Film festivals have spread around the world and across the calendar, but those that take place in September have gained a special cachet in recent years, since they are perfectly timed for the kinds of movies whose fortunes (and chances for awards) might be helped by international attention and critical esteem.
Sherwood had hoped Monday's 5-1 drubbing of Sunderland would spark a revival in fortunes but chances of a swift response were blown when Adebayor's low penalty was easily saved by Ben Foster, after Rose was upended by Amalfitano.
"Gosh," I said, "when that happened, could you believe your luck?" "Luck!" she repeated, "Luck?" Good fortune, the translator supplied helpfully, chance?
And he hopes a change in Irish's fortunes will help his chances of pairing up with Tuilagi again.
In his first thirteen years there, Howells produced three exceptional novels — "A Hazard of New Fortunes" (1890), "The World of Chance" (1893), and "Letters Home" (1903) — that depict a city of chance, fortune, disorder, chaos.
First-round opponent: [10] Andrea Petkovic (GER) Let's reiterate, with 17 women in the women's singles draw, all but three unseeded, there was a pretty good chance fortune wasn't going to favor most of them.
Happ was the Middle English word for "chance, fortune, what happens in the world," McMahon writes, "giving us such words as 'happenstance,'haphazardrd,'haplessss,' and 'perhaps.' " This view of happiness is essentially tragic: it sees life as consisting of the things that happen to you; if more good things than bad happen, you are happy.
Yet Mello's turn of fortunes with grassroots liberals may ultimately have little impact on his electoral chances next month.
As a practical matter, Benjamin's chances of gaining European recognition rose and fell with the military fortunes of the Confederacy.
If the perpetrators escape now with their fortunes intact, the chance of Congress's enacting "tough measures" next year is probably nil.
