Even more fortuitous, one slave knew of a hidden path that led right to the area.
But even given fortuitous timing — right after the extensively covered murder trial of Casey Anthony, who was charged with killing her daughter, and the personal aggrievement many people expressed at the not-guilty verdict — the play comes off as dated.
For Mr. Schwartz, that historical detail makes the timing of this sculpture even more fortuitous, as an African-American senator from Lincoln's home state campaigns for the presidency.
Even if fortuitous events lead to a better Middle East twenty years from now, future historians will criticize the way Bush distributed the risks and costs of his actions.
The rocks still radiate heat even though a fortuitous cloudburst put out the flames weeks before.
Artists have even, in a fortuitous stroke that is surely not entirely coincidental, borrowed a philosophical stance from science, which proposed the principles of uncertainty, possibility and ambiguity long before the postmodernist philosophers did.
We would like to add the role of the New Ballard Scoring and, as they may help clinch the diagnosis, even where suggestive fortuitous circumstances as in this case (distinct marker separating the two fertilizations in the form of bleeding on implantation of first ovum) are not available.
The movie becomes softer as it proceeds, granting Ferrell fortuitous and even miraculous encounters with beautiful, sympathetic women: Rebecca Hall and Laura Dern.
While she had not, in fact, exclusively broken the case, she had, perhaps even better, found a fortuitous publishing moment for it.
But even without the grimly fortuitous topicality conferred by Sept. 11 and the current military response, "Baran," the new film from the Iranian director Majid Majidi, would be necessary viewing.
