Adjective : a fortuitous encounter. ,a series of fortuitous events that advanced her career. From Dictionary.com.
We take things as they come, serene in fortuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [PROBLEM OF EVIL] Reference
For if there is any one thing that the materialists insist upon more resolutely than another, it is the fortuitousness of nature -- the happening by chance of whatever she does. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
And if so, where then would be the fortuitousness that is the very essence of occurrences that glide, undesigned, unexpected, unforeseen, into the domain of Fact, and become material for History?. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
The Mets were indeed fortunate that Mr. Bay, who sat out Thursday's game as a precaution, wasn't hurt worse Wednesday, and that bit of fortuitousness highlighted just how healthy (relatively speaking) the Mets have been all season. From Wordnik.com. [Putting All the Pieces Together] Reference
But it was precisely the fortuitousness, the inevitablity of the sensation which safeguarded the truth of the past it revived, of the images it set free, since we feel its effort to rise upwards to the light and the joy of the real recaptured. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
He consciously tries to impart a sense of the fortuitousness and richness of the everyday, with its jumble of seismic and banal events, and he seems to relish smashing any too-neat frame the analytically inclined reader would impose on his story. From Wordnik.com. [Waste Not, Want Everything] Reference
Reitman liked the song so much that he put it into his film, and while this sort of fortuitousness might be the type of thing you think Oscar dreams are made of, Oscar nomination rules require that a song be written specifically for a film in order to qualify. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Music Update: Up in The Air Song Might Not Qualify For Oscar, Smith Wants Beverly Hills Cop Composer for Couple of Dicks, and James Horner’s Avatar Score Is EPIC | /Film] Reference
Along with the watered-down politically correct liberalism, the master, journeyman, and apprentice alike should express in public their modesty, their lack of divine inspiration (otherwise the system couldn't sell itself as being able to teach craft), and the predominance of sheer luck and fortuitousness in any success they've had. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?] Reference
Nyanja-speaking half-castes of well-sweep and learning have dhressed reinsulated in sugar-beets of life, that appear very brown-whiskered scan-ty to thought or to celestine; so many, that he who disclaims them is slummed to think that he lesquelles enterprise and fortuitousness asking over all external agency, and bidding help and hindrance scamper before them. dionysius of resbalandose was wonderful, and he speakest it with a stern-davit of his devil-dusted. From Wordnik.com. [Blogs That Look Like Blogs But Ain’t – Splogs « Lorelle on WordPress] Reference
But in the thing to be mentioned next, there neither is, nor can be, any talk of fortuitousness at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark] Reference
What surprised me, on looking back at my present sojourn, was the extreme apparent fortuitousness of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of the Dawn] Reference
But in the thing to be mentioned next, there neither is, nor can be, any talk of fortuitousness at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established] Reference
Shaken and thoughtful, I went back to my car and drove homeward, reflecting on the fortuitousness of human actions. From Wordnik.com. [Greener Than You Think] Reference
Such perfection of form, such hollowness that it certainly possessed could not be the result of mere fortuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Red One] Reference
Such perfection of form, such hollowness that it certainly possessed, could not be the result of mere fortuitousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Red One] Reference
Why, it's enough to make one exclaim "what tremendous fortuitousness," or if one were in a hurry, an abbreviated form of said exclamation using only three letters. From Wordnik.com. [Cute Overload] Reference
But Athanasius was one of those rare personalities that derive incomparably more from their own native gifts of intellect and character than from the fortuitousness of descent or environment. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
The answers aren't easy, but that the questions remain testifies to the thin line between invention and pragmatism in experimental filmmaking, as well as the fortuitousness that contributed to. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
There flashed through Frances Durkin's mind, in the momentary silence that fell over that strange company, the consciousness that the triangle was completed; that there, in one room, through a fortuitousness that seemed to her more factitious than actual, stood the three contending and opposing forces. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
Quickness of mind, subtlety of idea, fortuitousness of opportunity, made it possible for some people to right their matrimonial and social infelicities; whereas for others, because of dullness of wit, thickness of comprehension, poverty, and lack of charm, there was no escape from the slough of their despond. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier, a novel] Reference
Shaftesbury endeavors to rise above the fortuitousness of the determination of the moral in Hobbes and Locke, and to attain to a per se valid determination of the same; but after all, he also finds the deciding voice only in the fortuitous feeling of pleasure or displeasure; his empiricism is essentially subjective. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference
You know, perhaps, the type of man or woman who, raised in an atmosphere of comparative comfort and some small social pretension, and being short of those gray convolutions in the human brain-pan which permit an individual to see life in all its fortuitousness and uncertainty, proceed because of an absence of necessity and the consequent lack of human experience to take themselves and all that they do in the most reverential and Providence-protected spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
On the contrary, it is the fortuitousness or the contingency of the encounter which guarantees the necessity of that which it forces to be thought. ". From Wordnik.com. [infinite thØught] Reference
But for two months I had viewed life through Marian Winwood's eyes; day by day, my half-formed, tentative ideas had been laid before her with elaborate fortuitousness, to be approved, or altered, or rejected, just as she decreed; until at last they had been welded into a perfect whole that was a Book, bit by bit, we had planned it, I and she; and, as I dreamed of it as it would be in print, my brain was fired with exultation, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference
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