down-on-his-luck

Tom, the down-on-his-luck husband in "Confectioner's Gold," muses on the condition of the blind: "I end up feeling sorry for them, and I'm not supposed to; I'm supposed to feel empathy not sympathy ..."

Review of What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy 2010

Merrells, who played down-on-his-luck boxer Terry Molloy in Berkoff's collaboration with Nottingham Playhouse, On The Waterfront, a West End success, is the king whose moral blindness brings down catastrophe on his family and future generations when he kills his own father and marries his mother.

This week's new theatre 2011

You've seen the evidence yourself: Every day there's another down-on-his-luck mad scientist's assistant on the street, holding a sign that reads, "Will hunchback for food."

Frank Lesser: Unemployed Monsters: The Jobless Horseman Frank Lesser 2011

Get this: A down-on-his-luck, "bird-dogging" guy from Illinois meets a blues-beltin', balls-to-the-wall babe from Louisiana ripping through Susan Tedeschi's "It Hurts So Bad" in a karaoke bar in Nashville, gets blown away with the voice, then stops "everything I was doing."

Michael Bialas: Hot Duo Steel Magnolia Have A Three-Way... Conversation Michael Bialas 2011

In the first of Jakob Arjouni's four Kayankaya books to be published in the United States - "Happy Birthday, Turk!" will arrive next month - this down-on-his-luck detective is scraping by with just one client, a cheerfully pompous Islamic scholar who likes to explain Turkish culture to a man with it in his own DNA.

Unlikely gumshoe with grit Richard Lipez 2011

Everyone, meet Case, a down-on-his-luck hacker surviving in Chiba City, Japan, aka the urban sprawl.

REVIEW: TouchMaster 3 (over at The First Hour) ravenelectrick 2010

Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog on It, who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator.

Dog On It by Spencer Quinn: Book summary 2010

He returned to the courtroom with 1982's The Verdict, starring Paul Newman as a down-on-his-luck alcoholic lawyer who redeems himself with a malpractice case.

Sidney Lumet Dies at 86 2011

Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston).

New High Resolution Images From THE BOUNTY HUNTER Starring Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston – Collider.com 2010

In the first of Jakob Arjouni's four Kayankaya books to be published in the United States - "Happy Birthday, Turk!" will arrive next month - this down-on-his-luck detective is scraping by with just one client, a cheerfully pompous Islamic scholar who likes to explain Turkish culture to a man with it in his own DNA.

Unlikely gumshoe with grit Richard Lipez 2011