Sentence examples for fortuitous accident from inspiring English sources

From concept to construction, the story of the FastOx is of one fortuitous accident after another.

Robinson's catchy name, which surely helped with the celebrityness, was, according to friends, a fortuitous accident.

One of the two leading candidates, Jack Hathaway William Petersenn), is a senator from Virginia who has just become a national hero after a fortuitous accident that the movie portrays in its opening scene.

A fortuitous accident of geology shaped the coastline of Connecticut into a chockablock mixture of bed-rock (glacial debris made of gneiss and granite) and drift (gravel, sand, silt and clay).

This is why much of the best art has always been a niche phenomenon, and why, when great art is popular, it's often due to a fortuitous accident, and the artist is often punished the next time around (as happened when Terrence Malick followed "The Tree of Life" with "To the Wonder" and "Knight of Cups," and as I hope won't happen with Scorsese's next movie, "Silence").

It was during his acting studies that a fortuitous accident occurred.

Many of the most useful things around today penicillin, smallpox vaccination, X-ray machines started with fortuitous accidents.

The eye is seduced into re-experiencing the decisions, fortuitous accidents and devotion that brought these astounding works into existence.

With a graceful round of self-deceptions and mistaken identities, exquisite rationalizations and fortuitous accidents, Rohmer pierces the glossy veneer of the social scene and the dignified realm of art to reveal the sexual fury that they embody.

Science, however, has become his primary career through what he calls "a series of fortuitous accidents, not any real life plan".

How those new genes popped up and proliferated appears to be a series of small, fortuitous accidents, the study suggests.