Sentences with phrase «of chance encounter»

«Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930,» at The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York, presents the Japanese - American artist's large - scale ink paintings in conversation with the brushwork of eminent Chinese literati painter, Qi Baishi, in the story of the chance encounter between the two in China in the 1930s.

The time period presented coincides with de Kooning's first foray into sculpture in 1969, the result of a chance encounter on a visit to Rome with an old friend who owned a foundry.

The end result is a product of chance encounter, careful composition and captured moment.

It's does a really good job of guiding you to where the story is, but it still feels like a sort of chance encounter out in the world when you come across somebody who has a role to move the story forward.»

Spain For Pleasure started partly because I wanted a platform to develop my writing skills and partly because of a chance encounter with another very successful travel blogger, but also because I wanted to keep my friends and family informed of what I was up to in Spain via fancy photos and whimsical anecdotes instead of annoying, gone - in - a-flash Facebook status updates.

The Last Siege, published in October 2006, tells the tale of a chance encounter on the snowy slopes of a castle moat which throws together three lonely teenagers whose playful dares turn into a frenzy of nightmarish action when a re-enactment of a castle siege becomes very real.

She tells him of her chance encounter, during one of her weekly shopping trips to the city, with a doctor named Alec (Trevor Howard), who helps her remove a bit of soot from her eye.

What follows is her story of the chance encounter that allowed her to become a rising star.

The project began with 1995's Before Sunrise: Written by director Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan, it tells of a chance encounter between a young American named Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and a young Frenchwoman named Celine (Julie Delpy), who become acquainted while traveling by train in Europe and decide to spend their final hours together in Vienna.

BEGIN AGAIN, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, sees Irish - born director John Carney (who brought us ONCE), explore the story of a chance encounter...

12:00 N — TCM — Brief Encounter Beautifully understated romantic drama of a chance encounter at a railway station cafe between two married people who know better than to indulge their burgeoning love for each other, but do so anyway.

Vuela (Fly) tells the story of a chance encounter between Luisa and Monica just before they take off to different countries and leave everything behind them, including the opportunity to get to know each other.

The meeting lasted only a minute, but a photo taken of that chance encounter has tantalized admirers of both men for years to follow.

In that month, there are millions of chance encounters between cells of the immune system and the vaccine, and then a period where many times as many cells randomly stitch and mutate bits of DNA in an attempt to build working antibodies.

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Feeling more spontaneous and improvised than ever, this tale of chance encounters at a big film festival is easy on the eye and strewn with humorous gems, as it wryly reflects on the festival business and its denizens.

A pleasantly diverting bumper - car drama of chance encounters, new friendships and random triggers.

At intervals throughout the journey, learners are faced with the «Code of Conduct» scenarios in the guise of chance encounters.

Matching his passion for political engagement with the poetry of chance encounters, Orozco's photographs, sculptures, and installations propose a distinctive model for the ways in which artists can affect the world with their work.

Working with collaborators Biba Bell, Mohamed Soumah, and Todd Stovall, the artist presents an evening of chance encounters through which she explores the motivations, genealogies, and sources of her Liquor Store Theatre.

D'Agata's work is autobiographical and formed of chance encounters with peopl...

Resisting confinement to a single medium, critically acclaimed Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco (born 1962) explores the poetry of chance encounters while blurring the boundary between art and the everyday.

In this combined piece, abstractions of light travel across and into space, illuminating the High Line's passageway and initiating a series of chance encounters with visitors to the park.

A series of chance encounters and being introduced to Kay Politowicz, head of textiles at Chelsea College of Art & Design, where I ended up doing my PhD.

The skeptics might also argue that such data would unduly discount the value of chance encounters, whether it is a lawyer walking into a colleague's office or the proverbial watercooler chat.

Not exact matches

While this may not work for chance encounters, it's crucial when a first meeting is planned ahead of time, such as a job interview or a consultation with a potential client.

So, there's a tremendous amount of standard business wisdom about how you need to have an elevator pitch, a small nugget that will encapsulate what it is you do with the amount of time it takes to pitch your business to a theoretical once - in - a-lifetime investor in a chance elevator encounter.

If potential love matches slip through the cracks of Craigslist's Missed Connections pages — where users frequently attempt to reconnect after miscarried chance encounters — perhaps this conciliatory token is the next best thing.

No matter where you are or what you're pitching, chances are if you're presenting to an audience - whether it's an audience of 5 or 5,000 - you're going to encounter one of three types of personalities, says author and speaker Mark Jeffries.

«The basic elements of this story are repeated in the lives of all of the great Masters in history: a youthful passion or predilection, a chance encounter that allows them to discover how to apply it, an apprenticeship in which they come alive with energy and focus.

Buying the right piece of luggage can help eliminate or at least lessen the chance that you will encounter many of these problems.

However, hypothetically, if I encountered two identical startups with the exception of the gender of the CEO, with exactly the same chance of success, at exactly the same time, with exactly the same investment terms and conditions, and had equal opportunity to invest in either, there would still be something about the startups that would tip my decision in favour of one over the other.

«These chance encounters of learning and resource sharing within the community naturally lend themselves to projects and additional revenue streams for our members.»

I also refuse to believe that I was evolved from a random chance encounter of amino acids and protein in a primordial soup of microorganisms.

Sometimes the meetings are regular and planned and at other times they are chance encounters at a store or place of business.

John the Evangelist gives us a chance to watch and learn from another kind of encounter: the one between Pilate and Jesus.

That this man would dare take a chance on his life it only proves that he never really had Spiritual encounter with GOD creator of all.

more recently, a couple of people in different ways have challenged me to give people a chance, to make each encounter with them a clean slate, rather than holding on to the things that have hurt me... If I could really do this, imagine the potential for understanding and goodness.

Who is to say whether this chance encounter or that tumorous growth, this melody in a cafe or that agonizing defeat, are merely the winds of chance that blow through everyone's life, or the «signs» of the Spirit who caresses us like a mother or a lover?

Rather in the last hour God encounters man with a free and gracious opportunity of eschatological existence, a chance which man neglects at his own peril and which therefore places him in ultimate decision.

As the book begins, Simonini is writing his memoir, after a chance encounter with the young Sigmund Freud, in an attempt to recover from a case of partial amnesia and, as it turns out, split personality.

But the historian of religions aims to familiarize himself with the greatest possible number of religions, especially with archaic and primitive religions, where he has a chance to encounter certain religious institutions still in their elementary stages.

Whether he has ever seen a devil, as Mantel did as a girl — «It has no edges, no mass, no dimension, no shape except the formless; it moves» — is ultimately unimportant; his novels are the work of a man who believes in devils, or at least in their possibility, and the possibility that one of his ordinary Americans could encounter one by chance.

Now that the wine - in - a-box format is coming back into fashion, retailers must be relieved to encounter fewer glass bottles smashing, negating the chance of losing valuable stock.

If you've encountered grilled fruit before, chances are it was a dessert of the grilled - stone - fruit - with - ice - cream variety.

Glenn Hoddle then added to that by claiming Wilshere had been making bad decisions in the previous encounter, coming as a further blow to his chances of appearing tonight.

The cup represents the best chance of a trophy for both teams and will make for a finely contested encounter and van Gaal is relishing the challenge.

But it took a chance encounter for Arkansas Coach Norm DeBriyn to hear of him.

It would be a huge shock if we was to lose the encounter, but I would love the chance to rub some salt into the wounds of some of my Celtic buddies.