Sentence examples for fortuitous as from inspiring English sources

As Dubuffet observed: "In Ossorio's eyes, the embodiment of things seems fortuitous, as inessential as the fact, for example, that a gas may assume a liquid state.

If the above hypothesis were correct, escape of parasites from T cell recognition, in the mammalian host, would therefore be fortuitous, as has been proposed for both Plasmodium [44] and Theileria [45].

Fortuitous as it was, the goal gave them confidence.

"It was really fortuitous as we were really bearish and very hedged throughout the year".

Fortuitous as it is, the head is not precisely random: the pirate has already appeared in the play.

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.

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.

But most finds are fortuitous, and as was reported recently large pieces of ambergris washed ashore can be worth many thousands of dollars.

Ideally, the concept will correspond to a real definition that latches onto the nature of the thing, the way 'rational mortal animal' is thought to be the real definition of 'human being', regardless of other associated features (even necessary features such as risibility) or fortuitous images (as any mental image of a human will be of someone with determinate features).

There can have been few programmes in recent memory with as fortuitous a launch as Channel 4's gastro-reality-game-thing, The Taste.

"The fact that it was Germany which went down to defeat in this Materialschlacht was almost fortuitous; it might as well have been any of her enemies".