propitious

How To Use propitious In A Sentence

• The time was propitious for the banding together of women in self-defence. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
• The United States was founded on the pro-liberty ideals of the eighteenth century; the nineteenth century might not have provided such propitious foundations.
• This journalistic term can be used to describe an innocent delay of a story until a more propitious moment, or a manipulative delay of a story until it can do the most damage.
• Liberal Saudi spokesmen explained that not all were opposed to women's driving, but that the incident came at an unpropitious moment.
• It initially had to be postponed two weeks out of concerns that the country's political chaos were unpropitious to success.
• The time was propitious for the banding together of women in self-defence. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
• Their marriage began unpropitiously when the groom - intending to instruct his bride in her marital duties - took her to watch a display of graphic lovemaking in a brothel.
• Nevertheless, even under these almost blasphemously unpropitious circumstances, the place seems to make a profound impact. The Times Literary Supplement
• The straight horizontal and vertical strokes of the characters had been cut into the shapes of propitious things, such as lucky birds, lotuses and guavas.
• The summer of 1802 was thus a propitious moment to enhance Bonaparte's authority.