Sentences with phrase «only by coincidence»

It is only by coincidence that their accounts resemble the truth.

They are brought together not only by the coincidences that link the characters in space and time, but by the defining presence of the historical moment.

Not exact matches

Want a dominant church that just (by coincidence, of course) chooses only it's members for any leadership, along with a few «Token» women and non-whites, just to crush any white males not of the faith that might compete?

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

In view of his supposed rejection of any static logic of identity and contradiction, it is not without interest that Altizer can not acknowledge a dialectical relationship that comes to terms with a coincidence of real opposites but only with such an understanding of dialectics as will lead to its own destruction by the annihilation of the polarity in a final, posthistorical, permanent identity.

One coincidence by itself is not too amazing, but so many can only point to the hand of God.

The only way to create your «coincidence» is by twisting both what your particular version of the bible says, and disregarding what science says where you can't.

By coincidence, I came upon the original recipe last week and since I was looking for a creamier PB cookie experience I tried it with only one alteration — the addition of a drizzle of vanilla extract.

Whether by coincidence or divine intervention, that was the only apartment I've ever lived in that came with a fire extinguisher.»

Somehow, Maureen has a way of saying the bitter truth: Wenger is never under pressure, he's got the best job in the world; trophies can only come to him by coincidence.

Indeed, it is no coincidence that the coalition New Democracy - PASOK government has been the only Greek government of the crisis era that has undergone evaluation by the troika and not been asked to implement further measures.

«It is no coincidence that these new and unsubstantiated accusations only came to light after Speaker Silver and the Ethics Committee were handed an overwhelming defeat by his own hand - picked hearing officer, Howard Levine, in the initial decision of May 12th on my appeal,» Kellner said in a statement.

Kirsten and I have been friends since my days in D.C. and it's only by happy coincidence that she's living in Philly for a short time.

Derek Kolstad's admirably lean script propels the film's galvanizing action with only the barest narrative essentials, quickly dispensing with the series of improbable coincidences necessitated by the initial setup.

The Vogons don't take too kindly to hitchhikers, and after the torture of enduring their leader's poetry, the two cosmic ramblers are sent out into the void of space only, by yet another strange coincidence, to be picked up by the President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell) aboard the recently hijacked ship the Heart of Gold.

The writing, by David Ayer, gives Washington extraordinary fiber — «I'll slap the taste out of your mouth,» Alonzo says — but there's one coincidence so outlandish only Charles Dickens could get away with it.

As if jumping into the likes of Kafka, Austen, and Beatrix Potter's Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies weren't enough, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.

I felt a bit like Goldilocks - one thriller was too macho, another was too gory - only The Fallen was just right, combining well drawn characters with a solidly told police procedural (by which I mean that there are no great leaps of coincidence that lead to the solving of the crime, just sound, time - consuming police - work, following leads up blind allies, and back down again until the right path is explored).

But some seem jaded by the process and talk about it as if they had to give up their first born, or the only reason they eventually found their agent was because of x, y, z, — a lucky coincidence.

Management continuity provided by Gooch is reassuring, though the development of problems only six months after his taking the reins is somewhat troubling; without a clearer vision into the mechanics of the problem one has to consider that this could be mere coincidence.

The death of his wife of a ruptured aneurysm on the brain only weeks after the close of the show seemed to him to be too much of a coincidence for it to have been caused by anything other than the traumatic stress of these prolonged and shameful attacks.

In serendipitous coincidence, a scholarly publication Thank You for Your Love 1994, edited by Xin Wang, curator and art historian based in New York, with contributions from Cindy Xingyi Qi, MA student at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, will be available in the summer of 2018 to closely examine the multifaceted implications of the Transformations gathering not only for the participating artists, but also for the art historical discourses in 1990s New York and that of contemporary Chinese Art.

I tried to get Anthony Watts and company to flesh out exactly how, mechanistically, such a coincidence in timing could be arranged given that the press conference timing is dictated by Nature's publication schedule (and Gore's speech was announced only like the day of or day before the press conference occurred)... and never did really get any reasonable responses.

Wind energy is the only generating technology that has its consent granted by district councils instead of the government — and it's not coincidence, I think, that wind is the only technology that has a planning problem.

The point I was trying to make, was that with only these few variables, you can have lots of temperature variation caused by relatively small changes in one of the parameters and depending on the scale of the changes, or the coincidence of one or more changes acting together, or even opposing each other, the readjustment time of the temperature in the room would vary.

Professor Alain Aspect's alleged proof of entangled photons was just proof of the entanglement of 1st quantization by Bell's Theorem, as criticised by the late Caroline Thompson in her 1999 arxiv paper «Subtraction of «accidentals» and the validity of Bell tests»: «In some key Bell experiments, including two of the well - known ones by Alain Aspect, 1981 - 2, it is only after the subtraction of «accidentals» from the coincidence counts that we get violations of Bell tests.

As you can see by the record temperatures these days it is anything but «minuscule», but you will assert it is only a coincidence that the highest forcing for centuries leads to the highest temperatures.

If by coincidence, certain years are sampled mostly or only from very old trees, this might cause peaks and troughs in the «year effects» that are purely artifacts of the method.

The reality of the matter was that it was an unanticipated situation, and had only arisen by the unfortunate coincidence of what appears to have been the negligent drafting of the credit agreement and the first defendant's mishandling of the claims.

By coincidence, I not only updated my website, I updated my office.