vicissitude

Preposition: of

• fortune: The story of the vicissitudes of fortune experienced in this family does not end, however, in sadness.
• life: This will help us most of all to be more patient amidst the vicissitudes of life.
• history: A substantial introduction surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.
• time: Not for months was the situation resolved; some of the vicissitudes of this time are recreated in Lawrence's poetry collection Look!
• fashion: So stories that have survived the vicissitudes of fashion - some for 1000 years - have got to have something going for them.
• love: Three tales of the vicissitudes of love, by the author of " Trainspotting " and " Shallow Grave " .

Converse of object

• survive: A business run by moral agents will not be able to survive the vicissitudes of the marketplace.
• undergo: Landed property has undergone many vicissitudes in Egypt; ( 1 ) and yet the cultivation has hardly altered under the various systems.
• experience: During the life cycle of any thing, it experiences the vicissitudes of life.
• share: He had the ability to change with the times and to share the vicissitudes of opinion.
• follow: As some of you may know, I have followed the vicissitudes of the nuclear non-proliferation regime very closely for more than a decade.
• suffer: From the start, it was apparent that my characters were going to suffer vicissitudes even greater than those in my previous novels.

Adjective modifier

• sad: By the professional writer many sad vicissitudes have to be undergone.
• various: He set out the various vicissitudes in progressing the contract on the lines I have described above.
• economic: Thus, the emerging global world economy lacks the corresponding social structures that cushion economic vicissitudes within domestic society.
• political: The two last are really conterminous; and in both are tall and ancient trees that have outlived a thousand political vicissitudes.
• great: Will it be my lot to experience great vicissitudes in this life?
• innumerable: The College's main area of concern is the relative weakness of its endowment which makes it vulnerable to innumerable vicissitudes.