RG: By fortuitous coincidence, my idea of setting the story in Kansas fit in with Louise's return there in 1940, after her Hollywood career had dissolved away.
Under such circumstances, we are simply determined in our ideas by our fortuitous and haphazard encounter with things in the external world.
"It was sort of fortuitous... because I had no idea that I was going to go into ob-gyn".
Parekh began pitching his idea to venture capitalists and had a fortuitous encounter with Rocket Internet, the digital-focused VC firm with a startup incubator, based in Berlin.
In more recent times, a comparable attitude was discernible beneath Arnold Toynbee's uncompromising repudiation of the idea that history is "a chaotic, disorderly, fortuitous flux, in which there is no pattern or rhythm of any kind to be discerned".
Around that time the tents were moving from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center, and I thought that was possibly very fortuitous, because I know that fashion tends to have a younger audience, if we could somehow marry the two ideas.
Compensating errors in Adams's measurements and in Eddington's ideas of the temperature and radius of Sirius B had produced a fortuitous agreement (Sirius B is even smaller than Eddington thought).
The idea is still very much a hypothesis, although some fortuitous evidence comes from Denmark.
However, Spurs had other ideas and after Rose had halved the deficit with his fortuitous strike, Kane once again stepped forward as Spurs' saviour this season.
It is inconsistent to invoke this idea, which attempted to minimize the amount of evolutionary work done by fortuitous chance, while at the same time allowing for an unspecified number of originally neutral mutations to play an inherent role in the evolution of adaptation, as is currently done for example in the case of de novo genes.
