Sentence examples for had the serendipity from inspiring English sources

In 1981 Testino had the serendipity to find the perfect perch from which to photograph the route of the wedding of Charles and Diana.

It had the advantage of serendipity.

But he also had the gift of serendipity: when some unexpected phenomenon was observed, he did not hesitate to halt work in progress and turn off course in a new direction.

JORDAN FUCHS "Thicket" starts out looking like an austere warmup routine, but its best parts have the wonderful serendipity of an impromptu children's game.

Home video would not be unwelcome — but the sensuous photographic beauty of these films, the patient attention to shadow and light (where the passage of a cloud or revelation of the sun at critical moments has the classical serendipity of the cloud-shrouded mountain in the funeral sequence of "Red River") demand an acquaintance on the big screen.

The problem is that none of them had the balance of structure and serendipity.

The neighborhood yard sales that pop up all Memorial Day weekend are social, and have the promise of serendipity, but are ultimately inefficient.

His advice: "One should never hesitate to tackle a new unusual project because you're unfamiliar with it". He hopes that future Levin Fellows will also have the experience of serendipity that he encountered at Woods Hole more than five decades ago and shaped an important component of his life's work.

Nothing about what the musicians were doing had changed substantially; the serendipity was all in the hearing.

We as a society need to take steps to foster the kind of creative, curiosity-driven research that cultivates openness to serendipity and has the potential to accelerate medical discoveries as never before.

Time and again, Jon eludes the executioner's stroke; in his rat-witted way, his mixture of schemery and serendipity, he has the born escapee's genius for survival.