Synonymer & Information om | Engelska ordet ILL-STARRED

Exempel på hur man kan använda ILL-STARRED i en mening

• During the year 1843 the air was full of different conspiracies and various other ill-starred attempts at nationalist uprisings were made.
• In the ill-starred Bishops' Wars, Astley provided service to the king, and he was involved in the so-called "Army Plot".
• The tanker, M/T Haven, was an elderly vessel, formerly the Amoco Haven, sister ship of the ill-starred Amoco Cadiz that had foundered in 1978.
• In 2013 he published his ninth book, The Wizard of Oz, about the ill-starred Australian speed ace from the 1920s, Norman 'Wizard' Smith, as well as co-producing the CD Silver Roads, an anthology of Australian country-rock from the 1970s.
• Though heralding the way forward in the change from sail to steam on the long Western Australian coast, like its predecessor , Georgette had a short and ill-starred career and sank soon after its arrival there.
• Following his early death, and over her mother's objections, Usha is taken to Bombay by family hanger-on Keshav Dalvi (Amol Palekar) to audition successfully as a singer in a Bombay studio: the first step in a process, watched approvingly by Usha's doting grandmother and with horror by her mother, that will eventually carry her to on-camera adolescent stardom, and to an ill-starred love marriage with Keshav.
• However, the first Stravinsky production – The Rake's Progress – was "the most "ill-starred" opera in the Society's history", largely the result of singers' illnesses.
• Captain Kidd's Cat, which he both wrote and illustrated, is narrated by the feline in the title, named McDermot, who tells the story of the famous pirate's ill-starred voyage, in the process of which he is shown to have been a brave, upright, honest man betrayed by his friends and calumniated by posterity.
• Among other diagnoses, Millon advocated for an expanded version of passive aggressive personality disorder, which he termed 'negativistic' personality disorder and argued could be diagnosed by criteria such as "expresses envy and resentment toward those apparently more fortunate" and "claims to be luckless, ill-starred, and jinxed in life; personal content is more a matter of whining and grumbling than of feeling forlorn and despairing" (APA, 1991, R17).

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