Sentences with phrase «as sheer luck»

Some will dismiss it as madness, some as sheer luck.

It would all be transparently seen as sheer luck.

Not exact matches

But as we approached this, sheer good luck and timing prevailed....

As fortune had it, we came up short in both matches, not necessarily due to Wenger's lack of tactical nous, but due to sheer dumb luck.

Ashley Cole on the other hand will have the eery experience of meeting Frank Lampard with neither of them in Chelsea colours — both were released as free agents in summer by the Blues and by sheer luck drifted back together again.

Plot driven rather than character driven, and generous in the sheer amount of story presented, it's a fascinating meditation on luck, lust and morality, and is highlighted by strong performances by Rhys Meyers, as well as Emily Mortimer and Scarlett Johansson as the women in his life.

As romantic as it sounds, simply blasting your book off the publishing cosmos and snatching readers is a thing of luck, sheer genius, or golden marketinAs romantic as it sounds, simply blasting your book off the publishing cosmos and snatching readers is a thing of luck, sheer genius, or golden marketinas it sounds, simply blasting your book off the publishing cosmos and snatching readers is a thing of luck, sheer genius, or golden marketing.

I never got any awful rejections from agents — probably just sheer luck as I sat down next to her at a lunch but I've had enough other publishing related rejections to toughen me up... sigh!

Good performance, which would vindicate him would be taken as an example of luck, whereas any poor performance would be regarded as sheer incompetence, and hence creating incentives to go with the mathematical model.

Set aside any extenuating circumstances and sheer bad luck (if applicable), and look at yourself as a number on the page.

It's by sheer luck that combat is won rather than by using any real skill as the game engine sends your cars spinning away at the mere sight of a stray tire in the road.

Spanning across several different heights and providing several areas which overlook a great deal of the battlefield, many players will stumble across strategic locations through sheer luck but more experienced players will know exactly how to navigate the narrow hallways while drawing as little attention to themselves as possible.

By allowing players to take a slower, more methodical approach to fighting one another, by setting up traps, decoys and calling in supply air drops, would weigh the player experience more on the side of skill, as opposed to sheer luck.

Complements at Minnesota Street: The Minnesota Street Project is just getting started, but it is impressive to see the synergies that can happen there, whether by design, because ideas are in the air or as a consequence of sheer luck.

While it may be a true statement that the S09 results at Byrd Station prove to be more accurate as better and better analyses are performed, if so, it was sheer luck (as I will demonstrate, yet again).

Most people would write off the Kardashians» or Kim Kardashian's immense rise to fame as the result of sheer luck, but I actually see a business strategy behind it.