Sentence examples for providential encounter from inspiring English sources

But even the most dedicated Who fanatic would find it hard to argue that this providential encounter determined the band's future.

I liked him"), and then came the providential encounter: "He just appeared at my door with a copy of my first book in his hand and started reciting a handful of poems by heart," Kunitz told me.

Reading this story, and others with a similar design, I noticed that I was thinking, somewhat unhappily, of the adage about the shoeless individual cured of self-pity by a providential encounter with a man who has no feet.

A letter of Roethke's indicates that they had met the previous March ("I had dinner with Stanley Kunitz," he wrote to Humphries. "He has plenty of stuff, I think. I liked him"), and then came the providential encounter: "He just appeared at my door with a copy of my first book in his hand and started reciting a handful of poems by heart," Kunitz told me.

It encountered and overcome, through the providential operation of God, as manifested in creaturely freedom.

It was providential, really.

Sees Allies' Note as Providential.

It was a providential move.

For Kucinich, the story seemed providential.

"It is a providential moment for Poland.

That is, no Providential direction was required.