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changes — especially unanticipated difficulties- the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research
vicissitudes = changes — especially unanticipated difficulties
- Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day's hunting.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- He was soon in trouble again, and, over the years, experienced many vicissitudes.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- The vicissitudes of the human mind had not yet been exhausted by her.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- Chapter XXI — Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes of a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera.Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
- Not long after this, Jurgis, wearying of the risks and vicissitudes of miscellaneous crime, was moved to give up the career for that of a politician.Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
- He was stirred by recollections of his countrymen, their triumphs and vicissitudes, their history the history of God.Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
- He was tough as an antique ivory figurine which has withstood the vicissitudes of centuries, and can accept more.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- "Life is full of vicissitudes," I replied.Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
- The vicissitudes of her life had caused her to keep her feelings for others in check: It was dangerous to care for people; inevitably, you got hurt.Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
- Strange vicissitudes have met these whilom masters.W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
- The English poet said it best: There were more preposterous vicissitudes in life than a single philosophy could conjure.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- CHAPTER XXV THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Certainly not with the vicissitudes of human beings.Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- Now smiling hope, with sweet vicissitude, Within the hero's mind his joys renew'd.Virgil -- The Aeneid
- Only the vicissitudes of life can show us its vanity and develop our innate love of death or of rebirth to a new life.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- These delicate qualities have survived his vicissitudes, eh?Henry James -- Washington Square
- All that belongs to the existence of the human race taken as a whole, to its vicissitudes and to its future, becomes an abundant mine of poetry.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- The intervals of foreign war were filled up by domestic vicissitudes convulsions, and carnage.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- The contrary is shown in the vicissitudes and fate of the republic.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
vicissitudes = unanticipated difficulties
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