Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet HAPPENSTANCE

Definition av HAPPENSTANCE

1. (vardagligt) tillfällighet, slump

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• in ſp and ſt (since 1901 also ſz), unless they arise by happenstance (via a connecting s or composition); that includes flexion suffixes starting with t:
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• Actor Alex Gold portrayed Headon in the 2016 film London Town, which tells the story of a Clash-obsessed teenager who crosses paths with Joe Strummer by happenstance in 1979 and finds his life changing as a result.
• The systemic impediments include educational opportunities as well as various laws and political contrivances and even barriers and hurdles arising from historical happenstance.
• However, by happenstance, the group gains the ire of Miss Grummet, the school dean and a matronly martinet, who believes all stewardesses to be attractive "flying waitresses", not tough, nerdy, chubby, promiscuous, and certainly not stewards like George, Philo or Larry (their homosexual classmate).
• Despite encountering initial skepticism from discerning critic Waldo Twitchell, their fortunes take a fortuitous turn when Curly, through serendipitous happenstance, assumes the role of an accidental magician, captivating the audience and ensuring the triumph of their enterprise.
• The Laymans seem to have gotten into the cemetery business by happenstance when, soon after they arrived, a Baptist pastor asked to bury his infant son, Carlton Cressey (or Cressy), on their land.
• " Namrata Joshi from The Hindu remarked that the film's "proceedings flummox, the happenstance baffles and each of the leading characters' motivations remain utterly unconvincing.
• Various events occur which put their relationship to the test, including one time being too tired to make love, a misunderstanding resulting from Cherie's pet dog copulating with a stranger's dog, the sudden appearance of Jimmy's attractive, and younger childhood friend Flora, a happenstance discussion about marrying to have kids, and Flora wanting Jimmy's sperm for artificial insemination.
• Dominique Nahas notes the work's careful mix of deliberateness and happenstance, understated optical effects and shifting figure-ground relationships, which creates a "life force" fluctuating between tenderness and vehemence, theatricality and non-narrative form.
• The rapport between Taylor and Lyons is particularly stunning, as they both contort, entwine and pull apart, their convergence often sounding like radical examples of happenstance.
• Communities here seemed to be absorbing Indian culture, not by happenstance, but through slowly diffusion via neighboring Funan and maritime networks utilized by Chamic seafarers.

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