Sentences with phrase «on sheer luck»

Instead I had to rely on sheer luck to find entrances to dungeons and new areas in order to progress.

Not exact matches

If you want to improve your ability to intuit effectively, do not depend on wild hunches or sheer luck.

While Reitmans deserves no credit for, let's face it, sheer luck, it warrants kudos for quickly pouncing on the opportunity when the star it hired became a supernova

Fortunes were built on speculation, shrewdness, luck, and sheer determination.

if any of these things going on in my life actually help take me somewhere and help me to become a self supporting, productive person, I guess I'd have to say it was more luck and sheer will power more than anything?

By sheer luck, I just realized that I have all these ingredients on hand — and I think I've just discovered what I'm having for dinner tonight...

We got Wellbek by sheer luck but we missed on the most vital need, the Dm and the CB.

He's hung on to the sport by a thread in the 10 years since, hopping from team to team, getting in cars thanks to his sheer talent and a lot of luck.

Ashley Cole on the other hand will have the eery experience of meeting Frank Lampard with neither of them in Chelsea colours — both were released as free agents in summer by the Blues and by sheer luck drifted back together again.

This team will score goals on set pieces or sheer individual talent, or luck.

The tenacity our Evertonian alumni show when out on the pitch is no result of sheer luck.

Fortunately, a catastrophe was narrowly averted by sheer luck: the ship got stuck on a rock instead of being in open water, where it would have sunk.

«For the first time, this allows us to begin the process of designing and synthesizing new anesthetics based on where and how they work rather than on serendipity and sheer dumb luck,» said Neil Harrison, PhD, associate professor of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago and director of the study, which was carried out in collaboration with Adron Harris, PhD, (UC Denver) and colleagues Eric Greenblatt at Pennsylvania and John Mihic, now at Wake Forest University.

Their sheer presence is thought to be based on luck or certain circumstances, this could not be further from the truth.

Just listening to Philippe Petit rapid fire recounting his tight rope walk between the Twin Towers, and the amount of sheer luck that his plans hinged on, was exhilarating.

Keep in mind that Skull's already gotten his hands on an Infinity Stone in the MCU cannon and then almost won WWII, he only lost basically due to sheer bad luck.

Plot driven rather than character driven, and generous in the sheer amount of story presented, it's a fascinating meditation on luck, lust and morality, and is highlighted by strong performances by Rhys Meyers, as well as Emily Mortimer and Scarlett Johansson as the women in his life.

For when he looked around him, at the books and the tennis court and the folk art on the walls — when he contemplated the countless millions that Niederhoffer had made over the years — he could not escape the thought that it might all have been the result of sheer, dumb luck.

Set aside any extenuating circumstances and sheer bad luck (if applicable), and look at yourself as a number on the page.

I disabled the dams on Mota, explored Dezo's frosty hellish landscapes, collected the eight Nei items, fought more biomonsters and robots than I thought possible, and — through sheer luck and overreliance on save states — defeated Dark Force and Mother Brain.

Whilst the demand for grinding is present in most RPGs though, I felt like I had no choice but to venture through earlier levels again in Penny - Punching Princess — there was rarely an opportunity to tough things out and see if you could progress through a mixture of skill and sheer luck, but instead had a dependence on simply becoming stronger through repetition.

By allowing players to take a slower, more methodical approach to fighting one another, by setting up traps, decoys and calling in supply air drops, would weigh the player experience more on the side of skill, as opposed to sheer luck.

It's been just a matter of sheer luck that Fukishima wasn't much worse than it's turned out to be (so far, knock on wood).

But instead they deny the importance of 28 million weather - balloons, call the missing heat a «travesty», they pretend that if you slap enough caveats on the 1990 report and ignore the actual direct quotes they made at the time, then possibly, just maybe, their models are doing OK, and through sheer bad luck 3000 ocean buoys, millions of weather balloons, and 30 years of satellite records are all biased in ways that hides the true genius of the climate models.

Allan Oziel, a lawyer whose office is on Yonge Street, says that he avoided the area of the attack by sheer luck.