Sentences with phrase «happenstance seemed»

It's not quite the hatchet job many had predicted, but you're left at times unsatisfied with minor plot points: Post plane crash, Gerry and his bodyguard are the only survivors... Whilst fleeing zombies at Camp Humphreys, out of seven people he's the only one to survive... Much of the happenstance seems to be too unbelievable to work or be credible.

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Humans adapt and rationalize problems so it may seem that there was a reason something happened when it was just happenstance.

Yet even there, day care seems to have come to local parishes more by happenstance than by intentional ministry.

No word on whether they came together or if it was pure happenstance, but they seem to having a good time.

Examining substantial collections of annotated texts dating from the 12th to the 21st centuries, the researchers found that certain linguistic changes were guided by pressures analogous to natural selection — social, cognitive and other factors — while others seem to have occurred purely by happenstance.

It's rife with unexpected moments of happenstance that seem to be completely isolated from the rest of the film's world.

In other words, the point at which culturemongers finally lunge at a craze is usually once it's begun shrieking its death rattle, and yet a post-mortem of said craze invariably divulges a complex tapestry of art and politics, the ascription of happenstance to which seems preposterous.

Not only do the regulations impose new and unauthorized burdens that are found nowhere in the law, but the reporting requirements seem calculated — by happenstance or design — to yield misleading comparisons between charter schools and traditional district schools.

The next page tap is now on the bottom of the text when in landscape, which somehow seems a natural place for it to be — a lucky happenstance.