Sentences with phrase «of happenstance»

In this we would be like whales, whose species behave similarly everywhere, but have distinct «songs» as the result of happenstance.

Geisha Williams isn't the first person whose life included moments of happenstance — but her ability to make the most of them is striking.

But if we can not explain this suffering as a deserved punishment, most of us still find unacceptable and unbearable the alternative explanation: that there is no deeper reason for our suffering, that it is after all just a matter of happenstance and bad luck, that it is (in a moral sense) senseless.

I liked that this regular guy gets powers just out of happenstance, and how the film concerns him and everyone else around him, having to deal with the positive and negative consequences of this situation.

In a nice bit of happenstance for book promotion, Every Day Fiction put out «Card, Candle and Mirror» and Swords & Sorcery published «Time Is a Lady's Unerring Blade.»

I walked for a mile before finding Father on the top of a dune, where we walked across another half - mile of sub-quicksand; a kind of happenstance of the tides which left a consistency of wet mushroom.

We exist through 14 billion years of happenstance that makes sense to us, but makes no sense to anything outside our Earth - bound realm.

Gaskins's high - jumping career began through a combination of happenstance and stubbornness.

We may conclude that even though the visual system can make sophisticated use of such abstract properties as the physics of luminance ratios and the statistics of segmentation required for transparency, it is «dumb» with regard to other characteristics such as color because of the happenstance manner in which its hardware (or «squishy - ware») evolved through natural selection — strong evidence against «intelligent design.»

In contrast they chose the relaxed pub setting of The Happenstance in the city where they could indulge in good food and drink whilst adding personal touches to the day for their guests to enjoy such as a temporary tattoo station and a Krispy Kreme doughnut cake.

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.

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.

For those who cherished The Notebook and readers waiting to discover the magic of Nicholas Sparks's storytelling, here is his new, achingly lovely novel of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most...

As usual, in other words according to a majority of happenstance, price action eventually rolled lower to hit both high - odds objectives by noon EST..

After the feisty furballs had their fill of Happenstance's delicious doggy sushi and paw - rents had warmed up with a cuppa, dog trainer Kristina Dieta Setiabudi from Puppy Colours Academy got the ball rolling with an impressive JRT training presentation.

So, here in troubled Nepal not only do I have to not grizzle about cold food or dark rooms, but I have to mine the narrow winding pathways of happenstance to find specific, often fleeting positive events, for myself or others for which I am exhorted to give grateful thanks and unending praise.

The allure of adventure and the mystique of travel are all about throwing caution to the wind, baring your teeth at the indifferent universe and flinging yourself into the chaotic maw of happenstance and serendipity, right?

An incidental mark or a discordant color offers a stain recalling the productive marriage of happenstance and decision.

Check out Dirk Staschke in converstaion with Stefano Catalani at the closing of «Perfection of Happenstance» below.

Resisting gimmicky double takes in favor of earnest wit born of happenstance accumulations (and savvy juxtapositions of unspectacular supplies), the works gives the impression that their details count.

SAN DIEGO — Thinking About Thought, an exhibition of books and original drawings by writer and conceptual artist Roberta Allen, came about through a series of happenstances.

Clare says in another turn of happenstance, the colours of the mural are the same as the colourful plumes of smoke he first imagined.

The result of that happenstance is the blurry photo that you see here showing what appears to be a 2018 Mustang wearing the highland green paint and black wheels made iconic by Steve McQueen in the classic flick Bullitt.

The bombing itself is a matter of happenstance, as rangy warehouse worker Jeff makes a barroom promise to his on / currently off girlfriend Erin (Tatiana Maslany) to cheer her at the Marathon finish line.

We all have a tendency to stick with what we know, so if you realize you're on a date with someone you've been matched with out of happenstance, it's OK to cut things off at the head.

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

It is unlikely, then, that the post by Stan on the show was merely a fun bit of happenstance.

A bankruptcy can happen to anyone just because of happenstance, but there is really no reason you should raid your Individual Retirement Accounts.

You'll meet people that don't like you as much as you like them and vice versa, but all of these happenstances only serve to make it all the more worthwhile when you finally meet the special someone who is meant to be yours.

In a moment of happenstance she asks him to step in for a model who is running late, the only catch is he's supposed to model women's clothes.

Now not only will customers be able to see the eReaders physically on display, but many people will just come upon them out of happenstance.

If you end up with multiple accounts and more than one financial adviser as a result of happenstance, rather than on purpose, I'd be inclined to consider what you really want.

That structure comes out of a very historical, very ancient, and very weathered kind of grid where things are not diagrammed and fabricated according to some conceptually distinct model, but are the result of happenstance, accumulation, experience, momentary decisions, and lucky accidents.

«If the case had been decided just one year later, which given the course of litigation that winds its way to the Supreme Court is really just a matter of happenstance, I don't think there is any doubt how the new Chief Justice Roberts and Justice O'Connor's replacement, Justice Alito, would have been aligned.»

It argues that if this distinction is not drawn, «the risk arises of certain areas of law — simply as a result of the happenstance that they began life as directly effective EU law — being permanently vulnerable to being reshaped through the use of delegated powers».