| Through standard musical comedy serendipity, George is given an audition opposite Clare! |
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| Success often depends on serendipity and clues turned up by other investigations. |
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| Discovery, for an artist, is rarely the much-advertised miracle of serendipity. |
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| One of the nicest things about traveling is the part that serendipity plays in our adventures. |
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| Like most worthwhile adventures, the origins of this particular grand excursion are rooted in pure serendipity. |
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| I don't worry about surveillance as much as I worry that chance encounters and serendipity may disappear. |
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| My books are shelved according to where I expect them to be, and by serendipity. |
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| The arts develop because of aptitude, talent, genius, hard work and serendipity. |
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| In the strange world of synchronicity and serendipity that we inhabit, these two facts are not unrelated. |
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| Circumstance, I said, is a factor which some might call chance, fate, luck, serendipity, or karma. |
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| A mixture of serendipity, personal experience and recommendation built the list of artists. |
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| In contrast, she plays her life like a game of chance, taking joy from the serendipity that a rolling stone existence brings her. |
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| A salt dome in Texas turned into the Spindletop oil bonanza, a serendipity of far-reaching import. |
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| In the end it was down to an awful lot of luck and an awful lot of serendipity. |
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| For them, serendipity seems a bit too much like gambling, and indeed, such chance gains are even morally suspect. |
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| There must be something seriously wrong with a nation that chooses serendipity as its favourite word. |
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| Perhaps more damaging, mechanizing the drug discovery process may not have left enough room for hunches and serendipity. |
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| Such serendipity is typical of a constantly surprising show whose overlapping paths continually come full circle. |
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| You might say this is serendipity, but you really have to make these things happen. |
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| While there is appeal in the spontaneity and serendipity of these events, they do not amount to community. |
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| In his own words, he scraped a living in Bangkok but then serendipity came again in the form of a meeting with two influential people in Bangkok. |
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| What is lost, some say, is the experience of serendipity and the delight in finding things that you would not naturally seek out. |
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| A few weeks ago, in one of those moments of serendipity, I came across a book waiting to be placed in our law library's rare book collection. |
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| I often think about the fall lines of life, the invisible tightropes that divide moments of calamity and serendipity. |
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| It strips music buying of serendipity and context, making Justin Bieber as important as the Beatles. |
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| Getting the H. J. Heinz Company on board as a research funder and partner for the production of sachets was, he says, pure serendipity. |
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| There is a special joy in the serendipity of discovering small facts in the search for larger ones. |
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| Evolution seems to proceed not by design but by chance and serendipity. |
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| This is the famous Anglo-Saxon serendipity, which consists in finding what one is not looking for. |
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| It's only luck or rather serendipity, which makes them successful. |
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| Not entirely without surprise, serendipity had its way with me and I stumbled on one of my much-loved poems, by Henry Reed, that fitted the bill perfectly. |
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| We're meant to be ensorcelled by the show's glittering web of serendipity, but we're just impatient: C'mon, people, get up to speed! |
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| There is huge serendipity in life and we cannot plan for it of course. |
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| It is really matter of serendipity that Michael Vick has changed, and the over-under on bamboozlement is still 50 percent. |
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| It came across like it had all been preplanned, of course, which is the serendipity of leadership sometimes. |
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| As you open your mind, both synchronicity and serendipity occur. |
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| The SFO is deliberately against technical virtuosity in favour of serendipity, against phallocentric guitar-heroism in favour of a detached, unphysical approach to playing. |
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| More often than not, turncoat spies are successfully recruited as one-offs, through serendipity and dumb luck. |
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| By complete serendipity, I spotted a job advertisement for a matchmaker – I had no idea matchmaking was a real job. |
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| It's interesting that human history sometimes has a synchronicity and a serendipity to the turn of events. |
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| The cast are here to bring a bit of theatre to the outback and it is absolute serendipity that we run into them at the end of an 11-hour drive. |
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| With yet another stroke of serendipity, they are BOTH newly single! |
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| It was only through sheer serendipity that he found what he was looking for bobbing about on the Clyde just a few miles from his home in Woodlands. |
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| Thus far, however, this has happened as a result of serendipity, which is not sufficient. |
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| I was thinking of new ways to engage with my audience and with a bit of serendipity and inspiration the cake was born. |
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| Give serendipity a chance, see things through a different lens and let yourself be surprised by what happens around you! |
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| Instead, market economies are compatible with a diverse range of institutional arrangements, products of path dependence, serendipity, luck and the force of unintended consequences of the actions of many agents. |
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| There is no serendipity without a flash of insight from left field, an oblique eureka effect. |
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| Whenever I go back — I've returned a dozen times over the past two decades — I think of that freakish bird and wait for the inevitable Floridian serendipity to splash down once again. |
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| But serendipity also put in an appearance. |
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| But if subsequent work confirms his finding, what started as an unfortunate piece of serendipity may lead to a valuable new technique for repairing injured brains. |
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| It was a pleasant job that required skill, luck and serendipity. |
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| Spontaneity, serendipity, chance, and intuition are essential to the worlds of play, make-believe, imagination, fiction, the surreal or virtual reality in which artists undertake their inquiry. |
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| A good example of serendipity is the discovery of penicillin. |
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| While all five inventors have a science or engineering background, they acknowledge that the process of invention is just as much an art, with a little serendipity thrown in. |
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| People are still better than robots at responding to serendipity. |
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| These initiatives may form the first stages in an overall government strategy or be piecemeal developments dictated by budgetary limitations, political interest and serendipity. |
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| It was the serendipity of a beautifully cast play, with great design and direction, It will be hard to be in anything better. |
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| But you also understand what a crapshoot it is and how serendipity plays a huge part. |
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| Thus, unexpected fallout from automated technology may have identified the first poikilocyte by serendipity. |
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