Sample sentences for VICISSITUDES

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Definition

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

vicissitudes = unanticipated difficulties

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

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