How To Use Fortuitous In A Sentence

His entry into the takeaway arena was somewhat fortuitous. Times, Sunday Times
His success depended on a fortuitous combination of circumstances.
True, their equaliser was somewhat fortuitous. Times, Sunday Times
Personally, I think it is very fortuitous that this kind of hankering back and forth and subtle "adjustments" of positions this earrly is good for th candidates. McCain And Obama Battle It Out Over Supreme Court Handgun Decision
Violence itself becomes a means of reassurance, a fortuitous opportunity through which the strength of re-enforced steel is tested.

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This fortuitous and timely development supports faculty initiatives.
Her presence at his side felt more unbear-ably fortuitous than ever. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
And he concludes, after referring to the fortuitous duty-free shopping interlude I shared with Bashar en route back to London from Damascus, by remarking: By this time, Michael, whos a very engaging personality, is a friend of the family! A Question of Honour
It's deliciously grown-up, avoiding slapstick in favour of fortuitous mishap.
Yet all of the various elements which have historically been assigned to Fortune, Fate, and Chance are gathered into a single providential system of which the fortuitous is a part. FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE
He got into the trade in Algiers through "a fortuitous accident ". A Social History of Modern Spain
The trenchant symbolism of his pictures is essentially alien to the Dada conception of randomness and fortuitous juxtaposition.
This would have been impossible but for one fortuitous circumstance. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
The allusion to clouds is anything but fortuitous, emphasizing as it does the link between the sound of drums and thunder.
The Sunday school version of the relationship between Moses, the lawgiver, and Aron, the communicator, is one of fortuitous complementarity, a Hebrew Bobby and Jack Kennedy. Archive 2006-10-01
And then one morning, quite fortuitously, the opportunity came. Chapter 20
Since Fortuna is a personification of the fortuitous, and the fortuitous is a branch of the chain of causality, its normal place in the providential scheme is within the realm of Fate, which is the unfolding of Providence in multiplicity and time. FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE
The timing of the meeting is certainly fortuitous.
Fortuitously, it happened that I was looking in to the valley with the airport in it.
In our analysis, we took advantage of these fortuitous differences by incorporating weather as a categorical factor.
SIMMONS: But it is fortuitous and fatuitous that it came out at the right time. CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2008
It also coincided, perhaps fortuitously for Mr Lukashenka, with an uncomfortable few weeks for Russia's Vladimir Putin.
This would have been impossible but for one fortuitous circumstance. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Aristotle; all those subsequently repeated by Lucretius and Ovid; all the experiments of the renowned Abbé Spallanzani -- all the alleged "fantastic assumptions" of M. Bonnet -- all the theories of "panspermism," by whomsoever advocated -- all the fortuitous aggregations of "_molecules organiques, _" as put forth by the French school of materialists -- all the Life: Its True Genesis
It may well be that the words were the fortuitous effect of wind, but the message they convey is clear, and I think our subjects would not gamble on the fortuity.
There was certainly no design behind any of it, but as it happened, it was a pretty fortuitous accident. Times, Sunday Times
Make no mistake this was a hard won if rather fortuitous victory but like recent games it needn't have been so.
The situation in war fluctuates, it is many-sided and contradictory; it blends together the essential and the superficial, the law-governed and the fortuitous, the old and the new.
He got into the trade in Algiers through "a fortuitous accident ". A Social History of Modern Spain
A brand mostly known by fans of extreme sports, preferably of the motorized variety, BRM stands for Bernard Richards Manufacture, an acronym fortuitously and conveniently identical to that of British Racing Motors, the 1962 world champion Formula One team. NYT > Home Page
Jones had written that ` One sometimes hears of miners earning substantial sums when working in peculiarly fortuitous circumstances. Revisiting Orwell's Wigan Pier
By this perverseness of integrity he was driven out a commoner of nature, excluded from the regular modes of profit and prosperity, and reduced to pick up a livelihood uncertain and fortuitous; but it must be remembered that he kept his name unsullied, and never suffered himself to be reduced, like too many of the same sect, to mean arts and dishonourable shifts. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
The reliance on coincidence or the fortuitous is often questionable, but the results at the same time are never quite incredible. Great Scot
Professor's radical ideas on happiness have caught on in business world search a few days ago, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's name fortuitously popped up in the drop-down box. WN.com - Business News
There were also a couple of fortuitous inside edges that just missed his leg stump. Times, Sunday Times
It is not fortuitous that the key is D minor, a tonality traditionally associated with quest, especially by the Viennese classics, and perhaps by the High Baroque masters as well.
The term ‘perils of the sea’ refers only to fortuitous accidents or casualties of the seas.
That was a fortuitous rebound, but he seemed to dispatch it so quickly with his left, not his favoured foot. The Sun
Was it love, she wondered, or a mere fortuitous combination of happy thoughts and sensations? The House of Mirth
Dr. Conrad Murray "fortuitously" found Michael Jackson unconscious in his Los Angeles bedroom, WN.com - Articles related to Cold and Flu? Not You!
As an aside, the report does not indicate whether any underlying eye disease was fortuitously diagnosed by the ophthalmological referrals.
Although the law of equalized field allotments destroyed badly had its fortuitousness, productive forces development and historical progress was its inevitable results.
By a fortuitous coincidence, it involves some real handcuffs.
The trespasser, quite fortuitously, is Judge Witberg. “Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!”
Also not happy is Coventry City's Gary McSheffrey, who has started recent games as a substitute but came off the bench to score the winner in last night's fortuitous 2-1 win over Doncaster Rovers – and promptly ran to Aidy Boothroyd and informed him what he thinks of his selection policy, earning himself a fine for abusing the manager. Gary Madine shrugs off brush with law to inspire Carlisle United
The posterity for commemorates this fortuitous encounter to construct five Hushan in this.
Krutak has been unemployed since quitting a job in July at a nonprofit, timing she called fortuitous in light of the Occupy movement. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The goal was the key score, and a rather fortuitous one.
profits were enhanced by a fortuitous drop in the cost of raw materials
On a similar theme, red is a lucky or fortuitous colour so wedding banquets in Japan tend to have red food included.
Her years with MMC would turn out to be fortuitous for Britney.
Despite pressing for much of the second half it was Knockmay who got a fortuitous goal in a goalmouth scramble.
Only a courageous tackle by young Matthews and a fortuitous hack on saved the day as West Leeds attacked.
The biggest single problem for the regime is the oppressed, contentious Shi'ite minority, who are fortuitously located just where the largest oil deposits sit.
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He's got me twice now and a young woman who passed me on Sunday afternoon told me that only a fortuitously placed handbag had spared her an embarrassing and painful nip.
Their success is the result of a fortuitous combination of circumstances.
Although the law of equalized field allotments destroyed badly had its fortuitousness, productive forces development and historical progress was its inevitable results.
A fortuitous occurrence was something that happened by good fortune and not merely by chance or accident.
The fact that the claimant was a trespasser is, from the defendant's point of view, purely fortuitous.
Sometimes she wondered whether he had intended her to find it, whether it was fortuitous that he had forgotten to clear out the pockets of his jeans on the one evening when she always took their dirty clothes to the washeteria. She Closed Her Eyes
There were also a couple of fortuitous inside edges that just missed his leg stump. Times, Sunday Times
The timing of the meeting is certainly fortuitous.
As I spoke I groped through all my pockets until, fortuitously I found a single, coin, dredged it out and passed it over. 2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
In the first instance, he was saved by the fortuitous destruction of his papers in an Allied bombing raid.
She was also helped by a fortuitous circumstance.
A series of fortuitous circumstances advanced her career.
That was a fortuitous rebound, but he seemed to dispatch it so quickly with his left, not his favoured foot. The Sun
He got his reward when he gave his team the lead, albeit in fortuitous circumstances, from one of their first attacks. The Sun
Combe though soon struck back after another Havant attack, which included more fortuitous hacks, was intercepted by Knuckley who took play deep into the home 22.
However, their influences on the literary arena actually presented the enormous difference, which is a fortuitousness that respective condition caused.
There things might have stayed, except for a rapid and fortuitous concatenation of circumstance and opportunity.
Henry benefitted from several fortuitous breaks of the ball, but took full advantage as King's game began to unravel.
We were a fantastic and fortuitous accident. The Sun
An 'interiority' too superficial to contact the truth lying at life's center; which no longer reaches the essential and everlasting, but remains somewhere just under the skinlevel of the provisional and the fortuitous. La nouvelle théologie
But he's the first to admit that, "I'm 10 years into being aware of my addictions and in those 10 years, my life has gotten fortuitously better and better. Tom Hardy, from 'Warrior' battles to Batman brawls
Maybe you could illustrate the concept by describing the data or experiment which would conclusively rule out or confirm Brayton's "fortuitous origin of traits later to be exapted" hypothesis? Another predictable argument against front-loading
This would have been the case if, as you suppose, the hoodoo were a myth begotten of a series of fortuitous events. The Hoodoo of the Minnietta
True, their equaliser was somewhat fortuitous. Times, Sunday Times
It would be another man's name, another fortuitous match of an unused life and a sociopath 's inexplicable mission. THE LAST PLACE
This would have been impossible but for one fortuitous circumstance. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Hence it is plain that they achieve their end, not fortuitously, but designedly.
« His latest album proposes in solo, an intimist reading of fifteen revolutionary songs of different periods in time and of different regions of the world, melodies that events in time or fortuitous meetings have happened to transform into symbols of resistance, melodies strongly laden with political emotion. AvaxHome RSS:
By what accidental or fortuitous happening the atoms have dropped out of their scientific categories, and the molecules have been advanced to their commanding place in _absolute accidentalness_, is one of those unassignable causes in which they apparently so much delight. Life: Its True Genesis
The news media are not charged with the duty of full court reporting, and it is necessarily fortuitous as to whether remarks upon sentence are reported or not.
The road to the professional drama circuit was rather fortuitous.
The discovery of the fraud was made 'fortuitously' when the emails were found and forwarded to police. Home | Mail Online
Hence it is plain that not fortuitously, but designedly, do they achieve their end.
On this happy occasion of our graduation from the Landscape Institute, I could talk about how I fortuitously discovered the field of landscape design ... Elizabeth Westling: A new career late in life
There were also a couple of fortuitous inside edges that just missed his leg stump. Times, Sunday Times
His entry into the takeaway arena was somewhat fortuitous. Times, Sunday Times
So the 'fortuitous outcome of battle', the 'discrimination' against inhabitants of Palestine was never, as has been stated here by Arab apologists, some kind of agressive action by Zionist founders of Israel, but purely the result of hardened Arab attitudes by different Arab factions, who even allied themselves to fascism and Nazi Germany, in their obsessive anti-Semitism and militant rejection of Israel, because it conflicted with their own nationalism and antagonism to Jews. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
A series of fortuitous circumstances advanced her career.
fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune
We next pointed out that the lack of specimens from 1950s provided a fortuitous link with the first published report of pox in California, in which Power and Human documented a severe outbreak at Santa Barbara in 1972.
As it was I was spared splatting straight into the ground by the fortuitous placement of a barbed wire fence.
˜rational mortal animal™ is thought to be the real definition of ˜human being™, regardless of other associated features (even necessary features such as risibility) or fortuitous images (as any mental image of a human will be of someone with determinate features). Peter Abelard
The greatest part of physicians affirm, that this happens casually and fortuitously; for, when the sperm of the man and woman is too much refrigerated, then children carry a dissimilitude to their parents. Essays and Miscellanies
Fortuitous coincidences bring these characters into narrative contiguity, though they come from vastly different backgrounds. The Times Literary Supplement
It would be another man's name, another fortuitous match of an unused life and a sociopath 's inexplicable mission. THE LAST PLACE
He described it as being happenstance of a fortuitous nature.
There was certainly no design behind any of it, but as it happened, it was a pretty fortuitous accident. Times, Sunday Times
If such evidence surfaces, watch out for another fortuitous destruction of those records.
As it turned out, it was rather fortuitous that I had stopped to have a short discussion with Irving.
Six minutes before the interval, it was the same pair who were involved in a somewhat fortuitous opener. Times, Sunday Times
And still remember the moment he met, in fact, was purely fortuitous, a pure accident.
Supposing this primitive stock to have {140} arisen directly from a very lowly organized animal indeed (such as a nematoid worm, or an ascidian, or a jelly-fish), yet it is not easy to believe that less than two thousand million years would be required for the totality of animal development by no other means than minute, fortuitous, occasional, and intermitting variations in all conceivable directions. On the Genesis of Species
It was rather fortuitous then, to have the Prime Minister himself underline the need for a more direct and reliable land route.
This is fortuitous because the acreage of this convention center is unfathomable.
Their captors would have killed the Ameri-cans when they tired of them, Cayton said, leaving their bodies in unmarked jungle graves except for a fortuitous break. Command SgtMaj Rick CAYTON
By what accidental or fortuitous happening the atoms have dropped out of their scientific categories, and the molecules have been advanced to their commanding place in _absolute accidentalness_, is one of those unassignable causes in which they apparently so much delight. Life: Its True Genesis
Were these meetings in bogs pre-arranged or merely fortuitous? Up the Spout
The ball found its way to Aidan Kehoe but the corner forward fumbled it but the ball fell fortuitously to McGill who crashed it to the net.
In the first instance, he was saved by the fortuitous destruction of his papers in an Allied bombing raid.
This would have been impossible but for one fortuitous circumstance. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
So on a meander along the city footpaths, it was fortuitous that we came across this venue, just when a lunch break was called for.
During the Clippers' visit to Cleveland two weeks ago, though, that was all but forgotten as the hatchet was fortuitously buried, the water luckily well under the bridge. Baron Davis reportedly headed to Cleveland in trade for Mo Williams, Jamario Moon
We were a fantastic and fortuitous accident. The Sun
Schlemiel and schlimazel that we are, the power went out, but it fortuitously came back on in just enough time to warm the warm and chill the cold.
His account of the image suggests that these robustly modeled features were fortuitously acquired rather than physiognomically specific to the subject.
I CANNOT think myself engaged from these words to discourse of lots, as to their nature, use, and allowableness; and that not only in matters of moment and business, but also of recreation; which latter is indeed impugned by some, though better defended by others; but I shall fix only upon the design of the words, which seems to be a declaration of a divine perfection by a signal instance; a proof of the exactness and universality of God's providence from its influence upon a thing, of all others, the most casual and fortuitous, such as is the casting of lots. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
A gymnast must be both skillful and careful and never gamble, never rely on providence or luck - in short on anything that is undependable or fortuitous.
A series of fortuitous circumstances advanced her career.
Six minutes before the interval, it was the same pair who were involved in a somewhat fortuitous opener. Times, Sunday Times
An unsighted Chris Tuffy just could not get his body behind the ball and the visitors went 2-1 up rather fortuitously.
A careful induction from all the passages where this number cannot be regarded as fortuitous, but is evidently of Divine ordinance and appointment (I call fortuitous such sevens as occur, Acts xix. 14; xx. 6), will leave no doubt that it claims throughont Scripture to be considered as the covenant number, the sign and signature of God's covenant relation to mankind, and above all to that portion of mankind with which this relation is not potential merely, but actual, namely the Church. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
They might have been, too, but for a rather fortuitous penalty awarded with nine minutes remaining.
For very many in the world attribute everything to themselves and their prudence, and what they cannot so attribute they call fortuitous and accidental, not knowing that human prudence is nothing and that "fortuitous" and "accidental" are idle words. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence
The loft above the work space was a fortuitous accident that happened during construction.
But this level of fame, as GQ senior editor Mickey Rapkin discovers (over lunch at the Olive Garden), comes from an extremely humble and oddly fortuitous beginning – one that involves a karate program, the Blue Power Ranger, and his pilot father. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Taylor Lautner Does ‘GQ’ Magazine . . . Again
An event that is described as fortuitous or accidental in the context of one set of interests may take on a different aspect when it is surveyed from another standpoint, being seen there as intrinsically related to the historian's principal theme or subject: in neither case, though, need the suggestion that it has no causal explanation be present. CAUSATION IN HISTORY
Hence there grew up the belief that events which we describe as fortuitous or random or subject to chance are no different from any other happenings, except that we do not know why they happen. CHANCE
Of course, if it all began, as they say, by coopting certain amino acids to act as catalytic groups, or fortuitously latching on to small peptides to function as cross-linkers, it was perhaps the Most Lucky Event of all that such humble material contained within it the latent potential to turn the blind watchmaker into a rather impressive designer-mimic. An Amazing Design Material
But it all turned out fine in the end, with Stephen arriving home from a party just at the point I'd fortuitously clambered back out of the back yard and headed round to the front again. Archive 2010-06-01
He got his reward when he gave his team the lead, albeit in fortuitous circumstances, from one of their first attacks. The Sun
Among the other fortuitous details of my birth, I forgot to mention my actual birthday.
Fortuitously, she received the support of Elizabeth Arden, the well-known cosmetology expert who by then already had her famous and fabulously successful line of beauty products and spas.
Was it love, she wondered, or a mere fortuitous combination of happy thoughts and sensations? The House of Mirth
‘Dissipation of Energy’ follows in nature from the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
The collapse of its rivals brought fortuitous gains to the company.
But if things do fall apart completely, we appear to be fortuitously well prepared for a descent into cannibalism judging by the plethora of plump posteriors wandering the malls.
So many persons at present think of it as merely accidental and fortuitous, as if there was no mind in it, as if all the excellent things loosely described as errata, all the curiosæ felicitates of the setter-up of texts, were casual blunders. Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
It may have been simply fortuitous that they had encamped near the Korisa military camp.
If not for some fortuitous timing, mineralogy would be without the current knowledge of blatonite.
Once again its ringing sounded through the room, coming, fortuitously, in the middle of a dramatic pause in the oration. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
Those inclined to believe in the ‘guiding hand’ of the Creator would doubtless deduce that he is squarely on the prince's side too, since the lecture fortuitously coincided with two more GM fiascos.
This would have been impossible but for one fortuitous circumstance. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Much of the success of the text is by design, other aspects are by fortuitous accident.
The fortuitous alignment of a quasar and a distant galaxy has enabled astronomers to unravel the origin and evolution of chemical elements
The technique, attributed to Cornelis Drebbel, used a tin mordant to brighten the color produced by cochineal. 11 The discovery, as reported in the eighteenth century, was a fortuitous accident similar to that of Prussian blue; fortunate in that the discovery happened to someone able to recognize and exploit it. reference Drebbel, it was said, accidentally broke a container of tin-infused aqua regia over a container of the cochineal extract used in making thermometers. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
It is a title acquired fortuitously, being given to one who during an attack happened _to lance unknowingly a dead man in the house of the enemy_. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
Although he produced some light comedies in the early 1940s, Carlo Ponti's reputation as a producer fortuitously coincided with the rise of Italian neorealism from 1943 to 1950 .... GreenCine Daily: Carlo Ponti, 1912 - 2007.
On this happy occasion of our graduation from the Landscape Institute, I could talk about how I fortuitously discovered the field of landscape design and its sister field, landscape history. Elizabeth Westling: A new career late in life
It probably arose from the accidental but fortuitous fermentation of grapes from wild vines.
Siegel grew up in Brooklyn listening to a ton of folk and country music and, fortuitously, learning to yodel. Michael Sigman: 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' at 50: A Song for the Ages
Her career was a collection of serendipitous and fortuitous events that entice one to believe she was fated to succeed.
It had been obtained by one of those fortuitous coincidences that sometimes produce great journalism.
He laughed to himself as he walked, thinking how lucky he'd been that his prank had had such fortuitous results.

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