This movie's general subject -- that mysterious thing that might be called fate, serendipity, happenstance or luck -- has inspired recent movies, but the Sprecher sisters wield their pop mysticism with breathtaking intelligence and control.
This movie's general subject -- that mysterious thing that might be called fate, serendipity, happenstance or luck -- has inspired a number of recent movies, but the Sprecher sisters wield their pop mysticism with breathtaking intelligence and control.
More through bad luck than serendipity, they assume the identity of a dead couple, Doug and Cherien Rich, and masquerade as a lawyer and a homemaker with three children in private school.
By luck or serendipity, the plaza, built before the first wave of skateboarding's craze arrived, came equipped with everything a street rider could want from a supersize playground: perfectly smooth, wave-shaped embankments (the banks) rising along the length of one side; walls, benches, stairways and granite tree boxes to perform tricks; pillars to climb against; and long stair rails to descend.
"Brands can't just rely on luck and serendipity and just have a post-and-pray strategy" when it comes to Web video, said Dan Greenberg, chief executive of Sharethrough, a San Francisco agency that develops online advertising and social media strategies for Internet content.
Through complete chance, he eventually met Patri in person at a conference in San Jose and through that luck and serendipity, he ended up joining them at the Seasteading Institute.
A new role model appeared before me, and as luck or serendipity would have it, it was the same role model I used to turn to for creative and lifestyle advice as a teenager.
It is not in any way subject to serendipity or luck or chance," Romney said.
Even finding where an artist stood, after 150 years or more, can be an exercise in serendipity and luck.
