Sentence examples for form of chance from inspiring English sources

There is rather the strife of will with itself, manifested by fate in the form of chance and error and by the tragic personages themselves.

The material world may be a desperate chaos of significations, ruled by chance, but human authorship can still be asserted within it, by creating constellations of forms, one of which is the form of chance itself, the constantly changing hazard of inspiration.

The best explanation, in our view, relies on the effects of clonal interference and epistasis, which together give rise to the historically contingent form of chance.

Working in a mode of hands-off abstract painting initiated by Jackson Pollock, overly cultivated by Gerhard Richter and all but rendered moot by Rudolf Stingel, Mr. Sullivan develops his canvases by letting several forms of chance have their way, with the help of forces like gravity and chemical reaction as well as cloudy veils of spray paint.

Change has always come suddenly to Ms. Munro's characters in the form of accidents, chance meetings, illness, bad luck, good fortune, a moment's inattention or a stranger's malice.

In this case happenstance arrives in the form of a chance meeting, as Luntz, having shot Gambol, tears through a beautifully rendered California landscape.

On the positive side, trials can offer patients hope in the form of a chance to try promising treatments not yet available to the public.

Hope of salvation comes in the form of a chance encounter with Henry Fonda, who happens to wander out into the desert, unaware that our narrator has crawled into this vast expanse to die.

It might come in the form of a chance encounter at a writer's conference.

That rash decision comes in the form of a chance meeting with Josh, a dude she dated at camp when she was 16, who offhandedly mentions he's moving to West Covina, California.

- The challenge comes in the form of taking chances, believing in ourself, being courageous, having discipline... doing the work.