Sentence examples for merely fortuitous from inspiring English sources

Sometimes this is intentional and sometimes it is merely fortuitous, but in either case it escapes the notice of uninformed outsiders.

It was, as the judge put it, merely "fortuitous" that the mechanism had not, in turn, lit the explosive powder.

It was, as the judge put it, merely "fortuitous" that the mechanism had not in turn lit the explosive powder.

There is much wisdom in Lin's work--about how we function psychosocially, or fail to--and frankly as a reader of contemporary verse I could give a damn about whether a bona fide on-the-page phenomenon is deliberate or merely fortuitous.

Any additional ventilatory loss of metabolic acid may be merely fortuitous (and this would explain why the hyperventilation never fully compensates for the metabolic acidosis).

It wasn't just fortuitous, that was why it started.

Leaving aside the contested subject of numerical underpinning in Bach's work (with the number three representing the Trinity), it would seem it merely presented a fortuitous, playful opportunity to reveal both a wealth of serious modern research and to curate some of the best recordings ever made to further enhance our appreciation of one of western art's most profound creators.

But this fortuitous situation couldn't last.

Hence the social contract is not fortuitous or merely conventional or second-best: it arises from and meets a natural need.

"That just sort of felt fortuitous," Bird told me.

(Peeled off, those sheets became a species of chance monoprints that, like the tracings, defy categorization: are they art works or merely, in the phrase of one art historian, "work product"? Their fortuitous beauty is enough for some people; there is a market for them).