more ill-starred

There have surely been few hotel openings more ill-starred than that of New Hotel, which unveiled its radically renovated interior in the heart of Athens just as furious anti-austerity protestors took to the city streets in June.

The car made only two more ill-starred appearances.

Yet Sri Lanka today could hardly be more ill-starred, its places of worship more full of armed fighters than of monks.

She was Pompilia—not Juliet, because, like the more ill-starred heroine, she had met sorrow before she met love, and the strong emotion which comes first in a young life makes the deep, the ineffaceable impression on its character.