As he cast about for something to do — or, more specifically, for someone to become — luck arrived in the figure of the thirty-four-year-old poet, playwright, and columnist Langston Hughes.
Yet dumb luck, well-exploited, isn't dumb; or, as Narod puts it, if a person can "take advantage of dumb luck, it becomes smart luck".
If you aren't focused on the ball when it hits you in the hands, catching it becomes pure luck.
The cake has become bad luck, Roman insists.
That kind of platitude indicates how disposable this kind of series can easily become; with luck, "The Fosters" will parlay its charming cast and spark of humor into something more.
Her wonderful latest novel, The Peppered Moth - named after a species where some adapt to a changing environment and survive, and others don't and become extinct (luck rather than judgment, no doubt) - focuses on this idea.
Every "dis," "dat" and "de" was removed; phrases like "dis bag o' luck" became "this bag of luck".
"As I become more and more experienced, it seems that luck becomes ever more important".
"As I become more and more experienced it seems that luck becomes ever more important," Marsh writes.
Here, Some Luck becomes a celebration of old American virtues, but it's also a fervent elegy for something that's been lost.
