Sentence examples similar to an auspicious situation from inspiring English sources

It was hardly an auspicious start, but once I got onto the mission grounds themselves, the situation improved.

Not an auspicious start.

Not an auspicious beginning.

Even an auspicious Princeton graduation?

That was an auspicious start.

It was an auspicious vote.

Each was an auspicious occasion.

"It's an auspicious year".

Still, not an auspicious start.

It was not an auspicious beginning.

It seemed an auspicious occasion.