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The bad luck that can so often mar a well-played round of golf is simply overpowered and obliterated by the contemptuous boldness of these champions.
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He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.
It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him.
Anything to do with an ace o' spades, bad luck ''.
It is just bad luck that we are having the party in a month with no R's, so no oysters.
Players are also allowed to overspend ( in moderation ), with the points becoming bad stuff-bad luck which the Gamemaster should inflict on the character.
As well as representing luck, stuff can be seen as representing a character's outlook on the universe: characters with good stuff seeing the multiverse as a cheerful place, while characters with bad stuff see it as hostile.
Andre Marie Ampere was dogged by bad luck.
Women born in these years are called hinoeuma, and believed to be unmarriageable and to bring bad luck to their father or husband.
Another famous character was Joe Btfsplk, who wants to be a loving friend but is " the world's worst jinx ," bringing bad luck to all those nearby.
This bet is also nicknamed Big Red, since the 7 on its betting space on the layout is usually large and red, and it is considered bad luck and a breach of etiquette to speak the word " seven " at the table.
The main character, Adrian Monk, is frequently accused of being a " bad luck charm " and a " murder magnet " as the result of the frequency with which murder happens in his vicinity.
Chandler is known for his sarcastic sense of humor and bad luck in relationships.
It may take the form of blaming the victim: The victim of someone else's accident or bad luck may be offered criticism, the theory being that the victim may be at fault for having attracted the other person's hostility.
:: If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all!
Some believe that to hang it with the ends pointing upwards is good luck as it acts as a storage container of sorts for any good luck that happens to be floating by, whereas to hang it with the ends pointing down, is bad luck as all the good luck will fall out.
The Qur ' an says that Jonah made it onto a ship but, because of the powerfully stormy weather, the men aboard the ship suggested casting lots to throw off the individual responsible for this supposed ' bad luck '.
A long-established expression among sailors uses the term " a Jonah " as meaning a person ( either a sailor or a passenger ) whose presence on board brings bad luck and endangers the ship.
Later on, this meaning was extended to " a Jonah " referring to " a person who carries a jinx, one who will bring bad luck to any enterprise.
During a trip to Key West, a companion wrote in a newspaper article, " Mr. Audubon is the most enthusiastic and indefatigable man I ever knew ... Mr. Audubon was neither dispirited by heat, fatigue, or bad luck ... he rose every morning at 3 o ' clock and went out ... until 1 o ' clock.
Stuart received significant criticism from the Southern press as well as the postbellum proponents of the Lost Cause movement, but historians have failed to agree on whether Stuart's exploit was entirely the fault of his judgment or simply bad luck and Lee's less-than-explicit orders.
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Various factors in the setting can still be of great advantage in making the first intercourse a good rather than a bad memory for one or both.
No matter how well work is planned, bad weather or unexpected setbacks can cause extra work that must be caught up.
And you know you will always wonder all of your life whether it was because you wanted him so bad that you didn't get him, and you can feel nearly sorry enough to cry when you think of that other guy, the chump who begged you to marry him, the one with the plastered hair and the car he couldn't afford and the too-shiny shoes.
Motivation usually makes the difference between " good " and " bad ," but motivation also includes the aspect of ignorance ; so a well-intended action from an ignorant mind can easily be " bad " in that it creates unpleasant results for the " actor.
" f one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact ".
Philosophers ( and other users of logic ) spend a lot of time and effort searching for and removing ( or intentionally adding ) ambiguity in arguments, because it can lead to incorrect conclusions and can be used to deliberately conceal bad arguments.
However, the opposite can also be true-An opponent can turn a positive statement into a bad one, if the speaker uses ambiguity ( intentionally or not ).
" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.
Soul is believed to be indestructible. None of the five elements can harm or influence it. Hinduism through Garuda Purana also describes in detail various types of " Narkas " or Hells where a person after death is punished for his bad Karmas and dealt with accordingly.
Conversion can also be bad, as in The Tower, symbolizing a downfall due to anger.
Among the advantages to unfretted instruments are flexibility in tuning ( the temperament can be easily altered ) and the ability to play any music exactly as written without concern for " bad " notes.
Not only are hole information signs critical, but way-finding signs and informational signs can make a good course great, and the absence of these can make a good course bad.
A destroyer is always more uncomfortable than the others, and rain, snow, and sea-water combine to make them damp ; in fact, in bad weather there is not a dry spot where one can rest for a moment.
How, then, can we know that anything is good and how can we distinguish good from bad?
For God is has not made nature or the substance of the soul bad ; for he who is good can make nothing but what is good.
Dyson disagrees with the famous remark by his fellow physicist Steven Weinberg that " With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil ; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.
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if so, he would not be the first or last commanding officer who has succumbed to bad information and dubious estimates of the future.
Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.
From necessity, they are also inspired by the `` hard-sell '' attitude of the sponsor, so, finally, it is the sponsor who must take the responsibility for the good or bad taste of his advertising.
He ain't so bad.
That ain't too bad 'ceptin' the light company's so busy you can't ever get 'em to do nothin' ''.
As we think of the long and excruciating pain it must have suffered, we are very likely to say: `` It was a bad thing that the little animal should suffer so ''.
If so, then it is clear that in saying the suffering was bad we are not expressing our feelings only.
By early summer, he wrote from Laramie that he was suffering from the wound inflicted in the ambush and was in a bad way financially, so Pels sent him a draft for $100, warning that it was still not wise for him to return.
His reputation among Protestants was at the time so bad that he was charged by Thomas Browne in 1643 with the authorship of the legendary-apocryphal heretical treatise De tribus Impostoribus, as well as with having carried his alleged approval of polygamy into practice.
The critic Michael Medved characterized examples of the " so bad it's good " class of low-budget cult film through books such as The Golden Turkey Awards.
These films should not be confused with comedic cult movies like The Toxic Avenger, Bad Taste, Army of Darkness, Murder By Death, Spaceballs, and the films of John Waters, which purposely utilize elements from films " so bad they're good " for comedic effect.
Christians teach that human beings inherit a corrupted or damaged human nature in which the tendency to do bad is greater than it would have been otherwise, so much so that human nature would not be capable now of participating in the afterlife with God.
The stench became so bad however that the funeral had to be brought forward to the evening of June 16.
They explain to her that the problem with the earthquake was so bad, that it is creating a large fault along the Philippine Plate.
Examples: Dialogue: Is so consistently bad that the entire screenplay could be submitted as an example.
We further recognize that the number of bad films is so enormous and the competition for the very worst is so intense, that all decisions reached here are subject to considerable second-guessing.
* Worst Actor: Richard Burton ( a highly controversial choice, considering the fact that he was Oscar-nominated many times, but made because Burton starred in so many bad films )
For example, he expresses a subjectivistic idea when he says to Rosencrantz: " there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so ".
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