Sentences with phrase «dumb luck at»

Preordering the latest iPhone model is the only way to ensure you get one, aside from dumb luck at your local retailer.

It's something that can often feel a little to fast and frantic for its own good with kill sometimes feeling more like dumb luck at being in the right place at the right time instead of skill.

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The Bengals can probably credit luck for part of that since the fight at their practice started with Vontaze Burfict diving at Gio Bernard's knees, which ranks as the dumbest fight in any camp so far.

The temptation is to see him as a frustrating character in a Guy Clark ballad, someone whose passions keep him grasping at failure but who, by dumb luck, succeeds.

Rosberg endured racing demons in 2016 - when he beat Hamilton outright at places like Monza and Singapore, there was always seemingly another reason for this, be it engine conspiracy or dumb luck.

Dumb luck would be not researching anything about labor, delivering at a hospital, and having a completely intervention free labor.

«For the first time, this allows us to begin the process of designing and synthesizing new anesthetics based on where and how they work rather than on serendipity and sheer dumb luck,» said Neil Harrison, PhD, associate professor of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago and director of the study, which was carried out in collaboration with Adron Harris, PhD, (UC Denver) and colleagues Eric Greenblatt at Pennsylvania and John Mihic, now at Wake Forest University.

At every turn, just at the exact moment you think things can't possibly go further off the rails — they do, in a whitewater - swift cascade of errors, goofs, foul - ups, bad luck, dumb luck, happy accidents and miraculous flukeAt every turn, just at the exact moment you think things can't possibly go further off the rails — they do, in a whitewater - swift cascade of errors, goofs, foul - ups, bad luck, dumb luck, happy accidents and miraculous flukeat the exact moment you think things can't possibly go further off the rails — they do, in a whitewater - swift cascade of errors, goofs, foul - ups, bad luck, dumb luck, happy accidents and miraculous flukes.

You can't count on fortune and fame any more than you can count on being at the right place at the right time OR pure, dumb luck, but you CAN count on doing things the right way (quality editing, a solid cover design, etc.) so that you've got a better chance of doors opening for you.

If students do well at stock - picking exercises it's almost surely because of dumb luck, yet their «success» may encourage them to think that investing is a form of gambling, rather than a prudent way to grow the money they've saved.

Hard lesson learned: when Warren Buffett says earning > 12 % in stock is pure dumb luck and you laugh at it, you're in for a trouble.

For when he looked around him, at the books and the tennis court and the folk art on the walls — when he contemplated the countless millions that Niederhoffer had made over the years — he could not escape the thought that it might all have been the result of sheer, dumb luck.

When others are bragging at cocktail parties about their wizardry (really far more likely just dumb luck) in an upward trending stock market, you are likely to have to hold your tongue.

Our weekly new game roundup doesn't happen until tomorrow, but developer Dumb Luck Games launched their new title Retro Highway [Free] at such an odd time (as far as mobile game releases are concerned, anyway) that I wanted to make sure that it didn't slip through the cracks.

Dumb luck — or because the rhetoric matters in such cases, «divine providence» — gave to us to see The Patients and the Doctors, one of the notorious plate paintings that Schnabel exhibited in his first solo show at Mary Boone's Soho space in 1979.

You look at your driving record and see speeding tickets, an accident, maybe a DUI, and chalk everything up to dumb mistakes or bad luck behind the wheel.

The only way that one who buys a home can actually make any money on that property, above and beyond inflation, is if one buys at the bottom of a price crash and thence sells at the price peak just before the bubble bursts, something that the average home owner can not do unless via pure dumb luck twice over.