This has not been a propitious foreign-policy beginning.
IT'S a rare and less than propitious moment when dinner out begins with a server asking: "Are you scared?" But that eerie query set the stage for a recent meal at Kobe Club, and it was prompted by one of this bizarre steakhouse's many design oddities.
Gliding out of the pits, Goodwin outlined his 27-year racing career, which took a propitious turn in 1997 when he began driving for McLaren in the F1 GTR, one of the most storied endurance racing cars of the last 50 years.
Wallerstein began her studies at a propitious time.
The summer of 2011, when the American market began to accelerate, did not at the time seem to be a propitious time to invest in the United States.
That changed in the run-up to the 2010 general election, when the party began to connect Euroscepticism with public hostility to immigration from Europe, in increasingly propitious circumstances.
Word to the nonlunar: the Year of the Golden Dragon, which began on Feb. 5 and ends next January, is regarded as an especially propitious year to make business deals, buy property and have a baby.
Nets President Rod Thorn said he was not disappointed, believing that the Nets will be in a better position to make changes when the summer free agency period begins Aug. 1. "I don't think for us that now was really a propitious time," Thorn said in a conference call yesterday.
The Games began Aug. 8, 2008, and the series of eights — eight sounding like the word for "fortune" — is irresistibly propitious.
