Epic or short story, beginnings are always a problem, but how is this for the height of inauspiciousness?

Thus she is associated with death, pollution, inauspiciousness and the periphery of Hindu society.

"I finished 16th in a field of 32," she said, smiling at the inauspiciousness of her political career.

Such restrictions are now strictly observed only by a small minority of widows, though some degree of ritual inauspiciousness lingers.

In view of the inauspiciousness of the beginnings, de Gaulle's successes between June 1940 and May 1943 were indeed remarkable.

As the patron of left-over food offerings, she embodies inauspiciousness and the forbidden transgression of social norms.

In her Varanasi temple, however, she transcends her inauspiciousness and acquires the status of a local protective deity.

Though Dhumavati may seem to be a goddess to be avoided due to her inauspiciousness, she is described as tender-hearted and one who gives her devotees whatever they want.

On that little shape had converged all the inauspiciousness and shadow which had darkened the first union of Jude, and all the accidents, mistakes, fears, errors of the last.

Matangi is often associated with pollution, inauspiciousness and the periphery of Hindu society, which is embodied in her most popular form, known as Ucchishta-Chandalini or Ucchishta-Matangini.

The presence of the crow, a carrier of death, in her iconography as well as her textual description of having crow-like features associate her with death and inauspiciousness.