Sentence examples for fortunate encounter from inspiring English sources

While we were waiting, we had our first fortunate encounter.

Ours has been to stock not just those titles our core customers would expect to find, but to second-guess those customers and offer books to surprise and excite them (what Gabriel Zaid calls "a fortunate encounter").

A fortunate encounter with a child his own age finally brings him to his relative who is not at all happy that he has come.

The captains of these Spanish ships had unwittingly sailed into the midst of the blockade fleet the previous night, but had had a fortunate encounter with a Spanish fishing vessel which had warned them of the danger.

She then moved to the United States, where, thanks to the fortunate encounter with her future mentor, Erwin Böttinger, she worked as a research fellow in the Renal Division of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

I had some fortunate encounters.

Giuliano's current work with the city resulted from a series of fortunate encounters.

Other runners, like Jim Ryun and Frank Shorter, were fortunate to encounter gifted coaches early in their careers.

William is especially fortunate to encounter a young man trudging naked and mudcaked on a back road.

Homesick, Franklin returned to London and joined the Markova-Anton Dolin ballet, where he first partnered Markova and was fortunate to encounter Bronis- lava Nijinska, who became the company's ballet mistress.

During my trip, I was fortunate to encounter a young man who also defies characterization.