Sentence examples for propitious thing from inspiring English sources

Regrouping into a family unit, in response to a harsher economic climate, is a rational and propitious thing to do – the realistic alternative being a further loss of living standards or mass homelessness.

She's certain Vishnu won't be able to drink it and hates "the idea of good tea being wasted," but she also knows that "giving tea to a dying man was surely a very propitious thing to do".

It's a tantalizing prelude to this concert, in a room where propitious things have happened for him before.

Like Sir John Woodroffe and Georg Feuerstein, many Tantric scholars (as well as sincere practitioners) agree that, no matter how propitious or appalling you describe them, Shiva and Devi are simply recognizable symbols for everyday, abstract (yet tangible) concepts such as perception, knowledge, space-time, causation and the process of liberating oneself from the confines of such things.

Their timing was propitious; new technology let designers do radical things with the composition and manufacture of type that were impossible in the predigital world.

Whether Labour will prosper in the south outside London, where it lacks both councillors and MPs, is less clear.Although the London race looks increasingly propitious for Labour, it may not be such a bad thing for the party if Mr Johnson hangs on.

They seem naturally discomfited by the vast disconnect in our thinking about them, which can readily dismiss such things as the centuries of begrudging but mutually propitious interludes that were required to render a wolf a dog; or that can transform 400-pound tigers into apartment dwellers or apparently cute cuddle toys twirling atop glass balls.

The timing of his birth was considered propitious; in Nepalese astrology, having an eldest son in December signals good things to come.

This method will be propitious to prevent Ag NPs from aggregation which is one of the most important things for defining their catalytic performance.

"It is a propitious time to raise the question and be very pointed in some of the things that we believe".

— Heaven prosper the manufactures of paper under this propitious reign, which is now open'd to us, — as I trust its providence will prosper every thing else in it that is taken in hand.