curse

I know that sometimes your Piscean Venus can feel like a curse, but I promise you, it’s a gift from the Cosmic Mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

The village elders send Ashitaka west to find out how this curse came to be.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

This can be a blessing and a curse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Even if, like Wall Street Journal reader Marc Gordon, you bought an index fund or two and “let it ride” for a couple of decades, you can be under the same curse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Attention was as much a gift as it was a curse.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Bronwen Barclay had no concerns about "curses" when she got married in a second-hand dress.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

Mr. James also has a challenging role as the crusty salt who curses “dat ole davil sea” almost as many times as Hickey drones on about “pipe dreams” in “The Iceman Cometh.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

As quickly as possible, the crew wrapped up their ill-gotten gains and made for the exit as the four guardians wailed pleas and threats and curses behind them.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024

He curses out Brian, then responds to Alice's suggestion that forgiving Louis may help him by doing that — then in the next breath, making Louis promise to cut ties with his daughter.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024

I did not add curses or dark alleys.

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo

Then we have Benny Safdie as Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, whom Odysseus follows to Troy and, ultimately, his cursed fate.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

“By some cursed fatality we could never draw together,” Clinton wrote after Howe repeatedly changed his battle plans, leading to the catastrophic British defeat at Saratoga in October 1777.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

It seems Sally is uninterested in tempting the fates since for generations those who have fallen in love with members of the Owens family have been cursed to die.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Nathaniel Hawthorne set this brooding, allegorical work in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., a town cursed by the crimes of the witch trials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Or, instead, maybe she could break the glass case and act like she’d been cursed.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee!

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2020

The grand device to people the dark realms With noble spirits, who, but for this curst honour, Had been at peace on earth, or bless'd in heaven.

From The Fatal Falsehood by More, Hannah

But those 'tis known who die of thirst Ne'er rest in quiet graves, So now he storms with dryness curst As ghost around and raves: 'Rouse there! rouse out of the house, there!

From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

From William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground by Surtees, Scott

She curst the weaver and the walker That clothe that had wrought, And bade a vengeance on his crowne 55 That hither hath itt brought.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

We have already witnessed an ice dance judging scandal and a curling kerfuffle featuring a cursing Canadian.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

But recent videos that have emerged of her cursing at a staff member and growing prickly during a television news interview have prompted renewed concerns about her temperament.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

Rodrigo Duterte, who would assume the presidency the year after the papal visit, would make headlines after cursing the Pope for the traffic chaos he caused.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025

Given his fluctuating year and the lives gifted to Brook, Pope must have been cursing his luck that he was the victim of Phillips' gravity-defying brilliance.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

They would never have found their way back through the labyrinth had Renzo's footprints not shown them the way: Scipio didn't say a word, although Barbarossa kept cursing and spitting and hitting his back.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke