Sentence examples for propitious by from inspiring English sources

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 white phone rings, the equerry wearily takes his hands from his chin, raises the receiver, listens with his long eyelids lowered, and in a trance transfers another chunk of the wealth of Egypt to red, or black, or whatever number is considered propitious by the zodiacal wizards of Alexandria or Cairo.

Besides drying it (which can be done in a kiln, by those in a hurry), exposure to the elements makes the wood's chemistry even more propitious by reducing the levels of chemicals such as tannins, whose astringency can be detrimental to the spirit's flavour.

Butler -- whose books include "A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993, and "Tabloid Dreams" -- tries to fudge this by having Desi say he's merely obeying orders and that the millennium is regarded as a propitious time by humanity.

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.

137 Rodents such as Sprague Dawley rats are particularly propitious to obesity caused by high-fat (cafeteria) diets, due to their polygenic heritage.

Sexual generation, on the other hand, must obey strict rules regarding the physical and moral qualities of the parents and the choice of a propitious time for conception, determined by an astrologer.

P medium was found to be the most propitious medium; the proteins released by local strains (B. sphaericus EMCC 1931 and EMCC 1932) in P medium followed by NYS medium were more lethal than that produced in the other tested media.

This is because the bent state of PLN is not propitious for the SERCA binding by the reason that the cytoplasmic domain in this state is much close to the lipid, far away from SERCA.

It might just be biding its time, but Kagan makes a good case that its geopolitical position is not propitious: while the United States is flanked by oceans, China is encircled by wary, watchful neighbors.

Their attacks were determined not by provocation but by the moment which seemed propitious.