Sentences with phrase «sheer dumb luck»

Sheer dumb luck has produced the ones we've purchased.

I've lost plenty more Swords because of sheer dumb luck or a second of lost concentration.

s the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations continue to dominate the news, a movie like «Margin Call» is only going to help stoke the flames, even if it was sheer dumb luck that the protests coincided with its theatrical release.

«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.

As fortune had it, we came up short in both matches, not necessarily due to Wenger's lack of tactical nous, but due to sheer dumb luck.

Not exact matches

He survived because of some sheer, dumb luck.

But even factoring in everything, there is also the matter of sheer, dumb luck and how cruel it can be.

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.