Black Sabbath seemed to believe that rock'n'roll was fundamentally "music about bad luck", a conviction they clung to in the teeth of vast commercial success. Black Sabbath: 13 – review 2013-06-06T14:29:01Z What set Mr. Lowe on the path to his current sound was a run of bad luck in the early 1990s. Nick Lowe, Back With a New Album, ?That Old Magic? 2011-09-13T19:59:12Z “There is a strong belief among Cambodians that looting is a cursed business and possession of looted objects only leads to bad luck and hardship,” Mr. Gordon said. Cambodia Says Looter Helping It Reclaim Stolen Artifacts Has Died 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Downhearted and scared, Tairo takes to the road in search of Mr. Robin while Wendy, the circus’s contortionist, seeks a variety of mild occult solutions to Tairo’s seeming streak of bad luck. Review: Out of Luck, and Seeking a Strongman in ‘Mister Universo’ 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Despite Mystery Brewing’s earning national acclaim for brewing a fund-raising “protest beer” in dissent of North Carolina’s contentious “bathroom bill,” it closed in October, citing undercapitalization and bad luck. Craft Beer Looks Beyond ‘Young White Dudes With Beards’ 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z But poor business outcomes constitute only a fraction of Aldo’s chronic bad luck. ‘Quicksand’ review: A zany, and trying, tale of a man who can’t catch a break 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z A former James Brown impersonator with a suitcase full of bad luck, Bradley's fortunes took an upswing when Rolling Stone placed No Time For Dreaming in their top 50 albums of 2011. TV highlights 14/06/2013 2013-06-14T06:28:43Z Regardless if you do not believe in all the hoopla surrounding the date and its superstitious origins and implications, you may have experienced the woes of this bad luck Friday one way or another. 13 surprising facts about Friday the 13th: Demystifying the superstitious date 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Removing black sand or lava rocks is thought to cause bad luck under what is known locally as “Pele’s curse”. Jennifer Lawrence offends with story about 'butt-scratching' on sacred rocks 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z It’s “Confirmation’s” bad luck to arrive just as “The People v. O.J. Simpson” has ended. The Anita Hill saga was so gripping in 1991. Why is HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ so flat? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z But Notaro is more than the sum of her bad luck. Comic Tig Notaro: This hot property is more than the sum of her bad luck 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z He focuses throughout on actions, of his oil-field “brothers” like Huck, a charismatic giant with a fantastic knack for trouble, and of his real family, marked by bad luck and a bad father. From an Artist’s Life in Brooklyn to North Dakota’s Oil Fields 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z After the wedding, bad luck ensues: Bella is soon carrying a wee vampire in her belly, yet determined to give birth at any cost. 'Breaking Dawn ? Part I' shows stretch marks 2011-11-17T19:18:04Z She and her crippled brother are among the last descendants of a once-regal family, now reduced, through bad luck and bad choices, to selling off their antique furniture to pay medical bills. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Viewers stayed away in alarming numbers, and NBC has to wonder whether it was extraordinarily bad luck or if the brand of a once-unifying event for tens of millions of people is permanently tainted. Once savvy, NBC’s Olympics deal is shakier after Beijing 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z If that is true, you had particularly bad luck. Help! It’s Been More Than 2 Years and I Still Don’t Have the Refund 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z It isn’t because The Terrorists put the names of all the countries into a hat and — bad luck for us — randomly picked out the piece of paper that said “The United States.” Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z Fuller’s bad luck continued last summer when she suffered a stress fracture in her foot because of running too much. Perspective | Sarah Fuller makes a mark for women in football, but her story is an example for all 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z There’s no place in this sorority for our narrator, with her bad luck and bad skin and inability to hold her liquor. Review: Vendela Vida’s ‘The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty’ Offers Freedom to Escape 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Michael Dorman plays a young intelligence officer with deadly skills and bad luck who deals with his angst by writing and performing hilariously sincere and morbid folk songs. Reviews: Amazon Pilots Include a Revolt and the Supernatural 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z As for his prospects on Oscar night, he said he's not going to jump the gun: "It's bad luck if you start over-preparing." Oscar nominees luncheon: Memorable quotes from Redmayne, Moore, Keaton 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Among the reasons are simple bad luck, a lack of ambition or ego, and, perhaps, limited room at the very top for black female singers. Backup singers take center stage in new documentary film 2013-06-14T19:30:42Z For once, though, Thicke’s bad luck affects someone other than himself. Robin Thicke's Legal Defeat Could Have a Chilling Effect on Music 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z But the results did not predict bad luck. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Guess what? Newspapers have published fake news for ages. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z To mention its name in the theatre is considered bad luck and it is always called the Scottish play. Something wicked: the best Macbeths in clips 2013-02-28T12:09:09Z The magpies of the title are a reference to the nursery rhyme correlating the number of magpies seen with good or bad luck: Maintaining the "Magpie Murders" main title mystery: The clues, the murders and a bird masquerade 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z From his perch on Rainier, Schurman saw a growing need to train mountaineers capable of rescuing people who, through ignorance or bad luck, got lost or injured. We celebrate the outdoors right here in town at Camp Long 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z I think one thing is, a lot of normal things are made to look like bad luck when they are making you into a suspect. The Innocence Project's Deirdre Enright Tells Serial Fans What's Next for Adnan's Case 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The Numbers, which first appeared when Hurley won the lotto but found bad luck followed in their wake, became an integral part of the Lost mythology. 10 Years in the Making: Celebrate 'Lost' Day 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z It is bad luck for Wright to be opening his fairytale flick right after the abysmal Red Riding Hood, but the problem is bigger than timing. In Hanna, Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett Put a Feminine Twist on the Bourne Formula 2011-04-07T09:20:00Z I wait for someone to hold the door closed, to tell the groom not to look because it’s bad luck. Desert bloom: My wedding day, inside a California prison 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z The farmer only shrugged and said, "Good luck, bad luck, who knows?" David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z “I don’t think we feel in the family that we have bad luck,” she says. Corin Redgrave: He lost his memory of our life together 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z "Good luck, bad luck, who knows?" is all the farmer says in reply, shrugging. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z She’s had such bad luck, and then everyone decided she was mad because she shaved her head? T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z We’re not superstitious people, but we wonder if tampering with a sacred text has anything to do with the string of bad luck that Mr. Jackson has experienced during production of his “Hobbit” films. ArtsBeat: Tempting Fate and Tolkien Purists, Peter Jackson Adds Orlando Bloom to 'The Hobbit' 2011-05-27T18:57:42Z His bad luck: the gentleman opposing him is not Barack Obama but Denzel Washington. Review: The Equalizer Pits Denzel Washington Against the Entire Russian Mob. Guess Who Wins? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Paul Davis, a nerdy professor at West Haven College in Connecticut, has the bad luck to come across Kenneth Hoffman, a fellow faculty member, trying to dispose of the bodies of two women. Many Sinners, Very Few Saints 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Our generation’s bad luck is, apparently, not new. Gen X Women: More Opportunities, Less Satisfaction? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z I slid to the bottom through a mix of my own decisions and some seriously bad luck. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z That was to take care of bad weather, punctures, blockades, transport strikes and sheer bad luck. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z As bad luck would have it, there were some rowdy soldiers on holiday at the Patria at the same time as us. The Birthday Party and the Airman by ?ukasz D?bski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 2011-04-08T10:22:00Z Han Solo laments his own bad luck as the Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive fails, in Star Wars. May the 4th be with you: the 40 best lines from the Star Wars saga 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z In Spain and parts of Latin America, 12 green grapes are eaten exactly at midnight to ward off bad luck. 5 foods that are traditionally eaten for luck in the New Year 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z He’s a man who has attracted bad luck, he’s a noble man, he’s a modest man, he’s in the shadow of his wonderful father.” The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Mason’s career went into a slump, punctuated by bizarre instances of bad luck. Jackie Mason, 93, Dies; Turned Kvetching Into Comedy Gold 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine her banning the color green from productions because it was bad luck, as Ms. Stewart did. Mia Yoo Steps Into Ellen Stewart?s Shoes at La MaMa 2011-10-15T22:30:24Z And while other comedians show us persons tormented by bad luck and enemies and so on, Bob and Ray’s characters threaten to wreck themselves and their surroundings with their own stupidity. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Proves that even smart rockers with a great work ethic can suffer “This Is Spinal Tap” levels of bad luck. Movie Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Sallis is one of the last of a particular line of British actors for whom the bad luck of the second world war brought the compensation of being able to fulfill acting ambitions. Peter Sallis: veteran actor with charm, presence and an unmistakable voice 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Like something from the mind of Edward Gorey, it’s a record of “three centuries of stray bullets and bad luck.” ‘We have been failing with guns for centuries’: A new book chronicles lives lost 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z While red is classic, in a string of bad luck — which turned out to be good luck — I could only find orange for my early tests. This 5-ingredient roasted pepper soup is winter magic 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z In the Louvre they sustained some bad luck; A suicide bomber had struck. Style Invitational Week 1400: Back on track 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Then there’s Jefferson Davis Falkins, the actual robber, who has notably bad luck with women. Books of The Times: In Thomas Perry?s ?Strip,? Affable Thugs, Rough Justice 2010-05-26T22:24:00Z We know that disability isn’t the result of bad luck or poor health: it’s the inevitable transformation and breakdown of the body. Life with migraines: ‘It feels like a creature is pushing itself through my skull’ | Anna Altman 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But on reflection, bad luck had met us at the front door. The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Carmichael spoke about Edith’s bad luck, the problem with male editors and sisterly rivalry. Laura Carmichael Discusses Edith’s Evolution on ‘Downton Abbey’ 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z No forced cheerleading, no kidding yourself that his outcome is simply bad luck. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A struggle to find compassion for a dad who brought on health woes 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Court politics and bad luck plunge their household into hard times, and as a portrait of good people in desperate circumstances, “Hara-Kiri” is remarkably sensitive and moving. Movie Review: ‘Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai’ at IFC Center 2012-07-19T21:18:21Z The Social Network is up for eight Oscars including best picture, director and actor "It's bad luck to prepare an acceptance speech, so I don't," he says. Face to face 2011-02-14T08:34:09Z Macbeth has attracted superstition in theatrical circles and it's deemed bad luck to name the play in a theatre. Curse of Macbeth? Actor taken to hospital after Branagh battle 2013-07-15T12:29:23Z In the end, I suppose, it was mostly bad luck.” Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Despite Mr. Damon’s bad luck with poor edits, a spur-of-the-moment good one led to a particularly memorable scene in “The Martian.” Matt Damon: You Could Call Him Down to Earth 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Well, it’s a little bit of bad luck along with a heaping helping of institutional bias. Portia de Rossi is the secret weapon of “Santa Clarita Diet” 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Her death is a touch of bad luck — you never know when a venomous snake will slither underfoot on your wedding day. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z That night, as we ate dinner and then settled in for the nightly vigil, we muttered quiet words of consolation to one another for our bad luck. Chasing the Northern Lights in Alaska 2014-01-03T19:30:21Z “Inequality” begins with a clear statement of the harm done by rising income gaps: they unfairly punish those who suffer bad luck. Mind the gap 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Crippled by alcohol or laziness or bad luck, they have little interest in exposing their failings to each other — or to their perennially disappointed mother, that “impossible woman,” with her unshakable superiority, her proud insularity. Anne Enright draws a rich, Irish family saga in ‘The Green Road’ 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes these omissions are justified by a disparity in skill, but in certain cases bad luck, prejudice or misunderstanding prevented artists from getting recognition. Unheralded Renaissance Painter to Have Major Exhibition at the Frick 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z “I’m having a lot of bad luck healthwise,” he admitted on the phone in his sonorous voice, a voice that made me want to keep listening, no body to get in the way. Modern Love: What a Scale Can?t Measure ? Modern Love 2011-12-01T22:25:17Z It’s a long, spiraling comedy of errors, as gruesomely entertaining as any Hollywood black comedy, featuring incompetence, miscommunication, resentment, foolhardy bravery and bad luck. Television Review | 'Behind Taliban Lines': The Afghan Side of War 2010-02-22T23:24:00Z In high school, Mimi says she had "a run of bad luck" with boys. Once Upon a Secret: My Hidden Affair with JFK by Mimi Alford ? review 2012-02-10T11:00:02Z A rough outing here and there was simply attributed to bad luck or a bad day: that’s just baseball. T Magazine: Little Big Man 2011-03-11T18:01:47Z Calm Guy: I saw a YouTube video where somebody broke a mirror and then had 7 years of bad luck. Style Invitational Week 1131: One man’s trash 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z It's also held to be bad luck to speak the last line of the play during rehearsal. Should Alan Cumming beware the curse of Macbeth? 2013-04-16T15:03:45Z Around them, former team-mates tell of lack of talent, loss of nerve, bad luck and injury. Amphibians; A Doll's House; Julius Caesar ? review 2011-01-16T00:06:01Z But in this, I was ignoring the fact that old people are just as vulnerable to disorder, not to mention happenstance, caprice, and bad luck, as anybody else. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Like: Is the arrival of the Stranger good luck or bad luck? ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 7: Out of the Ashes 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Sports fans have talked for decades about a Sports Illustrated jinx, in which a player’s cover appearance seems to lead to a string of unusual bad luck. Internet doomsday, explained 2012-05-16T11:45:00Z “I’ll transport fake goods or contraband goods, but not dead bodies,” because they bring bad luck, he says. Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z But what, exactly, drives our perception of these actions as stupid mistakes, as opposed to bad luck? The science behind facepalming: Why you make breathtakingly stupid mistakes 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Perhaps all my bad luck is round the corner. Emma Donoghue: ‘I’ve ended up having a family and being a lesbian.' 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z For this bit of bad luck to put “a lot of strain” on anyone else is not a given at all, though — it’s a choice. Carolyn Hax: The high road to dealing with dueling bridesmaid invitations 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z “I was born with bad luck,” he said. He went to Burning Man and never came back 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Bruno becomes more interesting, she grows less so, and still she snivels at center stage, whining about her bad luck and mistreatment. Review: Jill Alexander Essbaum’s ‘Hausfrau,’ a Good Wife, With a Few Caveats 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z "I think it's good luck if you get an Oscar nomination and bad luck if you don't." Dench: Skyfall snub 'a great pity' 2013-01-10T17:09:20Z “Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks to God for all the things we have, despite the bad luck life can bring,” said Ms. Velasco, whom everyone calls Maggie. The American Thanksgiving 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z It was bad luck rather than bad judgment. Alasdair Milne obituary 2013-01-09T19:13:47Z The placebo storyline hangs heavy with the inevitability of bad luck as we listen to the specialist offer hope for her cancer. Fargo recap: season two, episode four – Fear and Trembling 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z I chalked this experience up to bad luck, and continued to only date people with whom I had interesting online conversations. 'This is small talk purgatory': what Tinder taught me about love 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Rather than playing a theatrical stereotype of a drunk, Stritch dug deep into Albee's drama and gave us a woman who stared into her drink when talking about her bad luck with men. Elaine Stritch's originality blazed fiercely on Broadway 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z But a run of bad luck derailed those dreams, sending him to look for work overseas. Facing a labor crisis, South Korea turns to migrants. Why are they more likely to die on the job? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Li earned the nickname “Three Fires Li” and a reputation for bad luck after three fatal fires struck Henan while he was there. Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, dies at 68 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Jackson and Stone are healthy, but injuries and health issues have plagued their room, a rash of bad luck that has rippled across the rest of WSU’s defense. Ahead of ASU matchup, what is WSU doing to plug holes in its run defense? 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s the latest stroke of bad luck for Roff, who suffered an arm injury against Wisconsin on Sept. 9, missed the next three games, then returned Oct. Washington State running back Jaylen Jenkins dismissed for ‘violation of team rules’ 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z But a combination of bad luck, bad debt and a bad credit score priced her out of her apartment in Bellevue, another suburb of Seattle, one of the most expensive housing markets in the country. In Kirkland and across U.S., working people are living out of their cars 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z A ballad laden with so much heartache and bad luck that even Lewis Capaldi would struggle to rouse himself for a few bars. 'Scotland on verge of watershed moment in Spain' 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Li’s reputation for bad luck held as China suffered a series of deadly disasters during his term. Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, dies at 68 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z He was instrumental in making life very uncomfortable for Sheffield United who seem to suffer from a combination of bad luck and horrendous injuries. Who was 'cool as ice'? - Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z "The fact it happened just two weeks after our team was there was completely bad luck". Exclusive: India lake that flooded was poised to get early warning system 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Or perhaps he wanted to make the point that his past injuries were due to bad luck and not a lack of preparation. Hernández: Something's different about Anthony Davis. Is he ready to be LeBron's successor? 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Is it bad selection policy, ill-conceived planning, too many changes of captains and coaches, faulty workload management of players,or just plain bad luck? World Cup 2023: Can India shed the chokers tag in big cricket tournaments? 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z The first-round pick previously flashed frustration at himself for bad pitches, umpires for bad calls and sometimes no one in particular amid bouts of bad luck. Bobby Miller makes case for playoff start, but Dodgers fall to Tigers 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z To celebrate the gallery’s two-year anniversary and this good/bad fortune, Franciose has curated a group show called “Snake Eyes,” a reference to the bad luck of throwing two ones with a pair of dice. Must-see Seattle-area exhibits in October 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z You may have had bad luck with paint in the past. Minimize maintenance on your home's exterior wood by following the instructions 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z “Definitely excited about the next round and the reset, hopefully we will keep from having so much bad luck.” Denny Hamlin doubles down in declaration that this is his year to finally win NASCAR championship 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z Hamlin, on the other hand, had a bit of bad luck Sunday. Reddick rides a fast car and good fortune into the second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z He accuses her of bringing bad luck to the family. Somalis with albinism: Pelted with stones and raw eggs 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z He’s had almost no bad luck — save for a pit lane incident that likely cost him the Indianapolis 500 — and has packed four wins into this impressive season. Palou has 2nd IndyCar title in sight but Scott Dixon in his rearview mirror with 2 races remaining 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Hui said the deaths were a harbinger of bad luck, the person said. How Evergrande’s downfall signaled China’s property crisis 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Following Thanksgiving weekend in 2022, motorists returning to Southern California from Las Vegas had nothing but bad luck as traffic on the main route across the Nevada border backed up for 16 miles. Temporary lane to relieve I-15 traffic between Southern California and Las Vegas 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z Those are signs of bad luck, he said. As oil activities encroach on sacred natural sites, a small Ugandan community feels besieged 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z That night, before going back on shift, Letby exchanges texts with a colleague who commiserates, saying "you seem to be having some very bad luck". The text messages Lucy Letby sent as she murdered babies 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z “You often need to have some force that’s stressing this population. Then there’s often an element of bad luck or some other stressor that comes in. We see that over and over again.” Fossils Buried in LA Tar Pit Show Why Saber-Toothed Cats Blinked Out of Existence 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Some recent visitors to the Las Vegas Strip had bad luck that extended past the casino floor — as guests at seven popular resorts found bed bugs lurking in their rooms, records show. Even posh Vegas hotels have had bed bugs. Here's where 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z "It's really bad luck for Jack, and we send him our very best wishes," he added. England's Van Poortvliet ruled out of World Cup 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Atypical weather conditions conspiring with a healthy dose of bad luck created ideal circumstances for wildfires to ignite. Unusual weather conditions are driving Maui’s wildfires. 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Is it bad luck, or is it a pattern? Bumps in the air: What’s climate change got to do with it? 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z “A lot of bites are just bad luck, and the chance of getting bitten is very small,” he said. Shark! How swimmers can improve their odds of avoiding bites 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z He also had the bad luck to follow Jill Ellis, the winningest coach in U.S. history and just the second manager, male or female, to win consecutive World Cups. Breaking down the top candidates to be the next U.S. women's soccer coach 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z “I put it on the players. I think we’re hitting in some bad luck. It’s kind of unfair to put it on the manager.” Mets owner Steve Cohen addresses trade-deadline deals, thinks team will still compete in 2024 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Atypical weather conditions conspiring with a healthy dose of bad luck created ideal circumstances on Tuesday for wildfires to ignite on Maui and then spread, ravaging the island. Unusual weather conditions are driving Maui’s wildfires. 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Both sides, in different ways, had significant good and bad luck. The unexpected and quirky stats from a brilliant Ashes 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z The film lost its funding, with bad luck and accidents befalling the people who worked on it for years afterward. A genre-hopping novelist reinvents the ghost story as a Mexico City horror film 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z “I think just sitting around with the coaches and just talking, for us to put a good streak together here. We need Geno and some of his bad luck to turn a little bit.” Eugenio Suarez is showing he could be ‘pick to click’ for Mariners in second half 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z That was the case for Tony, a homeless man I met last week in Sacramento, who says he ended up in a tent after “a storm of bad luck.” The truth about our homeless crisis: As Californians age, they are priced out 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z There are some indications they’ve been the victim of bad luck. What happened to the Dodgers pitching? Inside the team's historic struggles 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z “He just had bad luck because the cages were located near his house,” the lawyer said. Addicts Went in for Treatment. Instead They Were Enslaved. 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Yes, he’s had some bad luck and looked sped up in certain leverage situations. Mailbag: How concerned are Mariners with Jarred Kelenic’s recent cold streak? 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The new one had its own bad luck from March 2020 until September 2022, when cracks were found in its support structure. In West Seattle, a rogue sculpture of the infamous Rolf Neslund is saved 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The inning began with some bad luck, when Taylor let a high hop off the outfield turf get over his head for a leadoff triple. Gavin Stone struggles as Dodgers lose a wild one to Rays 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z For Thomas, his bad luck at the Giro continued. Redemption for Roglič as he closes in on Giro d’Italia title despite mechanical problem 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z “We’re owed this kind of bad luck because our excessive good luck had to run out.” Damage delays restart of Italy's giant gravitational wave detector 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z “It was incredibly bad luck, but incredibly good luck to capture it,” he told local TV station KITV. WATCH: Shark rams into man kayaking in Hawaii seas 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z The large discrepancy speaks to an inordinate amount of bad luck for Brash. Mariners ‘trust’ Matt Brash in high leverage situations despite rough Sunday 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z He strongly believes that bad luck is chasing him and his fellow Syrians. From Syria to Sudan: The nightmare followed me 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Hastings briefly retired her brand-new jersey, thinking that was the source of the bad luck. Run of bad luck has half of Kraken partial season ticket holders feeling ‘Blue’ 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z “If I didn’t have bad luck, I would have no luck.” California created the nation's only pension for aging boxers. But it's failing to deliver 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z If you have the good fortune to have lived well into retirement age, then you have the bad luck of being most vulnerable to dying of COVID-19. What you need to know to stay safe from COVID after the public health emergency ends 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Indigenous people in South America have used kambo for centuries, believing it wards off bad luck and improves hunting skills. Kambo: Australia investigates suspected frog mucus deaths 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z “But I think a lot of it is bad luck. Most race horses are taken better care of than human beings.” Mage crosses finish 1st in Kentucky Derby amid 7th death 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Valle came in hot with a regionally appropriate metaphor, and a plan for the plain bad luck. Run of bad luck has half of Kraken partial season ticket holders feeling ‘Blue’ 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z There will be a section of fans displeased that the trident is pointed with tines down because it supposedly brings bad luck. Here’s a look at the Mariners’ new City Connect jerseys and story behind them 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z One of Seattle’s top penalty killers, Tanev is adept at killing time at the other end of the ice, but has run into bad luck trying to score over there. Kraken’s Brandon Tanev blows kiss to Avalanche crowd after scoring goal in Game 2 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The Wizards aren’t the only team to have bad luck in that regard. Hachimura becomes latest former Wizard to find NBA playoff success 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Three trips to the accident and emergency department in hospital, plus a spell at a specialist infection unit in Liverpool, has put an end to her bad luck, she hopes. 'I've never once thought of giving up' - Ormerod 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Some bad luck off the tee at 18, which left him with a painfully awkward stance. Tiger Woods’ painful Masters walk results in opening 74 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Per Greek mythology, the trident which was the weapon of Poseidon, the god of the sea, brings good luck when the tines are facing upward and bad luck when the tines are pointed down. Here’s a look at the Mariners’ new City Connect jerseys and story behind them 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Cleveland also capitalized on a combination of bad luck and bad defense by Seattle that led to five unearned runs. Kwan leads Guardians’ outburst in 9-4 win over Mariners 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z “I see you had a bit of bad luck on your ‘Be All You Can Be’ commercial,” said Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee. Army quickly plans new ads after Jonathan Majors’ arrest 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Holland relocated to the city from North Pole, Alaska, after weather-related travel problems prevented him from getting a heart in December — bad luck that drew national media attention. 'All I need is a heart': Alaska man waits, hopes for transplant in Seattle 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z He added: "This was happening again and again over that year. That cannot just be coincidence or bad luck, there had to be a cause." Lucy Letby: Doctors resisted nurse's frontline return, trial hears 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z |
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