Sentences with phrase «dumb luck in»

Even when Fabious is away on a quest to kill this or that mythical beast in service of the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), the brothers» father King Tallious (Charles Dance) never stop praising his elder son, while wondering how Thadeous could so royally screw up a peace treaty with a nearby dwarf tribe (shown in the opening scene, which, through its display of Thadeous» dumb luck in escaping hanging due to dwarf - sized engineering, is the movie's funniest).

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Andrew: It's just dumb luck that my cousin leased a restaurant in Hollywood called Ting Ho.

In fact, I found myself using the word «luck» more often, simply because I would rather dumb, meaningless luck be the cause of such injustice than God.

In fact there's no difference between dumb luck and divine intervention.

Whether Bobby Riggs was so far ahead of everybody else in his recognition of a man - woman gimmick as a potential bonanza or whether he stumbled onto it by dumb luck is moot, but evidence supports the latter view.

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.

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.

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.

But I don't credit magical birth preparations (I took no preparation other than standard OB care and showing up in labor), I credit dumb luck and my doctor's training and skill.

The crazy thing is that once they were no longer running and young and stupid and had access to hospitals, she continued to trust in dumb luck when there was no need to.

Entrepreneur Barry Narod credits «dumb luck» for the chance to turn his postdoc work into a thriving business with clients in 17 countries on four continents.

«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.

The Emmy Award - winning, and Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Tony Award - nominated actor could be still coasting on the success of his turn as the lead of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, which came to an end in 2014, and which felt like the gilded cherry atop a career cake that has encompassed everything from The Purple Rose of Cairo to Dumb and Dumber, The Hours, Good Night, and Good Luck and The Squid and the Whale.

But even factoring in everything, there is also the matter of sheer, dumb luck and how cruel it can be.

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 flukes.

Every writer faces a moment in her career when she realizes that a good part of success has nothing to do with skill or planning, and everything to do with pure, dumb luck.

But i question whether sweeping any such ambitious under the rug of «100 % dumb luck» is appropriate in the publishing age that is dawning now.

Despite the best research, the best strategy and the best execution, dumb luck can play a significant part in how these asset classes perform in the real world.

While short - term winners will appear to be better and exhibit investment skill, in fact these apparently superior results are far more likely to be just short - term dumb luck.

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 more on his own example of how «dumb luck» in real estate gave him more rewards than all his hard work earning a PhD, see my column: «Interest rates stay the same, so do hot housing prices.»)

This position may still play out positively, but it will just be pure dumb LUCK (something we hope for in investing but know not to count on).

How they fared in retirement had a lot to do with 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.

Whether they refund out of that is always on a case by case basis though, and sometimes it's up to dumb luck on which CSR you get and if they're having a good day, or if they're complete a ** holes in general.

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.

The missions, which, in the GTA series, could too often be won or lost based on dumb luck alone, are both entertaining and challenging, with none of the objectives dangling on the placement of NPCs or the inconsistent AI of your enemies that plagued past Rockstar efforts.

An addition to the problems related to luck - based games is the AI players who often fluctuate from making extremely dumb decisions to never missing in a single mini-game.

Cons: - Very simple: no instructions - Story mode starts slow and is hard to progress in without some dumb luck - Procedural generation: great idea, but hard to execute in a game like this

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.

In sculptures too, like Peter Voulkos's Untitled Stack (1981) and Martin Puryear's Dumb Luck (1990), consisting of tar on a hollow mesh form, an artisanal ethos pervades.

Showing the breadth of Baseman's oeuvre, the exhibition includes illustration works (published in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and The Los Angeles Times); Baseman's complete line of designer toys including Dumb Luck, Hotchachacha, and Toby; costumes and fashion collaborations; video and sculptural installations; and new paintings inspired by his recent trips across Asia.

Interested parties such as myself advocate waiting a while yet to see if the cooling trend we predicted and which actually began more or less on time in 2010 continues as we believe it will or is just a bit of dumb luck and turns around soon.

Massar was pointing to the fact that the home buyer was able to make over a million dollars in a day due to nothing more than dumb luck.

Random dumb situational luck or I would have been in as deep as this example.