Sentences with phrase «when happenstance»

When the happenstances are out of our control, blaming others just diverts our attention away from what we should do next.

Not exact matches

Humans adapt and rationalize problems so it may seem that there was a reason something happened when it was just happenstance.

I rather just come alongside people as time and happenstance allow, and encourage others when their situation resonates with me.

By pure happenstance I was there last November one day after Thanksgiving when the first tourist ship sank of [off] the coast of the peninsula.

We may represent this as the Little Bang of the writer's or scientist's inspiration, thinking analogously of the Big Bang, that prime - moving happenstance when the universe blew out into its dimensions, exploding in one silent flash into the volume and chronology of space - time.

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.

Happenstance occurs when both sets are booked in the same room, and though they initially don't get along, they soon get tipsy, then smashing drunk, and wake up the next morning to find that, sometime during their night of drunken debauchery, they have gotten married.

Fogelman was jump - started to write the script when he learned of a bizarre happenstance in the life of a songwriter and musician named Steve Tilston, who, in 2005, came upon a supportive fan letter John Lennon had written to him in 1971 but that he had never received.

The next page tap is now on the bottom of the text when in landscape, which somehow seems a natural place for it to be — a lucky happenstance.

It was by sheer happenstance that I found out about the game this way; I rarely visited game websites when I was younger, and it wasn't until Kingdom Hearts that I really had a reason to do so.

He recounts a boyhood spent in drive - in theaters and dirt tracks, honing a life and a style that had little to do with the world of square day jobs he entered after leaving Chouinard in 1963, when, through sheer happenstance, an unemployment agency handed him a job as art director at the studio of his hero, Ed» «Big Daddy»» Roth.

To Cloninger, this parallels nature in its ability to sway between chaos and organization — when one looks at a vista, there is a «random order» visible, however, up close, nature is messy and happenstance, there is no certainty to it.

Whether by choice or happenstance, The Creek remained in Hartrath's possession until 1936, when it won a purchase prize in the summer Hoosier Salon, held at Lake Wawasee, Indiana.

Generally, when one startling random happenstance occurs in close proximity to another, it's not unreasonable to wonder if they're connected.

But, just as in medicine where we have to ask what the natural history of a disease is (natural ups and downs can fool you into thinking that a treatment is working when it's just happenstance), we need to know what the natural history of flushing failure is.

But that all changed when she received a call, «truly by happenstance.»

«By confining the Clause to vacancies that arise during a recess, Noel Canning makes the President's ability to fill offices turn on the happenstance of when the previous holder left office,» Brinkmann wrote.

When I initially made mine several years ago, it was happenstance.