Sentences with phrase «of serendipity as»

In the great holiday tradition of «one for you, one for me,» we can't resist picking up one of these souvenirs of serendipity as a little New Year's present to ourselves.

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Bruno Moriset, a professor at the University of Lyon, describes them as «serendipity accelerators» designed «to host people who endeavor to break isolation and to find a convivial environment that favors meetings and collaboration.»

«All we can hope for is serendipity — that a scientist as inquisitive as the one looking in the lobster's mouth and marvelling at S pandora will come across evil, maybe from the preserved brains of those afflicted....

When I see my life as a story, with all the richness and depth of art, the beauty and serendipity and redemption, the synchronicity of forces beyond my knowing, I understand finally that I am not necessarily the author.

Call it serendipity... I have a piece of salmon in my fridge as we speak!

So as our dear friend serendipity would have it, I found myself photographing those special connections more and more frequently, even though my initial passion was documenting the beautiful bodies of all mothers willing to share their bodies» stories.»

The discovery was pure serendipity; the police were on the premises as part of an unrelated investigation.

Overall Impressions: November Serendipity by Little Lace Box is a success in terms of the contents as I will use / have used each one of the items.

Serendipity Refined showed us how to use milk paint as a stain when she made over her fabulous bergère chairs... always one of my favorite styles!

by Walter Chaw Much will be written about Robert Forster's performance in Diamond Men, Dan Cohen's sophomore hyphenate feature, and as Forster lands an executive producer credit (daughter Kate gets the «associate producer» tag), the veteran actor's much - deserved critical buzz this time around is a product more of design than serendipity.

Both movies finding their way to DVD within a couple weeks of each other (Deep Impact in a freshly - minted «Special Collector's Edition») isn't, I'd wager, serendipity so much as an opportunity on the one side to capitalize on a semi-blockbuster.

But more than ever, the actual mechanics of pinball — the multi-directional movement, the cacophony of competing stimuli, the serendipity at play in winning or losing — function as Linklater's guiding principles.

Each of them riffs on noir archetypes (the hardboiled detective with a dark past, the embittered ex-cop partner, the fatale, and manifestations of serendipity and fate), the principal players aren't so much reintroduced in Cowboy Bebop as they are joined in medias res, foiling a convenience store robbery with a sort of insouciant wit.

The fateful teeth of serendipity strike as they come to head at a sex addicts anonymous meeting.

John Cusack (Identity, Serendipity) stars as Nick Easter, who reluctantly goes in for jury duty for a major trial involving the lawsuit of the gun company which manufactured the weapon used in an office shooting which killed almost a dozen people, including the plaintiff's husband.

The word «serendipity» was coined by Horace Walpole in the 1740s after reading the fable The Three Princes of Serendip (set in the land of Serendip, now known as Sri Lanka).

and finally, yes you hit the momma lode with me with this article was the notion of adding physical company to one's online friends, such as via meetup; i literally, not exaggerating, signed up for a group this morning after finding out about them via a google search; serendipity must have raised its friendly face to me this morning

When it comes to initial discovery, conventional ebook stores still act as though they're made of bricks and mortar — as though readers can just wander through the stacks in a particular genre and find a book through serendipity.

The boat jetty at the northern end of the beach separates the short rocky stretch known as Serendipity from sandy Ochheuteal proper.

Bars and nightlife Being a fun kind of destination, Ochheuteal has at least as many drinking as it does eating choices going from poolside cocktails at a resort, a sundowner with a view on Serendipity's rocks or your toes in the sand in an Ochheuteal deckchair, to a pub quiz and mojito at one of the Serendipity Beach Road's bars or a game of pool or connect 4 at Sihanoukville Square.

As serendipity would have it, two of my friends were working as teachers in Dubai for a year, and I Emirates Airlines had started direct flights from Orlando, my hometown, two months earlieAs serendipity would have it, two of my friends were working as teachers in Dubai for a year, and I Emirates Airlines had started direct flights from Orlando, my hometown, two months earlieas teachers in Dubai for a year, and I Emirates Airlines had started direct flights from Orlando, my hometown, two months earlier.

Being a backpacker haven, the city attracts a fun - loving party crowd and, as most of the budget hotels and hostels can be found around Serendipity Beach Road, it's no surprise that this area has the densest concentration of the loudest and busiest nightlife attractions.

Well, as we always say, «it's all about serendipity», and lot's of hard work.

As with all suites, a lounge sofa and coffee table, a bar fridge stocked with Peter Lehmann wines **, tea and coffee making facilities including a selection of Twinning Teas and Victoria espresso coffee plus a complete selection of Serendipity toiletries are also included.

As with all suites, a lounge sofa and coffee table, a bar fridge stocked with premium Peter Lehmann wines, tea and coffee making facilities including a selection of Twinning Teas and Victoria espresso coffee plus a complete selection of Serendipity toiletries are also included.

Add to this how its original concept was created as a way to add «cute» Pokemon to a series that didn't yet feature them or how its rarity in game was driven in part by its creators wanting to keep it to themselves, and it becomes clear that every element of the electric mouse's creation stemmed from pure serendipity.

Elaine DeKooning writes of Zacharias: «Athos Zacharias, as a painter, has serendipity: his colors and forms always charge into the right place at the right time.»

He always works alone, without assistants, listening to one of the thousands of albums and CDs in his collection, and often makes sketches and drawings as part of his process of trial, error and serendipity.

Amplifying the poetics of the everyday, the marginal and the overlooked, Fyfe increasingly repurposes found materials — a child's kite, a discarded sign, or an abandoned banner — into his near - abstract compositions that are informed as much by serendipity as they are by any kind of high - minded formalism.

In 2015, at New York Museum of Modern Art Erizku represented his «visual manifesto», a film named Serendipity in which he uses a sledgehammer to break the bust of David, replacing it with the one of Egyptian queen Nefertiti as an expression of the idea that the American culture doesn't value enough the work of black people.

The shift happened as a matter of serendipity, while the artist was painting at sands point preserve, but it took hold viscerally for a woman whose main life events have coincided with storms.

Joseph Corneli writes: We take the 50th Anniversary of the famous Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, curated by Jasia Reichardt at the London's Institute for Contemporary Arts, as our inspiration for a one - day workshop «Cybernetic Serendipity Reimagined».

The pairing of Marcel Broodthaers and Hanne Darboven in a single text would seem to favor the former's methods, which lampooned and utilized the idiosyncrasies and serendipities of surface and contingency that brought about such a pairing in the first place — which is to say the occurrence of two contemporaneous exhibitions in two major German institutions by two artists who dealt with issues of archive, text - as - image, and art - as - work just as these tropes have re-emerged as the historically available «next - big - thing.»

Writer and curator Jasia Reichardt was Assistant Director of the ICA from 1963 - 71, during which time she curated exhibitions such as Cybernetic Serendipity (1968).

Walking Forward - Running Past embraces synchronicity, connection and serendipity, presenting a group of works that explore time's malleable form, and questioning the linear narrative conventionally measured as past, present, and future.

He also staged a series of ICA Off - Site exhibitions in Birmingham, London and Hong Kong, and reactivated the Institute's unique history through a series of displays dedicated to landmark exhibitions, such as the Francis Bacon exhibition held in 1955, and Cybernetic Serendipity also held at the ICA in 1968.

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As in the previous show, the interactions among the four artists are testament of Wood's keen eye and the pleasure of serendipity.

The problem we face is how to achieve both, and maintain what you so powerful described as «the serendipity of accidental discovery».

As I have said publicly on more than one occasion, the Words and Phrases part of the Canadian Abridgement is one of the most useful tools we have for issues where the applicable legal category is not easily retrieved, and one needs some Swan - like serendipity.

As much as I enjoy the visceral impact of a stroll through the stacks at a law library and the serendipity of opening a dusty old law report to find something of use (or at least interest), my practical experience over the past decade in the quasi-legal administrative world of telecommunications policy has allowed me to conduct primary research nearly exclusively through digital sources — and mostly free ones at thaAs much as I enjoy the visceral impact of a stroll through the stacks at a law library and the serendipity of opening a dusty old law report to find something of use (or at least interest), my practical experience over the past decade in the quasi-legal administrative world of telecommunications policy has allowed me to conduct primary research nearly exclusively through digital sources — and mostly free ones at thaas I enjoy the visceral impact of a stroll through the stacks at a law library and the serendipity of opening a dusty old law report to find something of use (or at least interest), my practical experience over the past decade in the quasi-legal administrative world of telecommunications policy has allowed me to conduct primary research nearly exclusively through digital sources — and mostly free ones at that.

In the field of the sciences, this mechanism is known as serendipity.

A commitment to privacy expresses a different kind of «sound reason» that we might choose to value — one that prizes serendipity as well as predictability and idiosyncrasy as well as assimilation.

The Merriam - Webster dictionary defines serendipity as: «the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.»

When discussing the issue of discovery, people often mention the loss of serendipity in browsing library collections as a reason for the inferiority of doing research in an electronic environment (this is admittedly discussed less now than it used to be).

Many recruiters favor LinkedIn as a way to search for prospects, and the multiple levels of connections mean that serendipity may get your resume noticed.

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As part of the case, a judge ruled Friday that Serendipity Labs, a co-working company that is partnering with UrWork to open the new location, can't use UrWork's name anywhere outside of China on places such as its website, office, or promotional materialAs part of the case, a judge ruled Friday that Serendipity Labs, a co-working company that is partnering with UrWork to open the new location, can't use UrWork's name anywhere outside of China on places such as its website, office, or promotional materialas its website, office, or promotional materials.

I have been giving a lot of thought to the long term plans for my blog as a business so finding this article was serendipity in action!