All 17 Uses of
fortuitous
in
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- So fateful a decision resting on so fortuitous a love, a love that would not even have existed had it not been for the chief surgeon's sciatica seven years earlier.†
Chpt 1
- And that woman, that personification of absolute fortuity, now again lay asleep beside him, breathing deeply.†
Chpt 1fortuity = something (or the quality of) occurring by happy chance
- After Tomas had returned to Prague from Zurich, he began to feel uneasy at the thought that his acquaintance with Tereza was the result of six improbable fortuities.†
Chpt 2fortuities = things occurring by happy chance
- But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?†
Chpt 2
- If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.†
Chpt 2
- She knew then (the birds of fortuity had begun alighting on her shoulders) that this stranger was her fate.†
Chpt 2fortuity = something (or the quality of) occurring by happy chance
- Much more than the card he slipped her at the last minute, it was the call of all those fortuities (the book, Beethoven, the number six, the yellow park bench) which gave her the courage to leave home and change her fate.†
Chpt 2fortuities = things occurring by happy chance
- It may well be those few fortuities (quite modest, by the way, even drab, just what one would expect from so lackluster a town) which set her love in motion and provided her with a source of energy she had not yet exhausted at the end of her days.†
Chpt 2
- Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidences.†
Chpt 2
- Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence (Beethoven's music, death under a train) into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life.†
Chpt 2
- Impelled by the birds of fortuity fluttering down on her shoulders, she took a week's leave and, without a word to her mother, boarded the train to Prague.†
Chpt 2fortuity = something (or the quality of) occurring by happy chance
- The birds of fortuity had alighted once more on her shoulders.†
Chpt 2
- Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry.†
Chpt 3fortuitously = with happy chance
- Apparently these encounters had not been fortuitous.†
Chpt 5
- She, born of six fortuities, she, the blossom sprung from the chief surgeon's sciatica, she, the reverse side of all hisEs muss sein!†
Chpt 5fortuities = things occurring by happy chance
- Her presence at his side felt more unbearably fortuitous than ever.†
Chpt 5 *
- of his love to go off with Tereza, the woman born of six laughable fortuities.†
Chpt 5fortuities = things occurring by happy chance
Definition:
occurring by happy chance