Sentence examples for in a fortunate age from inspiring English sources

"They're living in a fortunate age, but they've also missed out on the fortunes of the age due to their own shortcomings".

In Joanna Smith Rakoff's "A Fortunate Age," the bonds of six Oberlin grads are tested by the strain of trying to make it in Brooklyn at the end of the twentieth century.

A Fortunate Age, by Joanna Smith Rakoff (Scribner; $26).

Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of the novel "A Fortunate Age" and another of Saturday's scheduled readers, felt the same way.

"We are in a fortunate situation," he said.

It's in a fortunate part of the alphabet.

"I think I was in a fortunate position," he said.

P9: "I am in a fortunate position that I can determine my own workplace.

I guess I'm in a fortunate position where financially I don't have to bring in a big income.

Not every country is in such a fortunate situation.

Northern Ireland haven't found themselves in such a fortunate position.