Sentence examples for Unpredictable fortunes from inspiring English sources

Despite the unpredictable fortunes of books, I'll hazard a few general rules of what makes a title endure.

The ever-shifting power dynamic in the occupied nation and the unpredictable fortunes of war tend to undermine even the best-planned attempts to be authoritative.

There's good evidence that gamblers are hooked, not by sure wins but by lucky wins, unpredictable good fortune.

So, on the one level, the wild swings in the teams' fortunes were unpredictable; momentum, as it does in a Newton's Cradle, passed from one side to the other with no discernible movement in between.

Fortunes are as unpredictable as ever, with bigger swings of weather variability.

A man who had answered every tricky question, from every angle, about the fortunes of his unpredictable cricket team suddenly seemed happy to seek shelter from the corruption storm swirling all around him.

The sudden reversal of fortune reflected the unpredictable nature of a war that has raged across 220 miles of a coastline that stretches more than 1,000 miles.

If final tallies confirm that Mr. Golisano is the winner, he and his large personal fortune will become an unpredictable force in an election that otherwise pits the low-key Mr. Pataki against the low-key state comptroller, Carl McCall.

The fortunes of the two were unpredictable and erratic.

And as Napoleon himself believed, the fortunes of war, being notoriously unpredictable, are ruled by the Goddess of Chance.

Naturalist John James Audubon took a look in 1846 and pronounced it "most melancholy". Since the early 1900s, when buccaneer capitalists organized the Imperial Land Co. and began large-scale irrigation, its fortunes have depended on the unpredictable farm economy.