December 19, 2008

Serendipitous & Serendipity

serendipitous



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–adjective 
1. come upon or found 
by 
accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific [discov]eries.  

2. of, pertaining to, or suggesting serendipity.
3. good; beneficial; favorable: serendipitous weather for our vacation.  


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serendipity (n.), serendipitous (adj.)   
 
Serendipity means "good luck or good fortune, unearned and unexpected." It’s from Walpole’s The Three Princes of Serendip—the princes had it. 

But these and other self-conscious polysyllables (such as thaumaturgical) should be sparingly employed. As with Turkish delight, a very little is often more than enough. 

thaumaturgical
奇蹟的,奇術的


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Although Spielberg said he wanted to give Tom Hanks the time and space to develop elaborate situations like Tati serendipitously blundered through, he provided Hanks with a plot, dialogue and supporting characters. Tati made "Playtime" without a story, with dialogue (mostly in English) that is inaudible or disposable, and without a hero.


sorcerer
If John’s illness resembles the [curse] put on Sleeping Beauty by an evil [sorcerer], 
incantation
The attractions of impromptu ritual are [a] constant in Me and You, in the incantatory [recitations] Christine records for her videos
repetitious wordiness to conceal a lack of content, obfuscation
Her prose too often resorts to [incantation].  
Crypto
  







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