Sentence examples for operation of chance from inspiring English sources

Stochastic process, in probability theory, a process involving the operation of chance.

The pyramid paintings, he says, came out of his inability to select a brush, so he bought a multipack and used the lot, combining restriction, indecision and the operation of chance in one fell swoop.

But in a result they perhaps should have seen coming, the pair were only successful in identifying characteristics of the volunteers at a rate of one in five, an outcome "entirely consistent with the operation of chance alone," according to Professor Chris French, of the university's Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit and organiser of the study.

There are deaths, births and reconciliations, but these register less as occasions of feeling than as logical, if surprising, results of the operations of chance, coincidence and fate.

The operations of chance tend, in the long run, to reward goodness and punish the selfishness and lack of consideration that are the nearest things to evil this Paris contains.

Writing a perfect sonnet is at least as difficult as knocking over a bank — and as susceptible to the mysterious operations of chance — but who wants to watch Yeats stare out the window and scratch his head for 90 minutes, even if, in the end, he pulls off "Leda and the Swan"?

She and her husband moved to the Santa Fe area in 1825 and established a highly profitable game-of-chance operation near a mining camp.

But the ritual of chance operation is something else.

Cage developed his aesthetic of chance operation in part through study with the Zen scholar D. T. Suzuki, and shared what he learned with contemporaries like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

The crosscurrent of music and visual art chafing at boundaries is again on display, in an exhibition of photographs inspired by John Cage's pioneering music of chance operations.

Their other game-changing idea concerned the use of chance operations, by which a series of musical and choreographic ingredients were elaborated and then organised by random means.