Unfortunately George already has a girlfriend, a colorless co-worker (Shelley Winters) who has the bad timing to become pregnant - and the bad luck to fall out of a rowboat, accompanied only by a man who has mixed feelings about saving her.
Manson's followers had the terrible luck to fall into the path of a genuine psychopath.
This slice of luck certainly falls in line with "Platini's plan".
Good luck falling asleep tonight.
Sometimes you just have a bad run of luck where you fall a lot - but that probably has to do with being stressed, physically tense, and trying too hard to keep out of trouble meaning you can actually cause crashes by trying to avoid them, as other guys can't predict your movements.
Sentences such as "When Carla first declared herself as completely available to him, body and soul, was about six weeks after that spring day in Brooklyn," or "Bad luck had fallen like a storm of excrement," do not swing at all.
In this exercise, we seek to undo the effect of brute luck but not option luck, that former being luck that falls on you in ways beyond your power to control and the latter being luck that you can avoid, and maybe reasonably avoid, by voluntary choice.
Because not only does luck fall far outside the ordered rows of science, but where health is concerned, luck is far too arbitrary, too unfeeling, too senseless an explanation for any of us to accept.
By choosing firms at the top of their game, and often their luck, it can fall into the trap common to most business books—survivor bias.
No such luck; the ball fell through.
