Sentence examples for less propitious from inspiring English sources

THE timing could hardly have been less propitious.

Population density is much higher here, and the geology is much less propitious.

It's difficult to imagine a less propitious week for that argument.

Less propitious was the conservatory liberation statement made later by Eric Pickles.

Now he turns his attention to another Shakespeare play, and one with a less propitious dance history.

And, with fears of fresh terrorist attacks mounting all over Europe, the timing could not have been less propitious.

But a depressed investment climate and then the disruptions of war made the 1930s and 1940s less than propitious times for Europe to emulate America's example.

And in the small, low-ceilinged rooms of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, with its scant collection of childhood toys, I found a model for the way writerly selves can be forged from less than propitious circumstances.

IT'S a rare and less than propitious moment when dinner out begins with a server asking: "Are you scared?" But that eerie query set the stage for a recent meal at Kobe Club, and it was prompted by one of this bizarre steakhouse's many design oddities.

Even to casual observers, the timing seemed less than propitious.

This is an attractive bargain only when more difficult pleasures are more propitious than less difficult ones.