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unfortunateness

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Bad fortune:

adversity, haplessness, misfortune, unluckiness, untowardness.

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So, when Captain Fielding, a beautiful red coat, is seen in the area, MacLean observes him sympathetically and considers the unfortunateness of his being there: "he would be far more at home in some London salon than in this American wilderness".30 He is being envisaged as a sophisticated soldier whose glamour would have been properly matched by the fashionable culture of the British metropolis, London.

Disruptive Colonial Discourse and Spatial Disorientations: Misrepresentation of the American and Indian Territories in the British Fictional Narratives of Wars of Independence

When ministers try aping their boss - in candor and caginess alike - it creates the kind of unfortunateness the law minister found himself in vis-a-vis Nepali female students in Bangladesh.

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Building an opera around such a figure, one who is important historically yet whose legacy is marred by a widely publicized act of cowardice, is a confounding performative charge, but I think the production--with the grandeur of its soundscape, visuality and texture, and stellar performances--balanced the unfortunateness of Newton Arvin as operatic "hero."

The Scarlet Professor as Spectacle: Responding to the Opera from a Queer Studies Perspective

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