Sentences with word «inauspicious»

He gets off to a rather inauspicious start, pointing out he hasn't had time to take legal advice since then.

As centuries of missionary endeavour have shown, pagan and semi-pagan people can be taught, helped, and encouraged to live glorious Christian lives from inauspicious beginnings.

24 March 2018 A long - overdue update for March arrives in the middle of the international break and includes a couple of inauspicious debuts from Dutch goalkeepers, some sporting masters, the goalkeeping connection with The Cockney Rejects, and the Moldova international goalkeeper who attempted to win an election but was thwarted by his party's failure to follow the rules.

Benedict Cumberbatch's introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is far from inauspicious, but Doctor Strange falls short of being the prodigy its parents want so badly for it to be, though not for a lack of trying with shaky hands.

The paintings» imposing scale and bleak depictions of a countenance in turmoil makes sense in such inauspicious times as these.

Samuel doesn't recognize God's voice, and Nathanael is puzzled by Jesus» inauspicious origins, and then by his extraordinary capacity to know and to see.

The film's audience has grown week on week, after inauspicious beginnings, to an extent not seen since Titanic or Chicago.

And, with such inauspicious beginnings, perhaps we should consider if this is a path we want to continue taking.

In the absence of such equipment, personal alcoholic responsibility can be forced upon ministers in more inauspicious ways.

April 19, 2002 With a background in BBC television as well as two well - regarded short features under his belt (Doom and Gloom (1996) and Wet and Dry (1997)-RRB-, John McKay's uneven and somewhat inauspicious feature - length debut Crush has garnered a slew of bad reviews until the only reviewers that really matter to most of North America, Ebert and Roeper, chimed in with their golden digits upraised.

Of course, the drill will inevitably break at the most inauspicious moments.

«My career in law had a rather inauspicious start and was not a comfortable experience by any means, (we often run into the family accountant at social functions which remains challenging), but I look back at it now very favourably.

Immunologist Guido Poli of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan notes that this «very silent funeral for the public funding to HIV / AIDS research» comes at a most inauspicious time: Rome will host the International AIDS Conference 17 - 20 July sponsored by the International AIDS Society.

It's a way to return to reality after the weekend's feeding frenzy and turn an otherwise inauspicious day into an opportunity to make a difference.

Harry Hole's film career could not have gotten off to a more inauspicious start.

Despite a somewhat inauspicious location on the Caledonian Road just a few blocks away from Pentonville Prison, Large Glass art gallery has quietly established itself as one of London's most intriguing and thoughtfully curated spaces.

The Canadian Moyle, whose inauspicious directorial debut was the 1977 tax - shelter crime flick The Rubber Gun, discovered teenagers three years later with his oddity of a second film Times Square and has rarely looked back since.

Although this experience was a somewhat inauspicious beginning (Albers rented an entire car of the train to protect Lawrence from the Jim Crow laws concerning interstate transportation, and once in Asheville, Lawrence never set foot off campus), Lawrence went on to teach at the New School, the Art Students League, and the University of Washington, where he was a full professor from 1970 until his retirement in 1983.

Those are some relatively inauspicious dates.

From such seemingly inauspicious beginnings a worldwide movement to outlaw war can be built.

The narrative collapses from the universal point of view into the particular lives of a mundane, inauspicious couple.

Anni Albers's introduction to weaving might have seemed inauspicious.

Our foreign and economic ministers were blindsided by Mr. Trump's signing of executive orders to move ahead with building a wall and adopting anti-immigrant policies on the same day the ministers arrived in Washington, where they faced a very inauspicious atmosphere for talks.

The signing wasn't viewed as marquee, this was a player who'd failed to make the grade at AC Milan - he arrived to inauspicious fanfare.

And the Phoenix Suns are wondering whether their plan to move into an arena named after bankrupt America West Airlines isn't a rather inauspicious indication of where they're headed.

In fact, a local billboard's greeting seemed downright inauspicious: WELCOME TO NEWFOUNDLAND.

Now, there's no way of knowing if this most inauspicious number contributed in anyway to the outcome of the tournament: to the Maracanazo; to the destruction of the dreams of the Brazilian nation by the gleeful Uruguayans; to the cultural wound that still festers to this day but which might, just might, be healed if they can win the thing at home on the second attempt.

She was born, like all hurricanes, as a faintly inauspicious stirring of winds.

Despite the unpromising pulp origins of the film's hero and the acting resume of its lead actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, director John Milius grounded his pre-Sumerian fantasy in a level of reality sorely lacking in most other fantasy films (even Barbarian's inauspicious sequel Conan the Destroyer).

By 1997, Tales from the Crypt had ended its auspicious run in a decidedly inauspicious fashion.

Recycling an old TV show to make a feature film has had inauspicious results (have you seen «Car 54, Where Are You?»?

Paranoia and mistrust run rampant in The Invitation as painful memories from the past are dredged up and inauspicious developments in the present combine to form one of the most tension - rich environments you're likely to get in a mystery thriller of its ilk.

He's getting a chance to banish memories of his recent trio of big - screen turkeys - Battleship, John Carter and Savages - one of the most inauspicious high - profile introductions to a movie career in recent memory.

Failing to appreciate the salience of social infrastructure and the irrationality of the organizational environment, both liberals and conservatives have spent a lot of time pursuing questions of limited utility... In hindsight, we would have done better had we given more attention to trying to figure out how to implement anything under such inauspicious circumstances.»

I have never thought of 13 as a particularly unlucky number, but in the wee hours of April 14, 2015, I found out just how inauspicious it could be.

Nazneen's inauspicious entry into the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu, a man old enough to be her father.

Rather inauspicious data, right?

It's difficult to describe Allan McCollum's work, but his uncanny oceans of objects and inauspicious clouds of things create an immersive feeling that persists in one's memory.

The analogous Kandor 12 shares an equally inauspicious aesthetic; the cloudy brown bottle houses a municipality more reminiscent of chess pieces than modern skyscrapers — as if underlining the inmates» loss of an unassailable game.

But then, the possibility of that was minimal as it was an open secret that the real reason for skipping OnePlus 4 was because the number Four is considered inauspicious for the Chinese.

Release: Friday, November 4, 2016 [Theater] Written by: Scott Derrickson; Jon Spaihts; C. Robert Cargill Directed by: Scott Derrickson Benedict Cumberbatch's introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is far from inauspicious, but Doctor Strange falls short of being the prodigy its parents want so badly for it to be, though not for a lack of trying with shaky hands.

This seemingly inauspicious beginning is actually rather significant because, even though it takes place very early in the film, it is nonetheless the pivotal scene that helps to set up the major themes of the film.

Even more inauspicious, there was no practical way to make p - type gallium nitride, which has an excess of electron deficiencies known as «holes.»

That was our inauspicious beginning — in 500 square feet of space.

Sounds like a polite way of saying that I don't impress — an inauspicious sign for my leadership prospects, the feasibility of which I'm here to assess.