Sentence examples for in a fortuitous from inspiring English sources

In a fortuitous moment, they met one of its composer, Robert Lopez, who invited them to drinks.

So the First Folio and the first Americans became informally twinned in a fortuitous assertion of originality.

In one, rectilinear streets divided the frame, but some rooftops also appeared to form, in a fortuitous counterpoint, a spiral — Lagos, self-organizing.

In a fortuitous twist, the firefighters from Ladder 2 had recently been trained on how to respond to emergencies in confined spaces or vertical shafts, said Frank Dwyer, a Fire Department spokesman.

Artists have even, in a fortuitous stroke that is surely not entirely coincidental, borrowed a philosophical stance from science, which proposed the principles of uncertainty, possibility and ambiguity long before the postmodernist philosophers did.

The latter brought up the 50 partnership for the second wicket in a fortuitous manner, thumping a full delivery down the throat of Mandeep Singh at long-off only for the fielder to spill a simple catch and see the ball trickle sorrily over the boundary rope.

They met at GQ in 1992, a fortuitous unification of fellow travelers.

In 1942, a fortuitous encounter at Macy's gave the Lavernes a huge career boost: Erwine was shopping for cork place mats to be used instead of linen, and he became disgusted with the selections.

That's where Selfridges is in quite a fortuitous position because, although we don't have many stores, we were able to create this sort of sense of theater, the sense of other stuff going on.

December 5, 1947, Maywood, California, U.S .. Bursting with talent, Buffalo Springfield formed in 1966 following a fortuitous encounter in a Los Angeles traffic jam between Stills and Furay (veterans of the Greenwich Village folk scene) and Young and Palmer (Canadians drawn to the "hip" epicentre of the burgeoning folk rock movement).

The timing of the rescue, which occurred while Mr. McCain was in Colombia, was in many ways a fortuitous turn of events for a presidential candidate who is using a three-day trip to South America and Mexico to try to show that he is a more agile foreign policy hand than his Democratic competitor, Senator Barack Obama.