The choice seems only partly propitious.
ICM tested Scottish voters' attitudes on a range of specific policy questions, which only confirmed the propitious mood for the new SNP leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, as well as for her predecessor, Salmond, who is seeking to make a high profile return from Holyrood to Westminster in May.
Along the way, the route passes through important Celtic settlements — Andorra, Nimes — indicating that the Celts founded communities largely only in spots deemed propitious by their druid astronomers.
The timing would be propitious, if only because next month will see Oprah Winfrey drop the curtain for the last time on her syndicated show as she focuses on running her new cable channel, OWN.
There may be local and topical distractions, but by and large Updike's scenes and characters express a propitious America, mottled only by metaphysical ruminations.
He thinks it helped, but only because the economic circumstances were propitious.
Only when the environment becomes super-propitious can parents afford more children without compromising those they already have—and only then, as Dr Myrskyla has now elucidated, does the birth-rate start to rise again.How far the process will continue, and whether it will spread to holdouts like Japan and Canada, remains to be seen.
But the times were propitious for something new.
This is an attractive bargain only when more difficult pleasures are more propitious than less difficult ones.
The sheer desire to just be there, at this propitious moment in time, so overwhelmed individuals that they felt they just needed to see for themselves what to many had until only recently been unthinkable.
