Sentence examples for a propitious start from inspiring English sources

Collins published "The Woman in White" in 1860, a propitious start to the decade in which he did his best work.

Settling in the dead Plath's bed was not a propitious start to hers and Hughes's relationship: this much-married woman was finally forsaken by the one man she most wanted to spend her life with.

A mystery train — in this case the sleek, high-speed Italo, the first private competitor to Italy's state-run railway — seemed a propitious start to a conversation with Mr. Parks about his new book, "Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo," in which he explores his adopted country through its trains, the lifeblood of a fragmented nation.

This year Italy will once again have the slowest-growing economy in the European Union.The centre-left opposition, led by a former prime minister (and former president of the European Commission), Romano Prodi, could hardly have wished for a more propitious start to an election year.

Hardly a propitious beginning for someone going it alone.

But where Harold Pinter's Betrayal goes steadily back in time from the bitter end of a relationship to its seemingly propitious start, Blue Valentine hops around over some six or seven years as the couple reflect on their lives.

Herod's law ReprintsIt was not the most propitious start, especially since two of his best-known supporters decided to pull out of the race.

Although it was hardly a propitious time to start a business, Dillard's prospered almost from the start.

This is not a propitious time to start a channel.

Born on March 14 , 1909 in Philadelphia, Robert Serber earned a bachelor's degree from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., in 1930, and his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Wisconsin in 1934 during the Depression -- not a propitious time to start looking for a permanent university job.

Jenny (64 years old, HIV-positive for 23 years) described a situation of disclosure in a propitious setting: " I started talking without ever thinking I was going to tell the person about it.