Sentences with phrase «with dumb luck»

Sometimes levels will experience a sudden difficulty spike, but honing your skills and persevering will eventually lead you to success, rather than winning with dumb luck.

How they fared in retirement had a lot to do with dumb luck.

From there, the legend grows, mostly with dumb luck.

Not exact matches

A good deal of RE income and some dumb luck (and significant) capital gains on a few properties combined with a small inheritance helped quite a bit.

You might even hurt millions, or billions (and its just plain dumb luck, as you can see from the war mongering and stupidity of «religious» political leaders, like McCain, et al, who have said it would be a dandy idea to nuke Iran, that the body count has been higher due to people with lots of weapons, and countries full of people, who where duped into following insane people, because they where tired of the failure of priests to make the world better.)

The first time I made this recipe, I thought I just had dumb luck (gluten free baking with coconut flour is like so hit and miss).

The Bengals can probably credit luck for part of that since the fight at their practice started with Vontaze Burfict diving at Gio Bernard's knees, which ranks as the dumbest fight in any camp so far.

Entrepreneur Barry Narod credits «dumb luck» for the chance to turn his postdoc work into a thriving business with clients in 17 countries on four continents.

«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.

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.

Many first - time Hunters muscle their way through to a fight, struggle with the notoriously unresponsive manual camera, get the stuffing knocked out of them and conclude, savagely, that the game is a ponderous, superficial button - masher with a high element of dumb luck.

Wymark as the inspector is the central character, who's the antithesis of Sherlock Holmes, trying to figure out the perpetrator of the violent crimes more by hit and miss and dumb luck than with logic and deduction.

These outlaws don't get away with crime on pure dumb luck.

Even when Fabious is away on a quest to kill this or that mythical beast in service of the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), the brothers» father King Tallious (Charles Dance) never stop praising his elder son, while wondering how Thadeous could so royally screw up a peace treaty with a nearby dwarf tribe (shown in the opening scene, which, through its display of Thadeous» dumb luck in escaping hanging due to dwarf - sized engineering, is the movie's funniest).

The steep slopes fill the windshield with blue sky and picking a decent line among the dips and humps is more than dumb luck.

-- Dumb luck has a lot more to do with this career than you think.

Every writer faces a moment in her career when she realizes that a good part of success has nothing to do with skill or planning, and everything to do with pure, dumb luck.

Progressing through «Doom» requires internalizing the patterns of one's demonic adversaries to such a degree that one responds to their attacks with precision rather than acting on dumb luck.

It's something that can often feel a little to fast and frantic for its own good with kill sometimes feeling more like dumb luck at being in the right place at the right time instead of skill.

Balls move and bounce around the table with a convincing sense of weight and momentum making shots a case of skill and judgement instead of dumb luck and a lot of hoping.

The missions, which, in the GTA series, could too often be won or lost based on dumb luck alone, are both entertaining and challenging, with none of the objectives dangling on the placement of NPCs or the inconsistent AI of your enemies that plagued past Rockstar efforts.

Nailing your opponents with precision (and sometimes dumb luck) is extremely gratifying.

Some people making mistakes will get bailed out by dumb luck with appreciation but that is gambling and not investing.