Sentence examples for and propitious from inspiring English sources

In the majority of cases, children are given "good," likable, and propitious names.

This building was also once a synagogue, a fact that Whiteread finds oddly circular and propitious.

Other symbolic ceremonies, such as eating bread and apples dipped in honey, accompanied with prayers for a "sweet" and propitious year, are performed at the festive meals.

It is also a prototype, an analogue, and an apology — an illuminating and propitious way to consider his games, or, for that matter, anyone else's.

Like a service magazine, the show foams with helpful hints and propitious recipes as its team steers schlubs and slobs toward self-improvement.

Regrouping into a family unit, in response to a harsher economic climate, is a rational and propitious thing to do – the realistic alternative being a further loss of living standards or mass homelessness.

Sometimes Rousseau favors a procedural story according to which the individual contemplation of self interest (subject to the constraints of generality and universality and under propitious sociological background conditions such as rough equality and cultural similarity) will result in the emergence of the general will from the assembly of citizens.

It turns out that the hours between four and six are a sacred moment of the day to the Maori (who pronounce their name "Mawdi," with a soft "d")—the threshold between darkness and light, and, therefore, propitious for a powhiri, a greeting ceremony.

G.M. and many other corporations because of government pressure, labor shortages, and unusually propitious economic conditions after the Second World War did wind up adopting something like his model.

Using a person's birth date, Vedic astrologers create charts to determine a lucky number and provide propitious dates for major events.

Hamilton wrote of the President, "He is a man of an imagination sublimated and eccentric; propitious neither to the regular display of sound judgment, nor to steady perseverance in a systematic plan of conduct... and to this defect are added the unfortunate foibles of a vanity without bounds, and a jealousy capable of discoloring every object".