chanciness

But, oh, how well I knew the chanciness of life.

It's this very chanciness that makes me love them so.

With the chanciness of their species the children suddenly became angelic.

But despite the chanciness of the materials, neither artist could be described as spontaneous.

Again, as Darwin saw it, the chanciness of hereditary variation is relative, not absolute.

The playwright works up these differences into a finely tuned irony that says much about the mating game's chanciness.

That is all I can promise now, for you know the chanciness of events as well as I do."

It is, however, also significant that this rare British setback occurred close inshore with all the difficulties and chanciness that implied."

Mr. Bradley's and Richard Schlesinger's interviews with jury members, lawyers and a judge bring out the chanciness of the proceedings.

The cap, then, falls within an overall grand vision of chanciness and risk; Liputin's teeth are by no means the only things that hang by a thread.

Eva's renunciation of appearances, the intricate web of relations between people who affect one another's life drastically, the play of chanciness and necessity constitute the main existentialist motifs of the novel.

The chanciness of a winning industrial strategy is no doubt why the authors strongly emphasize the right Government industrial policy, which, they insist, the United States has embraced in the past, if only through programs financed by the military.

To assuage the chanciness of theater producing, Mr. Scharer has mastered the knack of putting on a show for a day, or a night or, as he puts it, "special entertainment events for corporate America."

It's a sardonic comment on the fantasy of riches, happiness, spiritual sustenance, and so on that besets us all, versus the chanciness of its realization, that has preoccupied Mr. Indiana for most of his career.

"Evita," a rich theater piece that does not lack self-awareness, is a caustic commentary about media manipulation, the chanciness of celebrity, people's need to adulate, to manufacture icons and the power of arrogance and the arrogance of power.

But for some researchers, that doesn't quite explain the ability of a rat to find its way through a maze that it hasn't previously explored or of an elephant to find its way to water across a huge desert, where the chanciness of trial and error would be fatal.

"The most important things of your life," the boy later points out, "can change so suddenly, so unrecoverably, that you can forget even the most important of them and their connections, you are so taken up by the chanciness of all that's happened and by all that could and will happen next.

I think that they are equal in significance and that they tell the same basic story (as illustrations of the extreme chanciness and contingency of life's history: decimate the Burgess differently and we never evolve; send those comets into harmless orbits and dinosaurs still rule the earth, precluding the rise of large mammals, including humans).