Sentence examples for the propitious from inspiring English sources

"Why would people have bothered?" John Reader writes in "Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent".

It opened May 7, 1663, in the propitious era of Restoration drama, and produced plays by John Dryden, among others.

Was Grossman trying to win his way back into John Kerry's good graces by dumping Dean at the propitious moment?

Bleak Present, Bleaker Future Burmese people talk hopefully, but passively, about the propitious power of the number 13.

Two new mural-size paintings, from a series called "The Propitious Garden of Plane Image," are his most ambitious to date.

"Why should it be absurd to suggest that the potato changed world history?" John Reader asks in "Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent".

On April 13-14 an estimated four million pilgrims ritually bathed in the Ganges to mark the most propitious day of the festival.

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.

As things go, from the perspective of one particular New Yorker, this was not the most propitious time for the celebration to roll along.

Then came one of the most propitious injuries in the history of rock: Mr. Newsted hurt his shoulder, forcing him to drop out of this tour.

Guay's determination of the most propitious moment for the explosion had been based on a simple-minded faith in the dependability of airline timetables.