lucklessness

With the help of his backing band, the Dead Horses, Bingham spins New Depression-era tales of lucklessness and woe that alternate between stripped-down guitar ballads and full-band rave-ups, some overly literal ( "Depression"), others (the record-closing, career-high "All Choked Up Again") ragged and mournful, but just right.

Album review: Ryan Bingham, "Junky Star" 2010

Out of those feelings of miserable exclusion and persecution and lucklessness, Poe wrote “The Raven.”

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

Out of those feelings of miserable exclusion and persecution and lucklessness, Poe wrote “The Raven.”

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

They both suffer from difficulties, or lucklessness, with women.

The Man of Feeling 2002

They both suffer from difficulties, or lucklessness, with women.

The Man of Feeling 2002

Hogan replied by roundly cursing the coat and his own lucklessness.

The Tavern Knight Rafael Sabatini 1912

They included bankrupts, hypochondriacs, persons who were what is called "out of a situation" from fault or lucklessness, the inefficient of the professional class -- shabby-genteel men, who did not know how to get rid of the weary time between breakfast and dinner, and the yet more weary time between dinner and dark.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

They included bankrupts, hypochondriacs, persons who were what is called "out of a situation" from fault or lucklessness, the inefficient of the professional class -- shabby-genteel men, who did not know how to get rid of the weary time between breakfast and dinner, and the yet more weary time between dinner and dark.

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

He was a loud-voiced, merry man; and he aired his wit freely, though evidently with no intent to be unkind, upon the lover out of whose lucklessness his own luck had come.

An Idyl Of The East Side 1891 W. T. [Illustrator] Smedley 1881

M. M.chelet has with singular lucklessness selected

Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860