Sentence examples for strikingly fortunate from inspiring English sources

Following his vivid down-the-bill supporting roles in Where Eagles Dare and Mutiny on the Bounty, young Irishman Richard Harris to star as Machin proved strikingly fortunate casting by Lindsay Anderson because Harris hailed from Limerick's rugby heartland, where he'd been a star schoolboy player at Crescent College and later won a Munster Cup medal with Garryowen.

"Strikingly so.

Strikingly, no.

A strikingly accomplished debut".

She was strikingly tall.

Many are strikingly young.

That is strikingly low.

Strikingly, it has worked.

Strikingly so, scientists found.

"We are fortunate, very fortunate.

These can be strikingly successful.