| 单词 | coincidence |
| 例句 | “So it’s cool that you live out here. Seems like an amazing coincidence.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z That it was more than just coincidence I’d been delivered into the Pastor’s hands like some package of damaged goods. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “He’s so funny. He’s, like, so adamant that he doesn’t mind doing long distance with Bram, and it’s just a coincidence that he chose New York.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z It may not be a coincidence that Greene, like many scientists since Galileo, is a lucid expositor of difficult ideas, because the ideal of classic prose is congenial to the worldview of the scientist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Besides, who would’ve paid any attention to two kids talking about what sounds like a few coincidences?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z A very simple numerical principle that’s sometimes of use in accounting for the certainty of a particular kind of coincidence is illustrated by the mailman who has twenty-one letters to distribute among twenty mailboxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Both presidents were great patriots and signers of the Declaration of Independence, and it is a majestic coincidence that they would both die on the day all Americans celebrate as the birth of this country. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Ivan agreed that the shield was too much of a coincidence. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z This was one of the weirdest coincidences ever. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Of course it could have been coincidence, but when you and Joana were named in the article, I knew. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It can’t be a coincidence that she has continued to appear in my life, coming to me that much more frequently since my mother left, as if laughing at me—taunting me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z By coincidence the Coast Guard sent Dad his captain’s license on the same day that the fire investigators released their findings about the Coral Queen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z But then, call it coincidence, call it plot, the man's gun went off again in the distance, and I realized he was in the orange grove hunting. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Some Birthday vs. a Particular Birthday Sigmund Freud once remarked that there was no such thing as a coincidence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the walk to school they talked about coincidence, agreeing that it didn’t always seem to be accidental, and Petra shared some of Charles Fort’s ideas about looking carefully at things. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The evidence is circumstantial, but it’s hard to imagine that Sapiens, just by coincidence, arrived in Australia at the precise point that all these animals were dropping dead of the chills. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The sinister coincidence shook him and filled him with doubt and dread. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Phoebe looked extensively relieved, but I knew it was not a coincidence that her father was there. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “No. I don’t. She seemed totally surprised. My parents would tell me if they had any idea what was going on. She said it’s probably just a coincidence.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And when I say goodbye to the dragonflies—I don’t know, maybe it’s just a coincidence—but when I say goodbye, at that very second, they burst up into the air. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z She stared at it a long time before whispering, “It could just be a coincidence.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I told her that I thought the coincidence of our teams’ names was bizarre. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “But I thought it was quite a coincidence. Few people have access down here, and everyone else was more or less accounted for last night.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “If I could, I’d write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence. It’s with those words that the universal language is written.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It might be a trick, but it was no coincidence. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s certainly a strange coincidence,” Mr. Eberhardt was saying, “two different kids targeting the same location. Is it possible the Matherson boy hooked up with your friend, Beatrice’s stepbrother—” “No way,” Roy interjected firmly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z During the peak of ancient astronomy, Greek astronomical tables regularly employed zero; its symbol was the lowercase omicron, o, which looks very much like our modern-day zero, though it’s probably a coincidence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I mean, what are the chances their last name is just a coincidence?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Could this be a coincidence, or was it a clever warning? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if that was a coincidence or not, but it’s funny because colored people in South Africa are known for loving fancy cars. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z That there was nothing going on here, that this was all a coincidence. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘You could say, suspicious. Or maybe just coincidence.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It couldn’t have been a coincidence, which meant that the photos my grandfather had shown me—that he’d sworn were of children he’d known in this house—had really come from this house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z If Pet had come to hunt someone, it couldn’t be a coincidence that it had come through her and her mother. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z A good zoo is a place of carefully worked-out coincidence: exactly where an animal says to us, “Stay out!” with its urine or other secretion, we say to it, “Stay in!” with our barriers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z By happy coincidence, some of their fellow inmates were Mexican gang members with close ties to Colombian drug dealers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She couldn’t believe that a shield with a red dragon on it was a coincidence, seeing as the dragon in Anya’s barn had been red. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Then it was just a coincidence you were there when it hap- pened?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know, I know. There are no coincidences.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It was actually the coincidence of the dot-com boom and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that launched the fiber-optic bubble. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Life is just a series of dumb decisions and indecisions and coincidences that we choose to ascribe meaning to. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “As to that, the coincidence is not, perhaps, so great as it seems,” said the doctor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The same could be said about a wide variety of other unlikely events and coincidences. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to say a coincidence, but he couldn’t make himself believe that. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Perhaps after all she was not really following him about; perhaps it was coincidence that she had sat so close to him two days running. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The candle had burst at the same moment she’d exhaled, but...surely that was a coincidence, it had to be. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But as the two thousand million inhabitants of the planet had only ten thousand names between them, the coincidence was not particularly surprising. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Is it just a coincidence that I am eating a ten-year-old’s snack and simultaneously feeling like a ten-year-old because I’m talking to my mother? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z By coincidence—or maybe it was an omen, the boy thought—he came to the bar he had entered on his first day there. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or it could have just been a coincidence,” I say. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He remembers all the little coincidences it took to get them to meet and fall in love. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She drew her fingers along the carved dragon, unable to believe the presence of a dragon on the stone was a coincidence. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z My teacher’s name was Ms. Port, which I thought was a funny coincidence since her classroom was in a portable trailer. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z My CIA training overrode my wishful thinking," Howard said, "and I also recalled one of James Bond's maxims: 'Once is coincidence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They’re also more likely to remember true “predictions,” overvalue coincidences, and ignore everything else. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know if she was sick, if it was just a coincidence that she happened to be out of school right after I discovered that my notebook was missing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It may have been just a coincidence that a family named Cowgill ran the dairy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z And there’s a part of me that’s worried, too, because I’m not sure it’s just a coincidence, the power coming on the very day I return to the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It didn't seem willful at first—it was just a series of odd coincidences. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z She had always believed that coincidences didn’t exist, that everything that happened, happened for a reason. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Another coincidence,” she said, her voice barely audible. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Even people who have less restrictive filters and a good feel for numbers will note an increasingly large number of coincidences, due in large measure to the number and complexity of man-made conventions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Mom is talking with Mr. Creed, and the school nurse happens to pass by—"Mrs. Phillips, isn't it? And how's that Bobby? He has the flu, right?"—it doesn't feel like a coincidence. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It feels like some kind of cosmic coincidence. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a coincidence that he left only a few weeks after my first abduction. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A series of small coincidences that we say means everything because we want to believe that our tiny lives matter on a galactic scale. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like too much to be a mere coincidence. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And if not, then could Harry’s death have been more than just an awful coincidence, the result of a foolish choice to pickpocket the wrong man? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Was it just a coincidence that both victims had been wealthy Osage Indians, in their thirties? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There was a sinister and unlikely coincidence exposed that was too diabolical in implication to be anything less than the most hideous of omens. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She also mentioned that she played softball for a team called the Pride, which seemed like a meaningful coincidence because my Little League team’s name was also the Pride! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He waited and on the evening of September 15 a circumstance of fate, a coincidence, brought him through the fog at Ship Channel Bank to where Carl was stranded at sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “It is a strange coincidence, is it not, that two such gifted children should be admitted to the Institute at the very same time, and that they should be such close friends?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Oh my god! Wow! What a coincidence! What are you doing in D.C.? You go to Howard?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z One collection of coincidences too unlikely to be dismissed in this way is provided by the case of the proverbial monkey accidentally typing out Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure it’s not a coincidence that she looks straight at me when she says this. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The more they talked, the more she told herself that this was no coincidence; there was a significance to her meeting this man on the day that she returned her voice to herself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “That is just what I am asking myself. Have we here a coincidence or what? Are there any other inconsistencies, such as would point to two people being concerned?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The debate centers on whether the number of coincidences is more than would be expected by chance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was just a weird coincidence—it had to be—but this really, really, sucked. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But when we moved away a month later, I knew it wasn’t coincidence. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z No concrete evidence exists that the first event caused the second, but the coincidence in timing is hard to dismiss. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z How could this staircase experience be anything but a huge, strange coincidence? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Especially for the innumerate, a few vivid predictions or coincidences often carry more weight than much more conclusive but less striking statistical evidence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What I saw in the paper, was it just a coincidence? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He told the boy it was no coincidence that he had met him with Urim and Thummim in his hand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I recognized his accent, a coincidence and a direct hit. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “It could not be a coincidence. We are here, Your Majesty. Why have you asked us to come?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Verna had met Suzanne a couple of times while we were at Harvard and by sheer coincidence was now living in Silver Spring, in a building just across the parking lot from Suzanne’s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Kira told me how much I looked like my mother and how when she first saw me she thought maybe it was possible, but it was too much of a coincidence. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “As for being admitted at the same time,” he said, “that is a coincidence. But it’s no surprise that two good students should become good friends, especially if they’re roommates.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The fact that iron and intensive farming reached Japan simultaneously is unlikely to be a coincidence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "The judge says she's a pawn and Otis Amber says he's the king, Crow's the queen— Oh well, it's probably just a coincidence." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, this was not coincidence, not at all. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That it had risen right beneath our feet was no coincidence. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z By a strange coincidence—or maybe not—he looks eerily like he does on YouTube, since his voluminous scarf and ski hat cover his face everywhere except the letterbox view from eyes to lower lip. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z And then she was just there, right in front of him, like some sort of huge cosmic coincidence personified. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z And in the end, Harold’s imperfect audio system happened to be the last note in the melody of coincidences that changed my life. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z By an unfortunate coincidence, both of them were named Lisa, which made for a lot of confusion around the house. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I grin at her, dying to know how her scientific brain is going to deal with this epic level of coincidence. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Primitive man, in noticing the relatively few natural coincidences in his environment, slowly developed the raw observational data out of which science evolved. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The stars tell us everything. It’s fate, Gen. Fate in the stars. There are no coincidences.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Well, she ended up getting brain cancer—the exact kind she was doing the study on. The probability of that was like one in a million or something. How’s that for a coincidence?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z By an unfortunate coincidence, the waiter sat us at the table by the window where Francis and I had sat with Julian less than twenty-four hours before. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “What a charming coincidence I” Nately was too astounded even to hear him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The surprising likelihood of coincidence is illustrated by the following well-known result in probability. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no such thing as coincidence,” said the Englishman, picking up the conversation where it had been interrupted in the warehouse. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus it was no coincidence that Sovoy and I bumped into each other while we were gathering our materials. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “There are no coincidences,” Gen and Kaori say, at the same time. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The front wall was blown out, but by some freaky coincidence, her carved wooden dresser full of her antique china collection was left perfectly intact. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Surely it was more than happy coincidence that the price of admission—“fifty cents, straight up,” remembers one former bug boy—was precisely equal to the pay for galloping a horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By coincidence or out of some malignant expression of humor, the house was located right behind the city morgue, a few blocks north of City Hall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The name was just a weird coincidence, but it left me with an uncanny feeling I couldn’t shake. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z And I can feel at least that I may have helped, because I cannot believe it could be a coincidence that Megan disappeared the day after I saw her with that man. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “My dear Handel,” Herbert would say to me, in all sincerity, “if you will believe me, those very words were on my lips, by a strange coincidence.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that the Governor was coming to Namwon for a visit couldn't be just a coincidence. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “In a minute. These word stones aren’t here by coincidence. They could be another clue.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The coincidence of a marriage and then a divorce both occurring in cities named Moscow was ironic enough to make headlines in local newspapers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I had to fend off my share of goals, which I mostly did, through some combination of luck, coincidence, and latent memories of my pre-medication training. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z All the girls but Rachel generally ran ragged, so this must have been—for our family—a Sunday, a coincidence of our big day and the villagers’. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess that’s what Mom and Dad would call coincidence, but I kind of think it was fate. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Another problem in probability illustrates how common coincidences may be in another context. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As in the chapters on coincidence and pseudoscience, we see that the desire to filter and emphasize information is at odds with the desire to obtain a random sample. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That encyclopedic coincidence was the beginning of a great friendship. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “It may have been a coincidence, but Herod Sayle was there at the same time. The two of them may have met. And there is something else.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z But there is an equally noteworthy and genuine coincidence that results from taking Newton’s birthday as 4 January 1643, in line with our modern calendar. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But no one had made a move for them, so Wes had chalked it up as simple coincidence. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z My head is getting heavy, “Not such a coincidence,” she says, and now she picks up the binder of old show pictures. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The coincidence struck me as too awful and inexplicable to be communicated or discussed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z If one filters out banal and impersonal events, most of what’s left are astounding aberrations and coincidences, and one’s mind begins to resemble the headlines of supermarket tabloids. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It could not be a coincidence, Mrs. Richardson decided. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I was taken aback, and did my best not to show my surprise — or my delight — at this striking coincidence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She tells herself the coincidence of finding his resume, of stumbling upon him in this way, is too great, that anyone in her position would pick up the phone and call. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The sixth-grade class tried to add to Charles Fort’s accounts and studied the idea of coincidence. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the girl with the most reason to be anti-swastika is staring at someone who’s a prime suspect for being Swastika Guy. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Already we are heavily overburdened by coincidence. Two people decide to stab M. Ratchett last night. It is too much of a good thing that each of them should select an identical weapon.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z This did not satisfy Izzy, who felt this was an improbable coincidence. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It is no coincidence that the figure of the Fallen Woman stalks through so many operas, novels and paintings of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “What a coincidence! I’m going to Detroit, too.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s too much of a coincidence to find you out here like this, so I guess I figure it’s as good a time as ever to tell you. To tell you I’m sorry...” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z They had been tracking down the source of the American counterfeit money that showed up in Morocco, and by coincidence arrived at the Chelsea just seconds after the FBI. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But he was grasping at straws—it was merely coincidence. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that he chose this time to unleash a virus. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It is no coincidence that zero and infinity are linked in the vanishing point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z By happy coincidence, a cute sophomore named Lara ended up sitting on my lap. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Researchers had previously noted the temporal coincidence between the paleo-Indians’ arrival and the mass extinction, but they didn’t believe that small bands of hunters could wreak such ecological havoc. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “What are you saying? It’s just a coincidence that only Catholics go there?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not sure that what I am about to describe really rates as a startling coincidence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t suppose it’s a coincidence that they separated us?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It was no coincidence, in other words, that J. T. was the leader of this crack gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In fact, all of Washington’s conservative message was immensely popular with whites, and not by coincidence, for his every public utterance was carefully crafted to appeal to two audiences. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Is it just a coincidence that Father and Mother never scold Margot and always blame me for everything? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Hollister said it was unusual to see a book with only one of Poe’s stories. Maybe there’s another collection by that name. Maybe this is a coincidence,” he said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Occasionally someone remarks on what a lucky coincidence it is that the Earth is perfectly suitable for life—moderate temperatures, liquid water, oxygen atmosphere, and so on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is probably not a coincidence that elite colleges have not yet turned this sentiment into action. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z So much so that I started wondering if maybe I was wrong, if maybe it wasn't mere coincidence that kept bringing us together. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Nothing is talked about here to-day except the strange coincidence; the officials of the Board of Trade have been most exacting in seeing that every compliance has been made with existing regulations. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He got excellent exam results and—here’s an amazing coincidence—at the age of fifteen he actually found himself sitting next to a boy who would grow up to become prime minister of Great Britain. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Merely a fortunate coincidence. Chandresh insisted on putting the entire staff in green. And I did not anticipate the ingenuity of your attire.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was too much of a coincidence to be a mere accident. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Of course it might just be a coincidence, but it was still somewhere to start. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He said he’d gone running and was totally fine, and it was a coincidence we ran into each other on Day Street. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “What a coincidence! It’s also where I'm strongest. This tank is specially designed to contain demigods. Now, have fun, you two. I’ll see you at feeding time!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Maybe it was a coincidence, but she feared not. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Finally she said, “I am sorry to hear about your companions. And you are correct. My invitation to your king was not a coincidence. But the answer to your question is somewhat...involved.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But if none of this was coincidence, what was it? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It is a little too much of a coincidence, that!” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not coincidence that such a momentous decision centered on the schoolhouse. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s just a coincidence, Jules. You know, a once-in-a-trillion kind of thing, like that old saying about the chimp and the typewriter. Give him long enough and he’ll write a novel.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z By fantastic coincidence, a reporter named Eddie Farrell happened to have just taken a seat by the phone while he waited to speak with the stewards. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That all the people and places, all the coincidences were pushing us to be together forever. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The experts don’t believe in coincidence as much as I do, and I don’t want them to throw doubt on something that I’ve felt always, and actually known for about twenty years.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon noticing this curious coincidence, the gentlemen then gained an ambition to visit the three villages in question - in honour, as it were, of the music hall artistes. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Everything from the Red Crescent is red, so it might be a coincidence.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t ask you to do this, but I’m sure it’s important. It can't be a coincidence we met. If this works, maybe we can finally understand how we're connected.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Completely by coincidence, as we moved back and forth between these churches, I noticed that each one had its own distinct racial makeup: Jubilant church was mixed church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z This is not much of a coincidence, since most of the royal houses of Europe at the time were interconnected by a web of political marriages. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Because of the evidence of one Caractacus Burke,” said Dumbledore, “who, by an odd coincidence, helped found the very shop whence came the necklace we have just been discussing.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The other coincidence between archaeological and linguistic evidence concerns the cultural baggage that ancient Austronesians used. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I tell him compared to that, falling in love just seems like small coincidences. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Maddie certainly hadn’t expected me and was too sharp to take it as a coincidence. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “The mass exodus of the children of Abnegation leaders cannot be ignored or attributed to coincidence,” he reads. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z So she knows: love is just chemicals and coincidence. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Until we discovered an odd coincidence,” Az said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He seemed thrilled, though it wasn’t that big of a coincidence in a school this small. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure that’s the ship you want. My dad was just talking about a ship. It’s a big coincidence to have your ship and my dad show up at the same time.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z By coincidence, Pauling and Corey had also suggested a triple helix, with the bases A, C, G, and T pointed outside. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But maybe this was just another coincidence, pure and simple—there had been so many lately. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z No one else in the room had said anything, and it could not have been any sort of coincidence that less than twenty-four hours later Deirdre was without a job. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Plus, the Frog connection had been such a weird coincidence. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z So his saying that Finnegan would call me crazy was pure coincidence. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He peeked out through the letter box and, oh happy coincidence, there was a pair of goggled eyes peeking right back at him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I knew the timing couldn’t be a coincidence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Petra was wondering what had made Ms. Hussey buy that art book weeks ago, and whether it was just a coincidence. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z This is no coincidence, but rather a sign of the way a new generation of dissectors were eagerly setting about their work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The discovery of the age or something? 11TH JUROR: It would still be an incredible coincidence for another person to have stabbed the father with the same kind of knife. 3RD JUROR: That’s right! Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z That coincidence seemed to me to be a sign that the way of code talking was something I was meant to do and that I would do well at it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A coincidence gave him a new way to thwart his pursuers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Many popular accounts note the coincidence that ‘the’ Isaac Newton was born in the same year, 1642, that Galileo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z "It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z By coincidence, it turned out Barack and I had met Sam years earlier through a different set of friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He said it was an incredible coincidence that he happened Jp be walking by. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His brain delighted at the impossibility of this, at the sheer coincidence that that tiny, serious girl in the blue lehenga now sat opposite him, looking at his sketch pad. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I had so far been able to avoid Ucho and was beginning to wonder if his presence was simply an odd coincidence, if perhaps he had his own reason for being there. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She had stopped talking at the same time; a miraculous coincidence. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hollister said it was unusual to see a book with only one of Poe’s stories. Maybe there’s another collection by that name. Maybe this is a coincidence,” he said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But the coincidence rests on a cheat—using dates from two different calendar systems. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z This was a matter of coincidence rather than design; the senior ANC leadership on the island, the only four to have served on the National Executive Committee, happened to be Xhosa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s not a coincidence that I do what I do for a living,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But, as the following derivation shows, such experiences are more rationally accounted for by coincidence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z How he looked, nothing more than a coincidence. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It is no great wonder if, in the long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This coincidence makes 1543 a convenient marker for the start of the scientific revolution that would transform first Europe and then the world. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Ian Rider. The security man I mentioned. You look a lot like him. Quite a coincidence, don’t you think?” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It might have been nothing more than a coincidence, but nevertheless, I felt an exultant smile overflow my face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And are you saying it was just a coincidence that you were coming out of the store at that time? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z By sheer coincidence, the story eventually reached a man named Goi. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Schott’s book that inspired Robert Boyle to construct his own air pump in England, and it is perhaps not a coincidence that vacuum experiments were recommenced in Florence in 1657. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “My cousin makes a valid point, TimeStar. There’s a ton of weirdness in Logan County, but few coincidences.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Then, when he reaches his destination, it may seem to him the most extraordinary of coincidences, the greatest piece of luck: “Bless my soul, what have we here!” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z These are common names in Tamil Nadu, so the coincidence is not so remarkable. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At last—and this was the part that Mia felt could not be a coincidence—she had, in desperation, gone to a fire station and left her baby on the doorstep. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The discovery of numerous skeletons of mammoths with Clovis spear-points between their ribs suggests that this agreement of dates is not a coincidence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But Alice followed me casually, as if by some coincidence she had grown tired of the front room at the same time. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He had just figured it was a coincidence she had come by when she did. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “This is such a coincidence, because I am completely addicted to the home and design channels and I’ve heard about these itty-bitty homes. Although where do you go to the bathroom?” she says, cackling. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t think the Authority leaves anything to coincidence.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z What had they discovered that could not be interpreted as plausible, though exceptional, coincidence? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking back to the truck, neither one of us commented about what most non-Afghans would have seen as an improbable coincidence, that a beggar on the street would happen to know my mother. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When I wrote my first autobiographical essay, it was no coincidence that, from the first page, I expected to publish what I wrote. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s fate! It’s like you were meant to be friends! There are no coincidences, Virgil Salinas.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He was leaving, so I walked faster, you know, to catch up, and then I said, “Oh, hi, Colin,” like it’s just coincidence or something that we’re meeting there. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z But it seemed that to Dumbledore, the fact that their families lay side by side in the same graveyard had been an unimportant coincidence, irrelevant, perhaps, to the job he wanted Harry to do. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It seemed an extraordinary coincidence now, but somehow hadn’t then. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no desire to share the fate of Galileo, with whom I feel a strong sense of identity, partly because of the coincidence of having been born exactly 300 years after his death! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He raises his eyebrows and shrugs like he can’t explain the coincidence that is my math grade. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In this time, she’ll be able to see if it’s been coincidence or a doomed fate pushing her back and forth all day, like wave after wave. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I am pondering these strange coincidences: that Marguerite’s abuser and the invader of Denmark are the same Fortinbras of Norway, and that she and I should discover each other. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The chaplain lit up with excitement at this new coincidence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The thing was sleek and simple in design and far too specific to occur by coincidence in two people’s dreams, no matter that they lay side by side, touching. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “So, what, it’s just a coincidence that you haven’t texted me once outside the group chain since prom night? Do you even realize that?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z And a letter from Grammy, right on time, but of course that was just a coincidence. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The coincidence of that connection made me laugh, and I think it was the first good laugh I had behind bars. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “I mean, what are the chances their last name is just a coincidence?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z My interest in Julian Morrow and his Greek pupils, though still keen, was starting to wane when a curious coincidence happened. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Belief in the necessary or even probable significance of coincidences is a psychological remnant of our simpler past. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One minute they were talking about the crazy coincidence of having met about eight years ago at some random wedding. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Whether we call them coincidences, synchronicities, or ironies, however, these occurrences are much more common than most people realize. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If it had not been for Cathy’s murder, fire and robbery might have been a coincidence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Just a coincidence. They didn’t know I was poison yet.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “I was just wondering which would be the winner in a contest such as this—an Indian fighter’s intuition or that wily old boy, coincidence,” Roger wrote later. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, maybe this is all one giant coincidence. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Izzy, this photo probably isn’t even of Pearl’s mother. It could be anyone. Someone who looks like her. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She reminded Calder and Petra that Charles Fort didn’t believe in coincidence. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Miracles and answers to prayer thus become entirely subjective experiences; objectively, there is nothing there, apart from a coincidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But this is unlikely to be a mere coincidence; more likely, the shock wave produced by the supernova compressed interstellar gas and dust and triggered the condensation of the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not coincidence that the leadership of the southern civil rights movement was drawn mainly from a well-educated black middle class. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was a coincidence that it was on Mother's Day. 'Mad Men's' Matthew Weiner greets the end with exhilaration, woe 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z This may be a coincidence, but you never know. The Out of Towner: A Borough?s Pizza-and-Movie Tour 2012-03-08T23:30:07Z By coincidence, the same day we discuss Harper’s new movie, it is announced that the fourth season of The Good Place, which he is now shooting, will be the last. William Jackson Harper on the end of the Good Place 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s no coincidence that Sesame Street’s only character to be met with “a healthy fear and distrust” is also the show’s only puppet with a foreign accent. Sesame Street's Count von Count and the lack of foreign voices on children's TV 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Does that sound like a bunch of coincidences to you, Mr. Garrison? Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z The quality of Pitt's movies in recent years may not be a coincidence. Producing more, Brad Pitt is 'Killing Them Softly' 2012-05-24T10:54:09Z But it’s not a coincidence that books for young readers have become more diverse in the past several years. Best children’s books of 2020 reveal a growing diversity 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The texters might explain gently to Al, as to a grandparent from the old country, that “I could care less” is an example of irony; and Al would snap back, “Irony is not coincidence.” Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Either way, that two of this year’s most talked-about films, “The King’s Speech” and “The Social Network,” deal with turning points in mass communication is either a happy coincidence or a very timely sign. The Carpetbagger: Serious? Snarky? Oscar Courts a Social Medium 2011-02-25T00:00:04Z It was no coincidence that McCarthy's first targets were members of the entertainment industry. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z After all, The Empire Strikes Back is widely regarded as the best Star Wars film, and the fact that it ended in the most downbeat fashion imaginable can't be a coincidence. Lost an ending Return of the Jedi did: send in the dancing Ewoks 2010-08-13T11:38:00Z I think most likely it is a coincidence. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z According to Gatiss, the piece is "full of little coincidences like that". Doctor Who at Comic-Con: 9 things we learned 2013-07-22T13:50:03Z It was an odd coincidence, I thought, not quite enough to warrant the duration of her gaze, but at the same time, I didn’t want anyone actually thinking I was that person. Fiction: You Live Here Now 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z It means more chances for odd coincidence and quiet accumulation of wealth. What if I flunk the gaokao? 2013-03-08T01:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that they also happen to be the platforms for which the first virtual fashion was invented. What to Wear in the Metaverse 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “It’s not a coincidence that the number of hate crimes in this country are rising over the last three years for the first time in a long time.” James Murdoch, Rebellious Scion 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Occasionally, for reasons of fate or coincidence, sounds from the past converge in the present at key moments. Sound of civil rights rings out in resurrected Staple Singers records 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Mills named the last movement of their concerto together “You Can Go Home Again,” a nod to the musicians of Georgia who inspired him decades ago. Mike Mills’ classical rock: Life after R.E.M. includes a new violin concerto bringing orchestra crowds to their feet 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z When asked if the parade of animated movies and musicals is a coincidence, she shakes her head no. How Emily Blunt’s Mary Poppins Will Be Different 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The biggest adventures sometimes begin with the smallest of coincidences. This week's new clubs 2011-03-26T00:07:02Z “The timing was purely coincidence,” Mr. Fares said in a phone interview from Cairo. For Shut-In Pilgrims, the World’s Holiest Sites Are a Click Away 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Hannah says “This place is unbelievable!” as soon as she walks in. Girls Watch: Last Sexit to Brooklyn 2013-02-11T13:00:26Z Ms. Neugebauer’s excitable decisiveness seems to slightly amuse the others — it may not be a coincidence that she is the only native New Yorker in the group. For the Mad Ones, Bad Haircuts Make Good Theater 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z I still emphasize to my teenagers that its placement is a complete coincidence. Motherlode Blog: Tough Choices This Hanukkah (Holiday) Season 2011-12-26T21:18:24Z “Perhaps it’s not a coincidence,” she acknowledges, “But I don’t like to mix it. I want things to be more universal than personal.” Jacqueline de Jong Paints It All 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z It is one of the greatest coincidences of manners that the behavior of their enforcers is sometimes worse than that of the people they seek to change. Circa Now: When the Manners Police Knock - Circa Now 2012-12-20T22:54:38Z The vintage of all three pictures is no coincidence. BUYING BASQUIAT 2012-10-19T20:05:13Z The Soronprfbs play Jon's town, and wacky coincidences lead to a gig substituting for the group's indisposed keyboardist and a desultory local engagement, which is where Jon gets his first puzzled glimpse of Frank. 'Frank' an offbeat dive through the looking glass of creativity 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Laurens shows that coincidence may be the only reliable fact of life, a refrain familiar to anyone who has read Modiano. Camille Laurens’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” Is a Fascinating Hybrid, and Obsessed with Obsession 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But it’s hard to appreciate the magic of coincidence when Aciman has lined up all these details himself. “Find Me” Is a Shallow Sequel to “Call Me By Your Name” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z For Blasim, history is a matter of malignant coincidence and unthought-of consequence, a beast with its own momentum. The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z The Dylan Project is fronted by Steve Gibbons, who like Dylan turned 70 earlier this year -- a happy coincidence given that he claims Dylan's music changed his life. The songs they are a'changing for The Dylan Project 2011-08-16T10:10:41Z That the artists both found their place in the town of Catskill is a coincidence. Staring Into the Soul of the Catskills Through a Pinhole 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z By coincidence, the night David died in 1993, Ms. Burns was dancing on a speaker on Fire Island. Review: ‘David’s Friend’ Dances Through New York’s Disco Nights 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z It's no coincidence that the endlessly endearing Yang-Yang's name is a doubling of the Taiwan auteur's own. Edward Yang's Taipei: All Boxed In 2010-04-14T12:55:00Z Also today, by extraordinary coincidence, which if one were inclined one might term synchronicity, the young and remarkable Josh Sommer, executive director of the Chordoma Foundation, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Here’s a way to do some good 2012-12-18T01:00:00Z This monster storm aimed at America and ready to inflict severe damage during election week is not a coincidence. Pastor: Blame gays for Hurricane Sandy 2012-10-29T18:49:00Z This tradition of the novel is fundamentally secular – coincidence or human machinations, not God, order destinies. Ian McEwan on winning the Jerusalem prize 2011-02-24T11:30:36Z Binoche nevertheless fluidly navigates all the narrative switchbacks and emotional storms, enough that you may not mind the pileup of strained developments and coincidences. ‘Who You Think I Am’ Review: A Woman of Feeling, in Bed and Out 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that the heroine is called Constance; the name echoes the book’s questions about the continuity of mind and where personhood resides. A Human Cloning Error and Existential Questions Fuel This Science Fiction Romp 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Likewise, the plot suffers from an overreliance on coincidence; there are too many chance encounters, flukes and a statistically improbable number of uneducated orphans who become influential officers. Chasing Down a Deadbeat Dad, With a Knife Strapped to Her Leg 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the carbon footprint of the average meat eater is larger than that of a vegetarian by around 1.5 tons of CO2. The 3 most environmentally damaging habits you might be able to change 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z By strange coincidence, while I was reading “Notes on an Execution,” the second novel by Danya Kukafka, I was followed online by advertisements for the television series “Dexter.” ‘Notes on an Execution’ Isn’t Your Typical Serial Killer Novel 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Any connection I shared with the dead little girl was, by all accounts, an unremarkable coincidence. Timothy McVeigh, my dad and me: How the Oklahoma City trial came home with us 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z On the other hand, I see there are coincidences; things happen, and they change your life. "What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?" director counters a curse using cinema as "modern magic" 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Singer noted that some Omicron Delta Kappa members have been having fun with the coincidence. What’s in a Name? If It’s Omicron, a Minor Marketing Challenge. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Adaptations of Victor Hugo’s paean to human suffering are inevitably bushwhacked by the novel’s mounting sentimentalities and coincidences. The Best TV Episodes of 2019 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z I don’t think it’s a coincidence that 2016 was the year I felt the urge to spend more of my time helping others. How to start volunteering: ‘Stop whining, I tell myself. Do something’ 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z It's no coincidence that you are here today. Fela Kuti: Spliffs, riffs . . . and 27 wives 2010-10-26T20:31:00Z Having set up a lofty coming-of-age choice between good and evil, Andrew Lanham’s screenplay — as fuzzy as the legend from which it sprouts — caves beneath unlikely coincidences and well-worn stereotypes. ‘The Kid’ Review: A Wild West Showdown Spurs a Coming-of-Age Dilemma 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z By happy coincidence, Americans, too, celebrate the fall harvest. The American Thanksgiving 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Fripp wrote on his blog in an attempt to explain the coincidence. Robert Fripp: 'I didn't turn down chance to play on David Bowie album' 2013-01-18T13:40:21Z “I’m really honored to be part of it, but I know it’s just a statistical coincidence.” Oscars 2014: Inside the Rhyming “Let It Go” Acceptance Speech 2014-03-03T20:30:03Z It seems no coincidence, in a book so poignant yet improbably funny, that Mr. Evison has chosen this particular illness. Books of The Times: ‘The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving’ by Jonathan Evison 2012-08-27T21:49:53Z “It’s probably a coincidence,” Elizabeth says to Philip. Television Review: ‘The Americans,’ FX Series About Russian Spies 2013-01-29T18:14:28Z “All those nominations for Polish productions were not a coincidence. Polish cinema is doing well.” As ‘Ida’ Wins an Oscar, Poland Ends a Losing Streak 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Speaking of coincidences: Bill Clinton happens to find himself in the same airport as U.S. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Trump and the ‘hideous monstrosity’ that was 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z It's not a coincidence that the verb sitting at the heart of the noun of the main government is 'conserve.' Does this government fear the arts and artists? 2011-01-31T18:01:00Z “I’m an associate of Mr. Stussy’s is all you need to know,” Varga sneers, before offering the thin historical coincidence of there being 24 Hitlers in the phone books. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 6: Ray the Loser 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Can it be a coincidence that the car is Italian? 'The 14th Factory' art exhibition, despite all the hype, is an $18 ticket to spectacle 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z “There was so much luck and so many odd coincidences that I really began to wonder about things like miracles,” Ephron said. Delia Ephron Writes Her Way Through Cancer to a Happy Ending 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z She called it a “happy coincidence” that the pieces — two armchairs and a pouf — will be presented in an abandoned nunnery, under a portrait of a former pope. A Panorama of Design 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z That coincidence would have been strange enough for Finkel — here was a man whose life was upended because he'd invented an identity, and now his own identity had been appropriated. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z So it was no coincidence that she and Scout found themselves delivering a stack of books to several store regulars last Sunday. Independent bookstores survived the rise of online retail. Coronavirus poses bigger challenges. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z By coincidence, when we step out on to the street, he has just received a parking ticket. Aki Kaurismäki: 'I can watch Marvel movies – if it's Sunday and I'm hungover' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that 15 of the 19 artists convened in “Personal Patterns” are women. In the galleries: Getting ‘Personal’ at King Street 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that all of them were, at one time or another, affiliated with Beyond Baroque. In 'Wide Awake,' Suzanne Lummis gathers the poets of Los Angeles 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z "But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted." Meg Ryan finally makes her rom-com return in “What Happens Later.” Watch the trailer 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z All these — I wouldn't call them coincidences, but more like crossed paths and convergences ... Seattle vocalist-musician Amy Denio juggles multiple musical beats 2010-04-02T21:48:00Z Is it a coincidence, then, that a day later she casually exchanges numbers with a handyman who’s clearly into her? The Mad Men mid-season finale: so what happens next? 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z This is Schultz's first book with a major American publisher, whose attention she caught through a lucky coincidence. Beware the infectious beasts of 'The Blondes' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But the boy's mother, speaking to reporters Wednesday at Lawrence Hall Youth Services, a North Side school for at-risk children her son attends, said any gang imagery is coincidence. Sticker yanked, but not without pain 2012-02-09T04:54:00Z Wayfair, on the other hand, claims that the whole thing was seemingly a coincidence. Wayfair creeps out customer by calling her as she browsed site: 'This was nothing less than horrifying' 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z It’s not coincidence that Woody Guthrie identified with Tom Joad and wrote a ballad in tribute to him and Steinbeck. James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z It's no coincidence that it's taken women to effect any major change within the poisoned citadel that is rock'n'roll in 2012. Have Pussy Riot sparked a new wave of grrl power? 2012-08-21T17:57:13Z Like the 19th-century novels she invokes, her stories revel in coincidences, repetitions, revelations and elaborations of events and themes. Jane Smiley’s elegiac look at an American family in ‘Early Warning’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s a funny moment in a film with few of them, but it’s also Bobby in a nutshell: it’s no coincidence that he’s directing his anger toward a woman who shares his girlfriend’s occupation. Five Easy Pieces at 50: a troubling yet thrilling arrival of a new leading man 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Lindahl attributes his eventual success to meticulous quality but also coincidence. Hipster Culture and Instagram Are Responsible for a Good Thing 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z They could also dance – and it's surely no coincidence that this was an era obsessed with dancing. When flappers ruled the Earth: how dance helped women's liberation 2013-04-29T06:00:22Z By coincidence, two songwriters who have braved those subjects, and who continue to explore a complex spectrum of queer desire, released new albums last Friday. Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z When the phone starts ringing in a novel or short story, the air is charged with magic and coincidence, superstition and death. Nicholas Royle's top 10 writers on the telephone 2010-10-06T09:25:00Z Stein appeared to be yet another doomed patient, but his doctors noted an interesting coincidence: Each time he developed a high fever, his tumors began to shrink. Could Immunotherapy Offer a Cure for Cancer? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Is it any coincidence that National Tortellini Day is celebrated on Feb. 13, the eve of Valentine’s Day? National Tortellini Day: Celebrate with a cheesy chicken bake 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z They marveled at the coincidence of bumping into each other just now and Juliette explained why I’d come to St. Thomas. ‘The Island Always Brings You Back’: Finding a Caribbean Home 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Thus far, the scooters are more visible on the feeds of social media elites than IRL, which is no coincidence. Celebrities on Scooters (Catch Them if You Can) 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Could it be another coincidence that so many young people, who looked an awful lot like the weekend crowd, were enthusiastically in the audience? L.A. Phil lives up to the hype with electrifying guest conductor David Robertson 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z They say it’s no coincidence that journalists from The Post, the Times and CNN were the subject of the Justice Department’s actions. The Barbara Starr question: Why did Trump’s Justice Department want CNN Pentagon reporter’s emails? 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The novel has flaws: the plot is episodic and too reliant on a string of unlikely coincidences; characters are introduced, then forgotten and discarded; the ending is rushed. Halo by Zizou Corder | Book review 2010-03-20T00:08:00Z If it occurs twice, it is a coincidence. When Miuccia Prada Met David O. Russell 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But his new book, “This Bright River,” is more than twice as long as “The Cradle,” not nearly as well edited and so crammed with threads and coincidences that it is not easily summarized. Books of The Times: ‘This Bright River’ by Patrick Somerville 2012-07-01T22:02:29Z It may have happened entirely by coincidence, but disconnection-within-connection seems to be the recurring theme of "Project Four," Seattle Dance Project's strong new lineup of five pieces by female choreographers. Review: Seattle Dance Project's 'Project Four' puts more than 4 on the floor 2011-02-03T20:38:03Z “I was very confused by that,” said Mr. Rosenthal, for whom the coincidence seemed spooky. JAR’s Light in the Darkness 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence he begins with “a lass” and ends with being able to say Claire’s name without breaking down. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 3: Green Ain’t Your Color 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that Lichtenstein's painstaking, hand-made works about reproduction do not themselves reproduce well: when they are reproduced, they lose their individuality, specificity, scope and delicacy. From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z The executive director of the London-based Art Loss Register says the fact that both pieces were recovered in Canada within days of each other is a coincidence. Stolen Henry Moore sculpture found in Toronto 2010-03-25T16:55:00Z That just happened by coincidence, that it was the same stunt woman? It's Friday, So Why Not Talk to Betty White? 2010-08-06T14:21:00Z That’s what most days are all about, too, but Halloween provides a particularly tidy set of coincidences. How Halloween became the official holiday of celebrity thirst 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the festival hit maximum capacity, for the first time in more than 15 years, on the day that her name was on the bill. Norah Jones Returns to Her Jazz Roots 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z “I was fascinated by what that means for those who are the subjects of that coincidence.” In '3 1/2 Minutes,' an eerie prefiguring of the Charleston shootings 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the title of the show at Drive East is “Kalpana,” the Sanskrit word for imagination. A Great Odissi Dancer Conjures Gods and Demons Alone 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z “But Heinz and Trump? The reason I made this film was to see, was it a coincidence or not?” The Ancestral German Home of the Trumps 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Yet the truth in this production’s performances at least guarantees that, if we peer through the overgrowth of plot and coincidence, we do recognize those people onstage. Review: ‘The Whirligig’ Is a Feast for Actors, by a Knowing Chef 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z It is probably not a coincidence that the first film from their production company will focus on is the birth of the Air Jordan brand. Sports and Fashion Won Big Together This Year 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z By coincidence, the timing of the move allows the corporation to put some distance between TV Centre and the associations it has with the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal. BBC Television Centre to be redeveloped as a 'digital experience' 2013-03-31T17:29:01Z The iconic gunfight, likewise, is less a chivalrous showdown than a comic botch of misunderstandings, coincidences and ill-considered bluffs, and it might be the most underplayed climactic scene in the canon. Westerns by Larry McMurtry, Craig Johnson, David Fuller, Jeff Guinn The flight of the Foxes brings them into contact with federal agents, human traffickers, border militiamen and drug cartels in a slowly dizzying whirl of coincidence and gratuitous violence. Review: A New ‘Mosquito Coast,’ This Time With Narcos 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z In part—as Adam Gopnik has argued—these stories draw us in because history really is full of unknowable realities, strange connections, and unbelievable coincidences. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Zapruder handles this juxtaposition of a traumatic private event and a traumatic shared public one with considerable grace and delicacy, effectively exploiting the coincidence of these events without ever being exploitative. Review | Matthew Zapruder’s ‘Father’s Day’ is firmly situated in our political moment 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Choke down those improbable coincidences and you can move on to the actual cases in “Unforgettable.” Television Review: ?Unforgettable? on CBS, With Poppy Montgomery - Review 2011-09-19T23:23:59Z Instead, it revealed how music, for her, isn’t about instrumentation, but about experiences, feelings and coincidences. Celeste, a Young Singer With an Old Soul, Makes Her Move 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z It's probably no coincidence that the record is being issued on a label called Hate Hate Hate. New band of the day (The Wytches No 1,504) 2013-05-01T15:24:32Z “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher” allows Ms. Mantel to transform a convenient coincidence in her own life into an opportunistic political fantasy. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It was Joyce himself – the coincidence is almost too neat – who opened Ireland's first cinema, the Volta Cinematograph, and foresaw that this new medium must change the way that books were written for ever. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z PG: There’s a sad coincidence: Sofia lost her brother at about the same age. For Sofia Coppola and Anjelica Huston, Oscar’s a Family Friend 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z For this new work, which Ms. Rose plans to set in 16th-century agrarian Britain, she will explore themes of reality, perception, history and coincidence, the museum said. Philadelphia Museum of Art Chooses Rachel Rose for New Commission 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Is that a coincidence or was it intentional? Matthew McConaughey on Singing Along to Carly Rae Jepsen 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s not a coincidence that the addresses given by David Foster Wallace and George Saunders were selected for publication. Congratulations, by the way: David Foster Wallace, George Saunders and fighting the TED Talks-ization of commencement speeches 2014-05-05T00:00:00Z It’s likely no coincidence that “Unapologetic” slides into what is the album’s emotional centerpiece, “Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary.” Album review: Rihanna, 'Unapologetic' 2012-11-19T20:57:00Z "It's no coincidence... that most selfies are shot in pretty exotic locations, on holiday when people are experiencing things that are away from their humdrum, mundane lives," he told Reuters. London exhibition elevates selfies as an art form 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s a strange but serendipitous coincidence that two books devoted to Hollywood classics, “Casablanca” and “High Noon,” are being published at the same time. You Must Remember This: Why We Return to ‘Casablanca’ and ‘High Noon’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z It is perhaps just a coincidence, though a strange one, that the man who produced and godfathered that film, helping the young filmmakers organize the footage, was Andrew Jarecki. With 'The Jinx,' a long yet murky tradition of documentary activism 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z That nearly all the people in these videos seem to fall from 13 to 15 years old is not a coincidence, psychologists say. ‘Am I Pretty?’ Videos Posed to the Internet, Raise Questions 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z He will often describe his success as a product of coincidence and chance. At 95, Dick Van Dyke is still the consummate showman. And he’s desperate to get back onstage. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence surely that the most memorable and prophetic description of her came from someone notably fastidious, who was both awed and repelled by her. Stop treating actors with contempt 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Getting a boost from the coincidence of Gay Pride Day and the passage of a gay-marriage bill in New York State, amassed $400,000 and has cleared $1.5 million in its fourth week. Cars 2 at the Box Office: Pixcar or Ishcar? 2011-06-26T05:55:00Z It’s no coincidence, he says, that in his novel “1984,” George Orwell “made the Ministry of Truth the most important government agency.” O’Shaughnessy’s ‘Men Who Lost America’ wins $50,000 George Washington Book Prize It is a strange series of coincidences really. Johnny Flynn on making the crime musical "The Score," in which characters perform songs he wrote 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z If we did, we chalked them up to coincidence. The Heart Said Yes; the Hindu Horoscope Said No 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z This is a realm of absurd stock characters and hoary narrative devices: cruel governesses, kindhearted orphans, counterfeit wills, hidden passageways, long-lost relations, doppelgängers, clues hidden in paintings, castaways, coincidences, sudden returns from the dead. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z "The more you study the evidence . you'll see it just matches up too greatly for coincidence," Assistant District Attorney David Drucker said in an opening statement. Rapper G. Dep convicted in 1993 NYC shooting 2012-04-17T20:22:11Z It’s a coincidence you’re more likely to come across in the composer’s biography than in Stalin’s. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z It is perhaps no coincidence that Anderson has admitted there is a nod in her character to the late, great Jane Tennison of Prime Suspect. Now everyone wants a silk shirt to look as cool as TV's sexy sleuth 2013-06-08T10:43:08Z It was no coincidence it was held in the Galerie de Minéralogie at the Natural History Museum, surrounded by the remains of former eras. The Weight of History, the Art of Invention: Balenciaga, Céline, Undercover and Comme des Garçons 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z “It’s sheer coincidence that two Dutch people — we were the first with this kind of fat book,” she said. Irma Boom’s Library, Where Pure Experimentalism Is on the Shelf 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z And picking Walter Isaacson to write his biography—that wasn’t coincidence. Oscar Nominee Michael Fassbender on the Problem With Picking Winners in the Arts 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z But most researchers no longer accept this theorybecause subsequent studies showed that it was merely an innocuous coincidence that occurred due to the attraction between aluminum ions and amyloid plaques. DDT, environmental toxins linked to late-onset Alzheimer’s 2014-02-11T13:45:00Z Now coincidence has brought two superlative shows, one in New York and one in Los Angeles, each with an excellent catalog. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z “A to Z,” Thursday on NBC, is partly set in the offices of an online dating service called Wallflower, but it’s a love story that braids coincidence and destiny. ‘Selfie,’ ‘A to Z’ and Others Refresh the Romantic Comedy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that the principle buildings of the U.S. federal government were designed in this style, including the U.S. L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the facade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The movie wasn’t helped by the coincidence of its gunman-mass-murderer plot with the lingering national trauma over the Sandy Hill school shootings. A Hobbit Holiday: Bilbo Beats Babs and Tom 2012-12-24T01:57:00Z “Do you think that’s a coincidence?” she said of Democrats’ back-to-back announcements. Ivanka Trump will do her job, whatever that entails, no matter what happens in Washington 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that six of the eight charged with conspiring in Lincoln’s murder were from Maryland. The last trail of a Lincoln conspirator 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The connection to the call to prayer, or adhan, is probably not a coincidence. Cádiz, an Underrated Corner of Spain 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z By some accounts, the coincidences — predictions, if you will — number in the 20s, or more. ‘The Simpsons’ Has Predicted a Lot. Most of It Can Be Explained. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z "I don't think that it's a coincidence that I'm in the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed," Madonna said at the Wells Fargo Center to nearly 20,000 fans. Madonna to US fans: Appreciate your freedom 2012-08-29T09:46:03Z King was 25 when he read this; it didn’t feel like a coincidence. Marcus King, a Bluesy Rocker Who Stared Down His Own Crossroads 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Foos implied that it was merely a coincidence that strangulation deaths of two young women had occurred within eight days of each other and 10 miles apart. The murder the New Yorker never mentioned 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z That the women both have red hair was yet another coincidence. Molly Ringwald Has Advice to Give and a Role to Match 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The daytime soaps are being bug-zapped from the networks one by one, disappearing into oblivion after decades of reliably dishing out startling coincidences and staggering secrets. | 'Stick Fly': ?Stick Fly? at the Cort Theater - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:07Z Although not everyone in the world of French fashion fell in line with fascist ideas, it’s no coincidence that many did. Op-Ed Contributor: High Fascism 2011-03-07T06:48:00Z It was not a coincidence, perhaps, that it happened offstage. The Grammys Want Us to Know That They’re Trying 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z I don't think it's arrogant, by the way, to say you're selecting subject matter that's relevant to history and it just happens to have a coincidence. "Drunk History" may be the most necessary show on TV now 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence we call it “giving a talk.” Donald Trump’s dangerously effective style: “He’s more human when he talks than just about any other figure we have seen in a long time” 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z “The whole thing was just a coincidence,” said Ms. Han, 29, now a senior associate at Point Olema Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in San Francisco. He Had Many Questions Before Popping the Big One 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z There are moments of compassion, jolts of humor and no shortage of inexplicable coincidences, when logic falls short and belief reaches its breaking point. Veterans' portraits bring war's consequences into sharp focus 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z Odd coincidence, but all I remember at the time was wishing I could feel as happy as Nate did while inadvertently rolling. Saved by Pop Culture: How "Six Feet Under" killed my depression 2011-04-08T12:40:00Z That’s not a coincidence: “I got really into Tangerine Dream in about 1976 – the repeating sequences were heaven for me,” Adams says. 'All my life suddenly made sense': how it feels to be diagnosed with autism late in life 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence, many defense lawyers across the country say, that when misconduct comes up, prosecutors are quicker to propose an Alford plea or similar deal, effectively quashing any further inquiry into the behavior. What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z But she has resisted acknowledging another autobiographical detail as more than mere coincidence: She has a younger biological sister from whom she is estranged. In ‘Heart Strings,’ the Ties That Bind a Family (and a Culture) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z But this fall brings a highly unusual coincidence: new productions of the opera at two of Europe’s most important houses. ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Her friends noticed “the coincidence of her presence at serious accidents,” he writes. Books of The Times: Martin Stannard Traces a Writing Life in ?Muriel Spark? 2010-04-13T22:35:00Z If anything sounds familiar, it is coincidence, Rowling explains in her foreword; she began the book years ago as a bedtime story for her children. J.K. Rowling’s New Non-Potter Children’s Book 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z We ate at La Bourse this evening by coincidence. Daniel Rose, an American in Paris, Comes Home to Cook 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence we all wear the same socks. Pure Barre’s tortured purity: The punishing feminine ideal behind tucking, burning and embracing the shake 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z That body is one of several uninteresting doubles in a story littered with mirrored situations and forced coincidences. Movie Review: ‘360’ With Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law 2012-08-02T22:00:14Z Not by coincidence, Bradley’s trajectory accelerated: In 2011 he left Canada, after three solos, for Gavin Brown’s enterprise and another three. Joe Bradley Begins Again 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z By coincidence more than anything else, many of the films and TV shows Wolfhard has appeared in have been horrors. Finn Wolfhard: ‘I have so much crazy energy’ 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z He in an extemporaneous one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” that, by coincidence, opened at the Public Theater on Oct. The Steve Jobs Backlash 2011-11-03T20:27:20Z Are the names in the film — Mr. Phoenix’s Arthur and Mr. DeNiro’s Murray — a coincidence? This Joker’s a Dancer, Too 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Film noir is, by definition, a dark genre, and there is a trio of new DVDs that, by bleak coincidence, all begin with the letter D. Kenneth Turan's noir-ish DVD picks: Darkness begins with a D 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z And I suppose it’s no coincidence that the majority of modern nomads emerge from a similar social stratum, where we were just handed the privileges and possessions that other classes struggle to obtain. My generation, living on the road 2014-04-20T23:59:00Z Is it a mere coincidence that he was nowhere to be found in the moments leading up to the latest explosion? ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 11: Is Quinn Just a Natural Killer? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z For Simpson, giving his kidney to one of his “kids” was a simple decision once he realized he was a match — an almost miraculous coincidence given the odds of about 1 in 10,000. They opened their home to dozens of young people. Then he learned he could give one more thing: A kidney. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Hawkins was told about the role at a time when she herself was writing notes for a film about a mermaid, a coincidence she said was "magic and rare". Don't be cynical about love, director Del Toro says in adult fairytale 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Bay said the timing of his new offering is merely a coincidence. Rdio debuts cheaper streaming, but can it reach a wide market? 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Now that I’m singing opera, it’s just a weird coincidence. From mariachi tunes to operatic arias 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But he also said the shirts were an opportunity to incorporate “little Easter eggs and coincidences, which are a major theme for the movie as well.” Reading ‘Us’ Through Its T-shirts 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z The connection draws them all together in a web of coincidence and fate. Film review: Revanche 2010-04-29T22:20:00Z It is no coincidence that almost every scientific conference that I go to about climate change now has a new type of attendee: the military. Humans – the real threat to life on Earth 2013-06-29T23:05:50Z The coincidence is not lost on many film scholars. Mary and MoMa: The Case of the (Still) Missing Film Stills 2012-01-11T19:14:15Z However, that same powerful technology that helps solve crimes has also increased the likelihood of finding very similar fingerprints by accidental coincidence.” Fingerprints aren’t proof 2012-09-23T12:30:00Z It’s not a coincidence that the Jordan meme took off just as N.B.A. stars used the sport’s biggest stages to model humility and playfulness. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z But much of the rest is unclear, particularly the almost unfathomable series of coincidences and superficial similarities that may or may not tie together Mod's clandestine beginnings, and scores of later happenings. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-03-14T10:00:01Z Some of them are really, really big and some of them are really, really small and the totally amaaazin thing is that it's not a coincidence. Wonders of Life by Brian Cox – digested read 2013-02-03T19:30:01Z Joining Michaels for a phone interview on Tuesday, Fey laughingly labeled “a coincidence” her presence on any good shows she’s guest hosted. Lorne Michaels, Tina Fey Reunite for ‘SNL’ Opener 2013-09-25T15:28:37Z This didn’t feel like a coincidence: As the project, decades in the making, finally materialized over the past few years, van Zweden has seemed like an afterthought, along for the ride. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Could Be the New York Philharmonic’s Future 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z It's just a coincidence that all three films are playing at Sundance, he said. James Franco explores leather, sex at Sundance 2013-01-22T18:40:10Z For another, its many semiprivate dealers occasionally mount shows en masse, whether by plan or coincidence, that amount to collective mood swings. 2010-01-29T06:18:00Z Symbols tend to be marked with coincidences that add to their legend. T'Challa forever: We lost Chadwick Boseman but not the symbolism of what he represents 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z This involves as much coincidence as supernatural manipulation; but the payoff could leave viewers in tears. 'Hereafter' Review: Clint Eastwood Goes Supernatural 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z At times this kitchen sink approach threatens to smother the story, but Maazel propels the narrative forward with her knack for evoking empathy out of the improbable and transforming coincidence into conspiracy. Fiona Maazel's 'A Little More Human' is like Pynchon writing a telenovela 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z JG: I think you know I don't consider that a coincidence. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z It's no coincidence that veteran progressive rockers Caravan originally split in 1978, correctly intuiting that their elaborate whimsicality and fussy musical virtuosity made them a hopeless anachronism in an era of back-to-basics two-chord brutality. Caravan – review 2013-01-10T13:46:21Z "We are not prepared to accept this as a full and adequate response to this supposed 'coincidence'." Argentina Top Gear lands festive slot 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z "The stories moves across states and time, linked together by coincidences that Rakoff describes in little jewel boxes of scenes that propel the action forward." Summer reads - best book to share: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff 2013-07-22T15:04:00Z A majestic account of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances concluded this programme of European exiles: if the final, falling motif bore a passing resemblance to the Captain Blood theme it was almost certainly coincidence rather than piracy. National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-04-14T14:12:00Z The animated comedy "The Simpsons" will do its send-up of "Homeland" in the opening episode of its 25th season - also airing, by coincidence, next Sunday. After Emmys slip, 'Homeland' turns to new season to regain footing 2013-09-23T21:31:02Z And it was not the only coincidence that made the place seem right. On Craigslist, 3BR Unfinished, Future Husband Upstairs 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s no coincidence then that many of the mental health challenges we face today stem from this experience of disconnect. Let's touch: why physical connection between human beings matters 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z And she thinks it’s no coincidence that the council is making these moves just as its longtime director is about to retire. Culture wars: King County Council to vote on the future of 4Culture 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Certainly it’s no coincidence that the new Rugger store on Prince Street, the second to open in Manhattan in 18 months, is only a few doors down from an RRL storefront. | Gant Rugger: Gant Rugger ? Critical Shopper 2011-10-05T22:02:05Z Although this was a coincidence, maybe I was looking for a certain kind of vulnerability. John Stezaker's best photograph 2012-08-08T17:00:01Z It's probably no coincidence that Jackson's most popular book was a bestselling comic memoir of family life, “Raising Demons.” Shirley Jackson and her bewitching biography, 'A Rather Haunted Life' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z A tale that was once implausible in its stringing together of coincidences no longer seems subject to the same mundane rules of realistic storytelling. 'Color Purple' musical on Broadway has a divine, moving spirit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z What followed was a long string of coincidences, strange encounters and psychic consultations, somehow culminating in her enrollment in shaman school. The wellness revolution has reached its shamans-for-hire stage 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z And, surely it’s no coincidence that we Americans are drawn — from the youngest age — to tales of independent kids. Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z "It's a coincidence, but it's also the directors and filmmakers and artists going inside the world, inside society," he said. Cannes festival chief talks sex and Spielberg 2013-05-14T15:07:11Z That the culpable sister in Goblin Market is called Laura may not be coincidence. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z I’ve seen so much evidence of that, whether it’s strange coincidences and dreams, strange synchronicities. Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman on Conjuring ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z But an extraorinary series of coincidences conspire to put him back in Basra, to strike back – at the enemy, and at the demons within. Chris Ryan's Strike Back and Timothy Spall: Somewhere At Sea 2010-05-06T07:00:00Z Andrew Scahill, an assistant professor of film at the University of Colorado, Denver, said that wasn’t a coincidence: for many people, family reunions and shame-filled year-end assessments are terrifying. When Is a Horror Movie Not a Horror Movie? 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Her shared last name is just a coincidence; her father was a struggling carpenter before he died, and her grandmother was an activist who detested the lumber business. Review | ‘Greenwood’ is an absorbing saga of families and trees — and how they survive 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Which by amazing coincidence exactly fits the Style Invitational second-prize budget. Style Invitational Week 1350: Find inspo in new dictionary words 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Just days earlier, in a prescient coincidence, a group of independent and nonprofit exhibitors met in Utah at the Art House Convergence, an annual gathering just before Sundance. The nasty world of theater ‘clearances,’ and why it matters to filmgoers 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z This was a week before the Bravo network called her out of the blue to appear on The Real Housewives of New York, which, at the time, seemed like a coincidence in and of itself. A Turkish coffee reader predicted my pregnancy (and Andy Cohen’s skin cancer) 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that I grew up to feel the genuine kindness, affection, trust, and validation from millions of you, all over the world. Oprah Winfrey bows out with simplicity, gratitude 2011-05-25T15:25:28Z But there’s less there than the show seems to realize, and the overreliance on coincidence makes everything feel like a contrivance, not a development. Review: ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Soaks in Mood More Than Logic 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z In a terrible coincidence, much of this final season, written long before Applegate received her diagnosis, concerns illness, which made some scenes particularly hard. Christina Applegate Pours One Out for ‘Dead to Me’ 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z These terrible acts, the authors write, “are not a coincidence; they constitute frighteningly clairvoyant readings of ‘Catcher’ — the assassins intuiting the underlying postwar anger and violence in the book.” Books of The Times: A Biography From David Shields and Shane Salerno 2013-08-25T21:13:01Z So here's what's on my mind, to distract myself: Sometimes, by sheer coincidence, you see two movies close together that have similar themes, and they kind of run together. Getting out of jail -- in the movies 2010-10-19T17:05:00Z Hawkins was told about the role at a time when she herself was writing notes for a film about a mermaid, a coincidence she said was “magic and rare”. Don't be cynical about love, director Del Toro says in adult fairytale 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z One reviewer compared the experience to "gorging on a DVD boxset", and it's no coincidence that Homes has been writing for TV shows such as The L Word. Women's prize for fiction: a darkly comic and addictively readable winner 2013-06-05T19:48:54Z What is not a coincidence is that the Taiwan Philharmonic, which is known at home as the National Symphony Orchestra, or NSO, is a first-rate ensemble, one of Asia’s best. Taiwan Philharmonic comes to America 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Spooky new girl Cole's arrival coincides with a string of gruesome murders – coincidence, or something more generically predictable? The Hangover Part III, Something In The Air, Epic 3D: this week's new films 2013-05-25T05:00:09Z Because Episcopal liturgies are planned in a three-year cycle, it was by coincidence that the day’s reading was from Luke: “The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times.” After the Election, a ‘Whole Foods Democrat’ Returns to Church 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that both, like Lady Bird, were written and directed by women. Different for girls: why virginity is still a burden for teenage girls 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z “Just a coincidence,” he said with a smile. Dark Mysteries, Written From a Bright Beach 2010-09-06T18:23:00Z It is far from a funny book, but Dickens is there in the language, the coincidences, the unrolling of the story. The Rebel, the Policeman and a Chase Through Britain and Beyond 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z As the interview wrapped up, Mr. Muratov returned to the subject of the Nobel medal and the auction house selling it, whose name, he said, was “not a coincidence.” Russian Journalist to Auction Nobel Medal to Benefit Ukraine 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that Mr. Korine’s camera movements and fluid editing rhythms recall those of Terrence Malick, who uses them for explicitly religious purposes in “The Tree of Life” and “To the Wonder.” The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z The death of two pop powerhouses In a strangely poetic bit of coincidence, the world lost two songwriting legends Monday, men whose tunes defined modern pop and whose collaborations have become classics. The death of two pop powerhouses 2011-08-23T15:45:00Z It’s probably no coincidence that this character, though functionless in the plot, is the one who can’t stop talking about its themes. Review: In ‘The Perplexed,’ Moral Gridlock on Fifth Avenue 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The casually progressive nature of the show is not a coincidence. Molly Yeh’s casually progressive "Girl Meets Farm" is a multicultural Cottagecore fantasy 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The timing – the night before the Cornwall Budgerigar Show – may not be a coincidence. TV review: The Pet Detectives 2011-08-22T20:10:00Z This is not a superficial coincidence where politics and popular culture just happen to intersect. When the Punisher, a brutal comic-book vigilante, comes to your local police department, it can’t be good 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Fate and coincidence are the book’s true interests. Review | Yu Miri’s ‘Tokyo Ueno Station’ focuses its attention on the shamefully overlooked 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Dameron carried the burden of his deception for more than two decades and, in a resonant coincidence, later discovered that his image was being used in a global catfishing operation. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that a snug spot for warming your feet is the epicenter of the Pico ski area base lodge. Skiing Pico Mountain, Killington?s Laid-Back Neighbor 2010-03-12T00:11:00Z But the meeting hadn’t been entirely a coincidence. A Juneteenth Wedding for Two Community Activists 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the last scene shows a damsel in distress revealing to Teddy and the Man in Black, in eerily commanding tones, that she’s a plant sent by the mysterious über-villain Wyatt. “Westworld,” Episode 8: Maeve, the Man in Black, and Backstories Galore 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z But is his parleying with guests at the same hotel merely a coincidence? 'Fargo' Recap: Spinning Into a New Cycle 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The judges aren't in touch with each other, so it is just an amazing coincidence. The graphic novel's spectacular rise: from kids' comics to the Costa prize 2012-11-23T18:45:09Z What if love is never “meant to be,” so much as it’s the product of will and coincidence and hard work? Review: ‘Love’ and ‘Togetherness’ Capture the Arc of the Romantic Pursuit 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Mills again: perhaps it's no coincidence that they crop up so often. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z "It's not a coincidence," Lears added, "that Congress tends to skew wealthier than the American people, in addition to being older and whiter and male." "Knock Down the House" with AOC: New film offers a deeply humanizing portrait of a media obsession 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z That their programs were conceptually so similar was most likely a coincidence. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z In last year’s competition for the Oscar for best foreign-language film, something seemingly odd, the apparent product of coincidence, happened: the Israeli and Palestinian submissions dealt with the same story. A Foreign Film Coincidence, Two Years in a Row 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z By that point, we had long stopped being surprised at the freakish number of coincidences. Words With (I Wish We Were More Than) Friends 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z In the morning the national Planning Inspectorate had rejected Stark’s appeal on Plan A. That afternoon, by coincidence, the Golden Lion was made an asset of community value. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z It can be no coincidence that, in the following years, he wrote three novels – Lilley and Chase, An Imperfect Marriage and A Passage of Lives. A life in books: Tim Waterstone 2010-09-08T07:00:00Z That the music served as an introduction to rank egotist Logan is surely just a coincidence. Westworld recap: season 2, episode 2 – the devil's in the Delos 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Is this glut of fact-based films a coincidence, or is something fundamental going on? Why fact-based stories are destroying the art of fiction 2011-01-23T00:04:25Z Hawkins was told about the role at a time when she herself was writing notes for a film about a mermaid, a coincidence she said was “magic and rare”. Don't be cynical about love, director Del Toro says in adult fairytale 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z It is a dizzying pattern of coincidence contrived by the gods to sport with and punish these hubristic lovers. Madame De … – review 2013-02-14T22:40:01Z It’s probably not a coincidence most of her guests at the announcement party were comedians. Madonna Will Never Go Gently 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Is it entirely a coincidence that Mr. Ritts himself is enjoying a posthumous revival? From Boys to Men 2010-10-15T20:55:00Z These coincidences could be marvelously absurd, too, as when a boat emblazoned with the name Hornblower Hybrid trundled toward the reedlike Mary Read, a hulking impostor in the middle of her meticulous, melancholic solo. River to River Festival Embraces Ambiguity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z “It’s just a coincidence that I have weird relationships with these middle-aged men.” Julia Garner Is the Tough but Tender Heart of ‘Ozark’ 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Can it be a coincidence that a week ago the San Jose Mercury News reassigned its music critic to the real estate beat? S.F.'s Other Minds concerts create some otherworldly sounds 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Is it a coincidence that the result brought Sondheim the best reviews of his career to that point? Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The stereotypes and coincidences are piled high along with the family baggage. Movie Review: ‘Deadfall’ Stars Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde 2012-12-07T00:31:59Z David Mitchell’s novels are flecked with meaningful coincidences, to borrow Carl Jung’s description of synchronicity. Review: David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’ Plunges Into a Battle of Immortals 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Then, by sheer coincidence, Studio 54 became available for rent. 50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Time, experience and uncanny coincidence spiral through these pages. 'When Women Were Birds': Grappling with a mother's parting gift 2012-04-11T22:26:06Z Is it any coincidence that the Ashes start next week? The Duckworth Lewis Method: Sticky Wickets – review 2013-06-29T23:05:36Z It’s probably no coincidence that the album appears in this election year. New Music: Music From Yeasayer, Tamia, Lionel Loueke and Divine Fits 2012-08-27T21:53:22Z And it may also have been a coincidence that reports filtered through Twitter and Facebook of an Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach were hard to confirm. Art Basel Miami Beach Wraps Up Its 10th Year 2011-12-10T12:30:08Z It was a sweetly serendipitous coincidence, and I’ve felt grateful for it every day since. Ownership is overrated: the joys of communal property 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Apparently the similarity of subject and title is merely a coincidence. | 'Blue Bloods': The Thin Family Line: A Dynasty of City Cops 2010-09-23T23:05:00Z Is it just a coincidence that the three operas you’ve done at the Met are all modernist, quite spiky scores? William Kentridge Brings ‘Wozzeck’ Into the Trenches 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z If our rendezvous were a soap opera plotline, the coincidences would have put us right at the requisite threshold of incredulity. “Don’t go in the bedroom!”: Working in Spanish soaps turned my love life upside down– it took years for me to learn love without drama 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z “It’s a total coincidence!” van Hove exclaimed about his eclectic, project-jammed American season. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z That juxtaposition, of a tragic news story and a movie already filmed but not yet released, was an unfortunate coincidence. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill in The Watch: Unwatchable 2012-07-26T12:00:02Z It could have been a coincidence; Facebook never explicitly acknowledged the petition. Why Is Facebook Rejecting These Fashion Ads? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s not a coincidence maybe but it wasn’t schematic. ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Nanni Moretti on Tackling Big Game 2011-05-18T16:54:44Z And by happy coincidence it also has the highest concentration of bothies in the country. Scotland’s best Highland bothy weekend adventures 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z But I don't think it's a coincidence that I started to drift away from them around age 11 - the same time I started being aware of the male gaze. Leigh Bardugo's top 10 childhood reads 2013-06-28T09:00:00Z It's no coincidence she was brought on board in February during sweeps season. For Zoey Tur, a new life as transgender woman takes flight 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The coincidence of that date and Cosby's stature as one of pop culture's favorite dads prompted this interview. A Q&A with Bill Cosby, all-American dad 2010-06-16T23:28:00Z It is my hope that this coincidence will bring more awareness to this cause.” Justin Timberlake Will Not Be Sued by the ‘Take Back The Night’ Foundation 2013-07-17T15:23:00Z But the central action came in the scenes Juliette hadn’t witnessed, when — by dint of a typically egregious “Affair” coincidence, like the sudden death of Etienne — Noah discovered that Furkat was in town. ‘The Affair’ Season 3 Finale: A Day in Paris 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z World cruises take a lot of time and money, so it’s no coincidence that passengers are mostly in their 60s to 80s. Cruising around the world in 115 days 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z This isn’t purely coincidence: Anticonvulsants reduce seizures in part by “decreasing abnormal excitement in the brain.” Can we trust addiction medication? 2012-10-04T22:09:00Z I don't think it's a coincidence or anomaly that Bernie got the support he did twice. Democracy, not consumption is "how we will amass power to challenge the corporate behemoth" 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The tourist was wearing the unofficial uniform of all tourists in Cuba—Che Guevara t-shirt and single-starred beret—and the lookalike had successfully capitalized on the heartbreakingly predictable coincidence. The way we left Cuba 2012-12-31T18:00:00Z The choice of cities isn’t a coincidence; Seattle and New York are two of the most cost-prohibitive urban areas in the country. Why a city block can be one of the loneliest places on earth 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z It came about as the result of a series of coincidences. Comedian Mark Tomas: why I wrote a show about my dad 2012-08-06T17:35:04Z Not by coincidence, it’s an album centered on the guitar, Ms. Wilson’s primary nonvocal instrument, and the one that best evokes her troubadour side. New Music: Albums From Rick Ross, Cassandra Wilson and Ralph Peterson 2012-06-25T22:30:29Z As for a version of “Come Dance With Me,” arranged as a cha-cha, it’s surely no coincidence that Mr. Bublé is to perform it on Tuesday on “Dancing With the Stars.” Critic’s Notebook: Michael Bublé Promotes ‘To Be Loved’ 2013-04-27T00:37:16Z For me it’s too polemical, and too reliant on coincidence. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z We agreed how odd and horrible the coincidence was. Why Are All the Exes Texting? 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z But that coincidence allows a play rooted in individual circumstances to broaden into a politically charged cry for help. At the National Theater, Love Redeems, in Various Ways 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z It's only a matter of timing, or luck, or coincidence. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z Politics, ambition, murky things from the past: If these sound like the ingredients that went into some other successful dramas recently, that’s no coincidence. Review: In ‘The Family,’ a Lost Son Might Be Back From Limbo 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z No wild coincidences here: One of her great skills is making the interactions in her books feel utterly true, as well as inevitable, since she has set these people on collision courses. Review: With ‘Heat and Light,’ Jennifer Haigh Drills Below the Surface 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z By coincidence, exhibitions of new work by Mr. McCarthy also opened last week at Hauser & Wirth’s vast, recently opened gallery on West 18th Street, as well as at its gallery on East 69th Street. Art Review: Jeff Koons at David Zwirner and Gagosian, and Paul McCarthy at Hauser & Wirth 2013-05-16T21:42:19Z It is no coincidence that shows such as Westworld and Humans, as well as movies such as Ex Machina, all take place in a future that still looks remarkably like the present. Search and destroy: can James Cameron revive the Terminator by killing its past? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z So, despite the lack of a concrete tie between the two movies, the timing is — obviously — not a coincidence. Make Chaste: How the Faith-Based Counterpart to 50 Shades of Grey Came to Be 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z One wonders, however, what the comic purpose of swashbuckling perils and improbable coincidences is, other than to convey the fun of writing them. Finding the Funny in 17th-Century History 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “It’s not just a coincidence that this play is set on a Revolutionary War tall ship,” Mr. Keegan said. Marina Keegan’s ‘Independents’ at the Fringe 2012-08-19T03:40:26Z “Dodge intimates that through such coincidences we can spy the divine,” our reviewer, Ismail Muhammad, writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z We are more than familiar with the idea of the intertwining lives of urbanites, their fates meeting at critical junctures that at first looked like mere coincidences or side notes. Navigating race, America, identity and food: Aziz Ansari’s “Master of None” blazes an important path 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Verity's friend Henry insists everything is just a coincidence..... Mistress of the Storm by M.L. Welsh - review 2012-07-18T14:00:00Z It traces the ways artistic instincts, family dynamics, business considerations, cultural shifts and sheer coincidence can shape memorable songs. How the Bee Gees Stayed Alive 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z This one, however, seems to be largely a matter of coincidence. National Symphony Orchestra says farewell to 7 members and their 251 years of service Lopez’s script often relies on melodramatic strokes and schematic coincidences, and the monologues can get preachy. A thought-provoking ‘Whipping Man’ at Taproot 2013-04-04T22:43:14Z But the coincidence is too grim and too obvious to let pass. "The Bang Bang Club": A haunting lesson in war-zone journalism 2011-04-23T21:45:00Z “It’s not a coincidence, the challenges Shahzad had growing up and the way he plays rock. It’s about being forced into confrontation with mortality,” Ribot said in a phone interview. How Shahzad Ismaily Became Musicians’ Favorite Musician 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z And is it a coincidence that Brooks’s murder required the skills of an expert marksman? ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 4: 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z He’s still an unparalleled choreographer of outrageous calamities that exist somewhere between coincidence and fate. John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries’: One writer’s beginnings 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Hardly by coincidence, the perfect accompaniment to such dishes is from the neighboring vineyards of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, where the country’s best white wine originates. An Adriatic Feast on the Italian Coast 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Context changes everything, and the expressive coincidences of “No Man of Her Own” come to seem mere contrivances played against the Paris locations of “Bedevilled.” DVD: Mitchell Leisen?s ?No Man of Her Own? and ?Bedevilled? on DVD 2012-04-08T03:13:01Z Is it a coincidence that she looks like the superheroes she has written about? Kick-Ass Jane 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z It’s certainly a coincidence that a city known for an industry that once thrived on its capacity for replication produced a cocktail spec that has now been rejiggered worldwide. The born-in-Detroit cocktail that has spawned countless variations 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that Cohen’s itinerary in “Abroad” — drawn, evidently, from his years with The Forward, where his editor referred to him as the “Dead Jews correspondent” — takes him through the Ashkenazi heartland. A Polymath Author With More Ideas Than He Can Handle 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z But the coincidence indicates that, outside the billion-dollar dreams of Hollywood, America is full of sad sequels. Despicable and Grown Ups Sequels Pummel Pacific Rim 2013-07-14T19:19:19Z Amid a flurry of coincidence, Linda’s fidelity is thrown into question and the sparring brothers end up on an odyssey to investigate. Jeff, Who Lives at Home: A Slacker Comedy with Heart 2012-03-16T14:53:24Z Phelim O'Neill For a show sold as a stylish, cerebral antidote to the morass of CSI-style procedurals, The Killing seems dispiritingly formulaic, with the same dubious coincidences and red herrings popping up each week. TV highlights 11/08/2011: The Culture Show At The Edinburgh Festival 2011-08-10T22:00:01Z A triangular monument in Triangle Park on a triangular plot of land is more than a pleasing coincidence of geometry. New York’s Necessary New AIDS Memorial 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Yet the DNA evidence later revealed she was wrong, and that’s not all: By coincidence, the man who had in fact assaulted her had been enlisted as “filler” for the lineup. There is no justice: What cops and courts get wrong about the human brain 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z It's interesting that weight wise, its 2.2 pounds to the kilo, is that "2,200" a coincidence or some sort of typo? Risky Baking: It’s Hard to Make a Perfect Bagel Without Lye 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z By coincidence, after decades of marriage and motherhood in Boston’s crowded suburbs, I’d wound up in circumstances that allowed me to put myself — to the extent possible — in the mind of the reclusive poet. Reviving Emily Dickinson in 10 Episodes 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The calendrical coincidence meant all the major studios stayed away from new film releases this weekend. Friday box office: 'Ouija' inches ahead of 'Nightcrawler' 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z She closed with “I Could Have Danced All Night,” which I mentioned was also sung by Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish titan of opera, to whom she’s been compared — a coincidence, Ms. Davidsen said. The Met Opera’s Newest Star Returns, on the Small Screen 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that ardent lovers, in life and art, often unexpectedly prove the most tender parents. Motherlode Blog: ‘Are Parents Better Lovers?’ 2014-02-14T19:50:10Z "Every town and village in the land honored their dead. It's by coincidence, really, but it's very fitting we're doing this now, so close to the anniversary of the outbreak of the war." Change is in the air at 'Downton Abbey' 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Irvine said the three are ecstatic about the coincidence and love talking it up. Three firefighters from the same station had babies in a 24-hour span 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z And then occurred a curious sequence of events – and a yet more bizarre series of coincidences and opportunities – which made writing songs and forming a band seem not only reasonable, but possible, verging on inevitable. The critic who hit the stage 2010-05-13T21:00:00Z Yet Pinnock's choice proved a minor miracle, or at least a flabbergasting coincidence. Pinnock, Rana fill in admirably with L.A. Philharmonic 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z And, apparently by coincidence, it happens to follow the same chord progression as "I Won't Back Down." Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne added to credits of Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me' 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z "One might wonder if it's mere coincidence," he writes. The death of the iPod 2011-03-18T08:00:02Z At the time, people wondered whether her choice of the Gucci blouse was a pointed statement or a simple coincidence. Melania Trump Wears Black to the President’s Speech (and Twitter Reacts) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z As it turned out, the unresponsive visitor, who had entered the bar by sheer coincidence, was her good friend’s twin. Katherine Waterston of ‘Inherent Vice’ Shyly Captivates the Fashion World 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Entirely by coincidence, he was there with a small wrap party for what must have been Doodlebug. I was there at the Inception of Christopher Nolan's film career 2011-02-24T11:38:06Z To appreciate the relevance of playwright Ayad Akhtar’s work, you need look no further than two eerie coincidences that shadowed his debut drama, “Disgraced.” Ayad Akhtar: On Muslim identity, and life in America Red was the hot color of the evening, worn by at least half a dozen high-profile attendees in what seemed like a crazy fashion coincidence. Emmys 2014: The red carpet is just that, with an easy, modern twist 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Through some predictable coincidences, Holly persuades Charlie to revive their partnership, not as actresses but as actual detectives. ‘Girl Meets World’ and ‘Mystery Girls,’ Sitcoms From Disney 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Sadly, for Jamie, all their commonalities only added up to a bunch of coincidences. Date Lab: ‘I could swear I’d seen her before’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Just a coincidence that yesterday I also watched "Another Year," the new Mike Leigh movie, much of which is shot in the London town house in which the main characters live. The professions of rom-com heroines 2011-01-20T18:58:05Z The coincidence wasn’t enough to erase my distaste. Women’s Work 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Some critics have noted the coincidence of a pardon and a movie likening Trump to Lincoln. Dinesh D’Souza’s insane Trump-Lincoln movie: A new low for right-wing dementia in America? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z A few weeks later, in the kind of coincidence that’s always happening in Mezrich’s books, I had the chance to interview him. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z It is not a coincidence that we are now seeing laws asserting the "parental rights" of rapists being passed in places like Alabama. Eve Ensler on Donald Trump, rape culture and the "unreckoned history" of America 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z JN: There's an interesting coincidence in the fact that the two defining breakthroughs in modern communications – the transistor and Shannon's mathematical theory of information – should have emerged from the same lab at the same time. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z "There's a nice coincidence but it's rooted in historical fact." William Boyd tinkers with typecast Bond in new novel "Solo" 2013-09-25T14:58:47Z There are unmistakable gothic elements in Ewa’s tale, which is to some extent a lurid fable of wronged innocence, irrational cruelty and wild coincidence set in a landscape of betrayal, brutality and corruption. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Film experts said it was no coincidence that more women were in Cannes' flagship selection this year. Women grab Cannes spotlight with disturbing tales 2011-05-13T12:58:17Z It’s no coincidence that “Winter Chicago,” with its vivid blacks and industrial vibe, sets the tone for Principle Gallery’s “Urban Aspect.” In the galleries: Collaged drawings that zig and zag at Adah Rose “Scholars always noted the suspicious coincidence that Neanderthals made their exit exactly when Homo sapiens appeared on the scene.” Dancing to ‘Yellow Submarine,’ Neanderthal Extinction and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z It's no coincidence that the most recent Bond films are the closest in tone. My favourite Bond film: The Living Daylights 2012-10-05T09:48:12Z In Tom Stoppard’s wildly erudite historical comedy, great men dash in and out of a Wildean romp loosely based on historical coincidence. 17 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z His contender for the Golden Lion is “11 Minutes,” an 80-minute whirlwind of violent coincidence and interwoven catastrophe that the American film critic Glenn Kenny described on Twitter as “a stress monster.” At Venice Festival, the Wisdom of Lunatics, the Wildness of Age 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The show stopped producing big new stars around the time that YouTube emerged as a musical force, and that’s probably no coincidence. The End of ‘American Idol,’ TV’s Last Cultural Big Tent 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The competition between and convergence of these two events, while of course a coincidence, offered a kind of neat symmetry. What Mayweather-Pacquiao may tell us about future 'Avengers' 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s an eerie, prescient coincidence, now that Ms. Mullen has taken the role of Mag. A Mother-Daughter Brawl: In ‘Beauty Queen,’ Marie Mullen Now Knows Both Sides 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z It was no coincidence that the EA and Microsoft situations involved the Internet. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Surprises and Challenges for Video Games in 2013 2013-12-24T13:01:19Z Nor is it any coincidence that the hits are all based on already highly successful young adult books. Bella beats Bond as Twilight movie topples Skyfall from box-office peak 2012-11-24T16:22:26Z The earliest protests arose over the cost of staples in Algeria and then Tunisia, where — no coincidence — the precipitating event was a young food vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, setting himself on fire to protest government harassment. Real-life hunger games 2012-08-07T20:03:00Z If not, it is quite a coincidence that her own and Kinsey's careers took off quite so spectacularly. Sue Grafton: 'My childhood ended when I was five' 2013-03-18T09:00:06Z The story traces a tidy full circle, fate or coincidence returning William Hastings's great-granddaughter to the spot where her ancestor once stood. The Picture Book by Jo Baker ? review 2011-08-26T12:31:01Z Ross’s encounter with Evron’s work three years ago wasn’t a coincidence. Israeli Nir Evron’s visually rich, multilayered take on history 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence his breakthrough album was “Live at the Acropolis,” a recording of a concert. Lindsey Stirling’s Music Combines Classical and Dance 2014-05-02T22:32:38Z Diagram Prize overseer Horace Bent said it was no coincidence "in these austere times that a book aimed to assist members of the public frugally farming their own produce proved the most popular title." Goblin-proof chicken book wins odd-title prize 2013-03-22T13:19:23Z The patter, delivered in Mr. Silven’s smooth, slightly burred voice, is a little pat, as when he intones, “By coincidence, by fate, by destiny, a group of you have come together to predict the improbable.” Fool Me Twice? Yes, Please 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Whether this was actually coincidence or the downward-trending god’s will is the first of many small mysteries “American Gods” sprinkles throughout its initial episodes — and probably the least important. Divine drama: “American Gods” answers our prayers for a show worthy of worship 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z By happy coincidence, this weekend also marks the opening of a fortnight-long arts festival celebrating the under-rated cultural richness of Milton Keynes, including its architectural heritage. Milton Keynes shopping centre becomes Grade II listed 2010-07-16T17:03:00Z It was probably only a coincidence that the designer took his final bow in an atmospheric cloud of mauve fog. New and Old at Armani Privé and Maison Margiela 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z I would rather be forced to swallow the notion of Tyler and Ally meeting through sheer coincidence than watch this unfold. Remember Me Review: Young Love, Hold the Vampires 2010-03-12T19:35:00Z "It's no coincidence that tonight all the winners, the majority of our films are all about the past tragedies that happened on humanity," she said as she accepted her medal. Young filmmakers thank the academy at Student Academy Awards 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that Cecily Brown has a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art right now and that last week a Cecily Brown painting came up for auction. 5 Takeaways From Auction Week 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z As the whole of Thattle Bee Hall prepares for her visit, Jordan wonders why… When his nanny and his gardener die… is it a coincidence or is it just granny? Granny by Anthony Horowitz- review 2013-06-26T11:00:00Z It was a happy coincidence, even if they hadn’t intended to get that certificate. Same-Sex Marriages, 10 Years Later 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z After Pete discovers the trunk with Rothstein’s stolen notes, King begins to weave this web of characters, coincidence and connections with dizzying speed and dazzling facility. Book World: ‘Finders Keepers’ by Stephen King 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z But even if Steve Carell's turn in "Despicable Me" and his departure from "The Office" are linked only by coincidence, this irresistible animated surprise kicks off his career as a movie star in auspicious fashion. "Despicable Me": Steve Carell's adorable supervillain 2010-07-09T17:30:00Z The subsequent investigation lurched from a coincidence here to a strained subplot there, gradually revealing a comically elaborate revenge plot on the part of a former F.B.I. agent. Season 2 of ‘The Bridge’ Starts on FX 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z But any similarities to Hollywood’s version of space soldiers are “a coincidence,” said Tracy Roan, chief of the Air Force uniform office, which is responsible for Air Force and Space Force uniforms. Space Force Uniforms Meant to Capture the Vastness of Space 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z With no one watching in her efforts, and no one there to help her convince herself that her powers were anything other than coincidence, Lottie got too close to reality so her mind took over. "Yellowjackets" makes "Lord of the Flies" seem like Dr. Seuss 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z The Idea of a Woman O.K., it was a coincidence that Fashion Week overlapped with International Women’s Day, but how great was that? Fashion Diary: Wrapping Up Fashion Week in Paris, With an Iceberg and a Wake 2010-03-12T20:20:00Z As far as anybody knows, the actor Dominic West is not related to the notorious serial killer Fred West; it is a mere coincidence that one will play the other in a forthcoming television drama. What's in a name? 2011-01-18T20:00:02Z Still, the gamble paid off spectacularly well and perhaps, given her single-mindedness, it is no coincidence that Riseborough is drawn to feisty roles. The rise of Andrea Riseborough 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z But it’s no coincidence, I realized yesterday, that this same friend first alerted me to the phenomenon of Crombie as Gilbert Blythe. Why We Loved Gilbert Blythe 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Another contributor made fun of France’s rivals on the other side of the channel, saying: “Just spoke to an English friend. He tells me England’s playing Croatia on Wednesday. So I’m like, ‘What a coincidence. France holds collective breath as World Cup feats fuel joy and hope 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z It was more than a coincidence; the film was shot largely in the vicinity. Wynn Chamberlain, an Artist in Paint, on Screen and in Novels, Dies at 87 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Helping matters was the discovery that he lived only a few blocks from my childhood home, an astonishing coincidence in a city of more than 10 million. Modern Love: So Much in Common, in Name Only 2012-07-12T18:26:59Z "It's a bit of a coincidence," says Foster. Why did Cheryl Cole get dropped? 2011-05-27T08:04:17Z If you insist on nominating moments of serendipitous coincidence, meanwhile, then your justifications had better be good. Readers recommend: songs about fate and destiny 2010-09-16T23:01:00Z It’s probably no coincidence that schadenfreude — the joy you get from the failure and embarrassment of others — is listed among this year’s Scripps competitors’ favorite words. Someday, the spelling bee winners may wish they had just played football 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z I wish to argue—or should say, this being an essay, float the suggestion—that something other than either coincidence or appropriation is going on in James’s use of the word as a title. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z By another coincidence a significant portion of my new novel, Waiting for Sunrise, also took place in that hinterland and along that coastline. William Boyd: Why I love Keane 2012-06-14T20:29:00Z Let us hope the retirement from the public platform of two such esteemed groups is just an unfortunate coincidence, and not evidence of a deeper problem of chamber ensemble viability in the current economic climate. Leopold String Trio/Osborne – review 2012-07-11T17:00:01Z She also noted that coincidences are far more common than people realize. What Is Randonautica Really About? 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The Academy Awards ceremony, originally set for February and delayed by the pandemic, airs April 25, the birthday of her late father, David Warren, and a coincidence that she calls “so cool.” 12-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren hopes for ‘awesome’ win 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Is it a only a coincidence that Markham and Walker show up in town at the same time? 'Justified' Recap: A Big Gun and a Land Grab 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z And it’s no coincidence that the band, stocked with aces like the saxophonists Loren Stillman and Tony Malaby, sets up shop in the run-up to Election Day, with sets through Sunday. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It was only by tragic coincidence that my ballad became a stage play. The ballad of my son's struggle 2013-06-17T18:07:00Z Like Pip in Dickens’s “Great Expectations”, she evolves from innocent to worldly wise through a novel full of twists and unlikely coincidences. Being Franzen’s friends 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The Washington Township Police Department joked, "It was rumored that this activity might be in ‘response’ to McDonald’s plan of offering 3 new chicken sandwiches in the near future, coincidence?" Chickens terrorize NJ McDonald's, 'chase' customers and peck at car tires 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Which isn’t by coincidence or because it was just easier for everyone on set to call the comedian by her real name. SXSW 2015: At riotous 'Trainwreck' premiere, Amy Schumer gets real 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence, says Ash Atalla – producer of The Office as well as newer cringe com hit People Just Do Nothing – that the genre’s early exponents worked in the faux-documentary format. From the King of Comedy to People Just Do Nothing: why the 'cringe com' reigns 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z It's no coincidence that Paolo's movies are systematically finding themselves embraced by a festival where the bar is so high and multicultural. Cannes intro leads Penn to rock 'n' roll 'Place' 2011-05-20T12:54:13Z So it’s by no small coincidence that I am enrolled in a Christian school. Godsmacked: I’m an atheist at a hardcore Christian academy 2014-01-24T13:00:00Z It was a coincidence that the ceremony fell on Election Day. 106-year-old woman with desire to vote becomes a citizen — on Election Day 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z These were, I realised, no more than coincidences; but when there are so many, it's hard not to imagine they might speak for connections of a deeper kind. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z A spokesman for Smith said the singer "acknowledged the similarity", but the likeness was "a complete coincidence". Petty given credit on Sam Smith song 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z The core of the film is Jill and Abe’s tragic innocence and the unfortunate accidents and coincidences through which they mesh. The Existential Genius of Late Woody Allen 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Murphy doesn’t mention in her ad that she’s talking about “Beloved.” Perspective | In the Va. governor’s race, ‘Beloved’ is reduced to its most explicit parts. That’s obscene. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z My father left us when I was five to join the Blackshirts, which seems to me a curious coincidence. Interview: Elizabeth Sigmund, dedicatee of The Bell Jar – Reading group 2013-01-18T17:16:43Z “There was something about this crazy coincidence of millions of cars driving around, and these two cars pulling up next to each other,” Silver said in a separate interview. In '3 1/2 Minutes,' an eerie prefiguring of the Charleston shootings 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Any comparison to Clinton's stunning change in circumstances is an "accidental coincidence," he says. 'Veep' and the art of nailing Washington politics, Trump or not 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s an unhappy coincidence that might not be worth mentioning if “Iron Man 3” didn’t underscore just how thoroughly Sept. Movie Review: ‘Iron Man 3,’ With Robert Downey Jr. 2013-05-02T12:00:01Z No doubt this was a coincidence, but there may be something useful to be learned about men’s wear by examining the reasons for this canine confluence. Fashion Review: Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders, Michael Bastian, Patrik Ervell and Timo Weiland - Review 2012-02-15T00:22:34Z Maybe it's the beginning of a backlash against the naturalistic tone and minimalist manner of so much American independent cinema in the 2000s, and maybe it's just a coincidence. "Super": The sad-sack superhero indie reaches its insane apex 2011-03-31T00:31:00Z The New Orleans product said he had no idea the song would be used, but he doesn’t believe in coincidences. Rapper Mystikal breaks silence on dropped rape charge 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Prior to the airing of “Baseball” I was able to pin down Waters to chat about coincidence in addition to talking about how the show chooses which subjects to explore. "Drunk History" may be the most necessary show on TV now 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The food and beer might be local, but it's no coincidence that the 2,000-head event ends on 4 July. Far from the mainstream festival crowd 2010-05-20T20:30:00Z Near the end of the book, the possibility of a terrible plot twist arises — the kind that rests on a preposterous coincidence. In Nell Zink’s ‘Avalon,’ a Young Woman Is Too Busy for Revenge 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z What a coincidence: That last quality is the title of both her latest album, which topped the Billboard chart last fall, and her tour. Celine Dion, a Consummate Professional, With Winks Galore 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z “They made a costly, painstaking effort to recreate an era. And then having reproduced it, they laid on these sloppy anachronisms, coincidences and fictionalized history.” Searching for a great American rock show: Why is rock ‘n’ roll on TV so hard to get right? 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z It’s no mere coincidence that the opening track on the final album from singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester, who died in April from bladder cancer, is a characteristically disarming song called “All That We Have Is Now.” Jesse Winchester's 'A Reasonable Amount of Trouble' an affirming epitaph 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s probably a coincidence that he was my father’s favorite player, which is why my father played catcher and why I played catcher. A Man of Few Words, 90% of Them Memorable 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z And Franzen, even in a novel that flirts hard with Dickensesque coincidence, cements his place in the ranks of the realists. Review: Jonathan Franzen's Purity Examines Wealth and Identity 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Episodes dawdle and dabble too long in too many convoluted story lines, which probably worked fine on the page and filled Ng’s novel with layered and thematic coincidences. Review | The sparks fly in Hulu’s ‘Little Fires Everywhere,’ but it’s hard to sustain the heat 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s surely no coincidence that the alderman Walter suspects of having an affair with his wife is profoundly green and wants to install wind turbines around the capital’s perimeter. A Dutch Novelist Pokes Holes in His Country’s Pretensions 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s still to be determined whether this was a case of plagiarism, a speechwriter’s goof or simple coincidence. A lesson in plagiarism for Melania Trump 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z My new in-laws have a Yiddish word for this romantic coincidence – they call it bashert, which I think roughly translates in Yorkshire to “a reet small world”. How I married a world-champion air guitarist who turned up on my doorstep 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z That wasn't just coincidence; it was intricate familial and professional connections at work. Penny Marshall — actor, director, producer and legend — did it her way 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z That Mr. Palau and Mr. Page both ended up using the sensuality of water in their looks was apparently pure coincidence. | Beauty Spots: Forget Your Umbrella 2011-09-13T19:26:39Z It’s probably no coincidence that I discovered this place around the time of the crisis. Meet the regulars: what makes people want to eat in the same place every day? 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Christopher goes missing for six days, and when he inexplicably reappears the coincidences roll in thick and fast — his mother wins the lottery; Christopher’s learning difficulties disappear. 20 Years After ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky Has a New Novel 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The coincidence of these two decisions, one forward, the other several steps back, suggests that not only does the new administration lack a coherent cultural program, there isn’t even basic communication between its various offices. A setback for D.C. arts and culture, years in the making 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z This might strike you as a happy coincidence but it is not one. Your state just legalized marijuana? You’re going to need some playlists 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Hawkins was told about the role at a time when she herself was writing notes for a film about a mermaid, a coincidence she said was "magic and rare". Don't be cynical about love, director Del Toro says in adult fairytale 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The second coincidence is a production of William Inge's Bus Stop, which opens at Theatre by the Lake next month. Theatre by the Lake: you wait ages for one Bus Stop ? 2010-06-30T15:55:00Z That this time of year coincides with fashion month has always seemed something of a cosmic joke, or a telling coincidence. Immigration! Influencers! Climate Change! What to Expect This Fashion Month 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z That the environs around Turneffe remain pristine is not a matter of coincidence. With covid protocols, a Caribbean fly-fishing haven is back in business 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z There are too many coincidences, too many unnecessary twists and too many quirky characters that distract more than anything else. Picoult's `Storyteller' is structural failure 2013-03-07T16:13:08Z The Incas were superb engineers; such an invisible axis couldn’t have been a coincidence. The Hidden Route to Machu Picchu 2011-06-24T19:06:22Z So I think it’s a little bit of a coincidence. 'Creed' Director Ryan Coogler on His Chemistry With Michael B. Jordan 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The programme makers say the lettering on the number plate was an unfortunate coincidence. Top Gear in Argentina tops iPlayer 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z So it is an amazing coincidence that the Sauberses live in the house where Morris lived right after the 1978 robbery. Review: Stephen King Leaps Through Time in ‘Finders Keepers’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z It proceeds via a series of absurd coincidences, reversals and rescues. A Bright Moon for Fools by Jasper Gibson – review 2013-07-05T09:01:01Z Plus, the reasons you cite for his suiting you — besides sanctuary, which I’ll get to — are ones of coincidence, not character. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Rebounds, personal fouls and knowing the score 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Europe in Mr. Akin’s films, whose stories often hinge on unlikely coincidences and plot contrivances, is a teeming potpourri of oddballs and hustlers. | 'Soul Kitchen': In Fatih Akin?s ?Soul Kitchen,? Restaurant Slapstick 2010-08-19T23:12:00Z Rule’s schedule, by coincidence, meant spending more time with Bundy than any of the other Crisis Center volunteers. Too Close to Ted Bundy 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Life in the world Haggis creates is marked by bizarre coincidences, missed opportunities, and terrible luck. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z "The 50 Year Argument" details the review's founding through a series of timely coincidences - a New York newspaper strike, dissatisfaction with how books were being written about and a dinner party conversation. Scorsese pays homage to New York Review of Books in '50 Year Argument' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z It is not a coincidence that most of the writers on my list are also poets. Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Was it just a coincidence that he’s also from Akron? Chrissie Hynde, holding out for the independents 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that some of Hollywood’s most important film composers studied with Schoenberg when he taught at USC and UCLA. Gustavo Dudamel celebrates his 36th birthday with some Schoenberg 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z It's not a coincidence that Venus is the goddess of love and money. Let's make love our alternative currency 2012-02-14T00:01:00Z Related: Ruth Negga: ‘I never fitted anywhere – in life or in Hollywood’ By coincidence, Negga’s latest film, Loving, is playing in competition at the Cannes film festival this week. When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The timing of the episode—which had literally dozens of other fantastic lines, gags and veiled references that I didn’t mention above—couldn’t have been a coincidence. The Always Sunny Depravity Rankings: “The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award” 2013-09-20T17:17:00Z It’s no coincidence that Sling TV’s lineup includes not just ESPN, but the Disney Channel and ABC Family. Streaming Options Grow But Cable Still Looms Large 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z It can’t be coincidence that the bands he’s enthusiastic about tend not to be the Someone-or-Other Quartets but new bands with names that don’t immediately identify as jazz. Sample Sale: Growing a Jazz Audience 2010-12-03T19:22:00Z Hits like the Daft Punk and Niles Rodgers collaboration “Get Lucky,” he explained, were born mostly of coincidence. Pharrell Celebrates His Career as a 'Weirdo' at a Q. & A. Session at Town Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z There’s a strange coincidence in that the work of the last 18 months of my life has all been released at the same time. Tribeca Interview: Tom Hiddleston 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z An author’s note at the end of the book says, “Readers who wish to find coincidences with real life in this book do so at their own risk.” Review | Much-disputed political assassinations form the framework of ‘The Shape of the Ruins’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z And as is so often the case with lists, the numbers contain subsets that are interesting in themselves, suggesting coincidences, trends and patterns within. ArtsBeat Blog: The 10 Best Books of 2011 2011-11-30T15:00:37Z If contestants’ on-screen personas were at all informed by their real personalities, it was only loosely, or by coincidence. Behind the scenes of reality TV: 'You're a little bit daft to apply' 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z It is as if the author knows this, as his characters later refer to this chance meeting as "a flukish coincidence". Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Dead Men by Richard Pierce 2012-07-18T14:04:46Z Perhaps it’s no coincidence that overworked men talk about not wanting to be “weekend dads”, borrowing the lonely language of divorce. I don't know how he does it! Meet the new superdads 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that many of the best filmmakers to find themselves with no institutional support are black women filmmakers. Forgotten Treasures of Black Women’s Cinema 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z If you look at “Magnificent Obsession,” the things that happen are just beyond belief, in terms of plot twists, improbabilities, coincidences. He Knows Melodrama When He Sees It 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z District Court Central District of California, Sleigh Bells says the similarities between the two songs "transcend the realm of coincidence or shared generic material, and inform the very essence of the works." Demi Lovato sued for copyright infringement 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Sebald's work is driven by associative thinking – coincidences, connections – but his chief aim was to evoke and capture, and his images, rich in mystery, or resonant with pathos, are what linger. A Place in the Country by WG Sebald – review 2013-06-21T15:00:02Z Is it a coincidence that, in 2016, the show would conflate “grave overstepping of political power” with “nationalist racism?” ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 2: Day One 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z And while the plots may be full of extravagant coincidences and wild implausibilities, they are presented with an impeccable sense of proportion and balance, of forms fulfilled with Mozartian grace. DVD: The Italian Potboiler?s Master Chef 2011-06-24T16:42:02Z Vuong’s gorgeous work elevates accident and coincidence to their proper place in the narratives we construct about why we are who we are. The Best Books of Poetry from 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The precise date, for those that are still tracking such things, was 24 March, which was also, by coincidence, the date the British lockdown officially started. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z It was no coincidence, he forcefully argued, that Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven were so well-regarded: Their popularity and acclaim represented the aftereffects of a long-unacknowledged, and deeply rooted, German nationalist ideology. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Is it a coincidence that he looks and sounds remarkably like Harrison Ford/Rick Deckard? In "Blade Runner," who are the androids and what do they dream of? 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z That almost no one knew any of this until the last decade or so is no coincidence. Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Even though young people are dying in droves, the police dismiss it as one of those zany coincidences. Joe Queenan's guide to horror film cliches 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z It's as if the party kind of stopped, and it's no coincidence that happened hand in hand with Aids. Scissor Sisters: 'Sexuality is a universal thing' 2010-06-17T20:30:00Z It’s not actually an inexplicable coincidence that the introduction of reduced-fat processed foods around the end of the 1970s corresponds closely with the beginnings of the obesity epidemic. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z It is no coincidence to connect Venezuela's "El Libertador" with the "Eroica." Gustavo Dudamel and Bolivar symphony bring Beethoven's revolutionary conviction out in force 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Sure, there are some lucky coincidences and things happen on a very expedited timeline in this fast-paced novel, but no more than you would find in your average thriller. What John Grisham gets right about lawyers and the law in his latest novel 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z It premieres Sunday, surely not by coincidence a week before Easter. Temporal approach sets the tone in 'Killing Jesus' 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z For M, like many authors, writing is performance; his process is one of paring, eliminating coincidence and serendipity in favor of a fabricated narrative. Someone is stalking a famous novelist in Herman Koch’s ‘Dear Mr. M’ 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Hensher, author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted "The Northern Clemency," is no genius with plot here, and he pushes coincidence to an absurd degree. 'King of the Badgers': A media circus in England 2011-09-21T23:08:04Z Perhaps it’s no coincidence that some of the best dishes forgo the Lilliputian plates altogether. Ten 01 features big views and small plates from the Ben’s Chili Bowl team 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z This coincidence was just the beginning of many. Date Lab: She knew his cousin from Chicago 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Perhaps it's not a coincidence that it is this video for which the extraordinarily creative Rihanna is allegedly being accused of plagiarism. Rihanna should stick to what she does best ? great music 2011-02-20T15:38:29Z But coincidence is not providence, and trends are mostly meaningful when identified in retrospect. American theatre: the wonder years? 2010-04-07T13:29:00Z Instead of meeting and immediately having a quarrel about their competing businesses, and about the wild coincidence that two Jewish deli proprietors are living in the same building, Jacob keeps mum about his purpose. Hallmark's latest Jewish offering: An order of "Hanukkah on Rye" piled high with racial pandering 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z To be the first is an amazing coincidence. Why horror flick "The Night" is the first American film to be released in Iran in four decades 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The coincidences are minimized by this idea that the past tries to echo itself over and over again. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z The coincidence is that we happen to be in the same family, and we met because we’re siblings and not because we worked together and were colleagues. Auma Obama on Her Famous Brother, Their Instant Connection and Her New Memoir 2012-05-04T15:23:41Z Two of them, a few months after our meetings, became fathers to a first child in almost exact coincidence with their fortieth birthday. What I'm thinking about ... men turning 40 2013-03-11T04:46:40Z “I guess it was just a coincidence that I moved to Bushwick,” she said, laughing. A Near-Death Experience Led Them to the Altar 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The video was a startling coincidence of science, culture and environmental disaster, and I thought of it often as I read Elizabeth Kolbert’s excellent new book. Can We Patch Up the Natural World We’ve Hurt? 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Sullivan and his colleagues concluded that the handful of calls from the same geographic area had been an odd coincidence. Whitey Bulger: Secrets behind the capture of the FBI’s most wanted man 2013-02-24T17:00:00Z “I do think our section was unusually harmonious,” he said, adding “if there is any cause beyond coincidence, it’s the warm environment that Mr. Hanson fostered.” Love and Law: Recent Mergers in 1L, Section 6 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Of course it may all be a coincidence. Spirits of Grandfathers Past 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z It was just a coincidence that my publisher set up the reading on that anniversary so close to the place. Gayle Brandeis on her memoir 'The Art of Misdiagnosis' 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Both New Zealanders, they discovered in a further coincidence that they came from the same home town. Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z In Tom Stoppard’s wildly erudite historical comedy, great men dash in and out of a Wildean romp loosely based on coincidence. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Once we accept this condition, all the wild vagaries of plot and amazing coincidences, with reference to omens and curses and the tyrannies of capital-F Fame and Fate, it becomes a scintillating sort of entertainment. Alexander Chee's 'The Queen of the Night' is an operatic novel of opera 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z According to LaChapelle's suit, S&M's coincidental imagery is no coincidence. Rihanna sued by David LaChapelle over S&M video 2011-02-16T10:13:54Z That’s an astounding coincidence, but there were other instances of incredible narrative symmetry in the book. Gayle Brandeis on her memoir 'The Art of Misdiagnosis' 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z In one of those weird coincidences that Orlean always manages to spot, a library official was meeting with the fire department that very morning to consider finally adding sprinklers to the building. Review | Everybody who loves books should check out ‘The Library Book’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Is it simply coincidence that the two summer films dial up the stylish side of the male makeover, or do they reflect a shift in popular culture? Two new films focus on fixing the hero's wardrobe 2011-08-03T18:08:57Z This may seem like an unfortunate coincidence or it could be genetic. 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z “Fiction became true,” says Moss, a modest sort who still marvels at the coincidences. A thriller writer’s challenge: Make U.S. policy in Africa into a page turner It is not a coincidence that in 2010, when Ms. Kelly moved from the morning show “America’s Newsroom” to become co-host of the afternoon show “America Live,” she hired her own stylist. No One Tells Megyn Kelly What to Wear 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z The word is among more than 300 in the dictionary’s editors latest batch, and they say that the timing is a coincidence. The Surprising History Behind the Word 'Pokémon' 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the most successful dishes I’ve made with plant-based meat have included ingredients like mushrooms, soy sauce, tomatoes and aged cheeses. How to Cook With Plant-Based Meats 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Is it just a coincidence that the plan also involves his undertaking a challenging new role? | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z As undaunted and determined as Ben, Rose sets off again, entering a world thrumming with coincidences and complications. Review: ‘Wonderstruck,’ Todd Haynes’s Imitations of Life 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z And it can be no coincidence that several works from this time refer to gay cultural figures. Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Yet the Lido’s move from cabaret to “Cabaret” is no coincidence. A Paris Cabaret Makes Way for ‘Cabaret’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence, I think, that one “Coal” photo shows seven miners striding toward the camera, just like the Magnificent Seven. Arts & Leisure Preview: Grab a Brew While They Face Death 2011-03-24T16:56:52Z It is notable for its drolleries of language and image, occasional descents into outright corniness and flat-footed insistence on randomness, coincidence or uninflected information as the artist’s main compositional options. Art Review: Tweaking Tradition, Even In Its Temple 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z It’s no coincidence that her production company takes its name from a Cassavetes film. | Screen Siren 2014-02-12T22:37:30Z It is no coincidence that the title of this play is the same as that of a certain chart-topping recording by Robin Thicke. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Ghosts,’ ‘Blurred Lines’ and ‘The Pass’ in London 2014-02-04T18:25:15Z It's not hard to see that online merch shops are a slow yet ongoing trend in the restaurant industry — two is a coincidence, but three is a trend, per the age-old adage. Behind Gen Z's web-fueled love affair with chain restaurant merch 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z Ham — is it coincidence that his name is the same as one of Noah’s sons’? — began his career as, of all things, a science teacher in a tiny Australian town. A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Humiliation is less of a kink for these kids than in generations past, and consent is a requirement, not a coincidence. ‘American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules’ Review: Sex Comedy, Warmed Over 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Admittedly, it might be coincidence, but at a presentation of his Venice plans last week, he wondered aloud, "what the hell happened to housing?" Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-05-25T14:35:10Z That all three places use church pews for seats is hardly a coincidence. Television: ‘Nashville,’ the TV Series Starring the City 2012-10-07T05:09:02Z Pollack understands humor well, and if her novel is approached as a very long standup routine, the coincidences become much easier to swallow. In This Novel, a Grieving Widow Becomes the Detective Hero 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Can it be coincidence that she was shot just as the H-bomb exploded? Echoes of Michael Connelly in Daniel Pyne’s ‘Catalina Eddy’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s probably no coincidence that these shows were made by the stars — the very people who suffered through terrible auditions before landing their own series. These television shows turn the spotlight on racist, sexist Hollywood auditions 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z There are all sorts of interesting technical and other explanations to why and how Kony2012 went viral, but it's perhaps not a coincidence that its popularity was propelled by teenagers. Jason Russell: Kony2012 and the fight for truth 2013-03-03T00:05:34Z Plus I kept digging up jarring coincidences as I went along, and then unearthing some of my father's real hidden story. 'Mess' author straightens out readers about clutter and hoarding 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z There’s a way that such coincidences might make a story feel silly or clumsy, as though they were lesions on reality or cheap effects. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that patriarchal structures look to divide and conquer strong female relationships. ‘House of the Dragon’ Stars on Lust, Forgiveness and Favorite Drinks 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Adams says it's a happy coincidence because the company originally was supposed to move in March. NC's Moog Music: increased sales, new building 2011-05-13T18:14:10Z If all of this sounds familiar, that is not a coincidence. WATCH: “Underground” producers discuss the modern-day relevance of season 2 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Through a stroke of sheer coincidence, Thomas and Craig now occupy the same job as salesmen at a floor vacuum manufacturer. "Dicks: The Musical" puts two narcissist bros under a joyous, filthy spotlight 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z But moments that should induce shivers, including an easily predicted revelation described as both “a coincidence” and “a miracle,” tend to land with a plunk. Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Strange coincidences are in fact the hallmark of this film. 'The Age of Adaline' a stylish affair of the heart and chance 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s certainly no coincidence that in that same span of time, breast cancer rates have declined sharply, and what was once a devastating diagnosis is now, for many, a treatable condition. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z It just all came together in a ridiculous sequence of coincidence. Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters horror movie ‘Studio 666,’ emotional weight of Seattle returns 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z “We started the case 22 years ago, and it’s been 22 years that they have not returned to the Super Bowl. That’s an extraordinary coincidence,” Harjo said. Obama awards Medal of Freedom to diverse group of activists, artists, scientists It’s mere coincidence that Paulina found in his car a cassette of Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden”: the macabre soundtrack of Paulina’s torture sessions. ‘Death and the Maiden’ in Chicago, Starring Sandra Oh 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z It was no coincidence that three college dormitories were within a four-block radius of the hospital. All my wasted New Year’s 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z They fight over a misunderstanding and make up completely thanks to the coincidence that their mothers have the same first name. Why Captain America: Civil War is better than Batman v Superman 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Nemes orchestrates a tour de force of suspense, a swift symphony of collisions, coincidences and reversals that is almost unbearably exciting. Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Lalo is soft-spoken and kind, and she views it as a coincidence that he's from the same town where her husband died. The chameleonic importance of Lalo Salamanca on "Better Call Saul" is that his evil travels 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z In a coincidence straight out of a movie, Spielberg read the article and hired Abrams and a friend to repair some 8mm reels that he had knocking around from his own teenage movie-making days. JJ Abrams: 'I called Spielberg and he said yes' 2011-08-01T19:30:01Z This show had everything: social history, a compelling narrative extracted from photocopies of old documents, genuine emotion, weird coincidences, and the charming Una Stubbs. Who Do You Think You Are?; The Cafe – TV review 2013-07-25T06:00:05Z “I’m sure that there are a lot of people who believe, either for a series of coincidences or not, that Maradona saved their lives,” he said. Sorrentino’s ‘The Hand of God’ a tale of personal loss, hope 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z By coincidence, the series followed the 1990 publication of "Gender Trouble," the landmark book by UC Berkeley philosopher Judith Butler pointedly subtitled "Feminism and the Subversion of Identity." Caitlyn Jenner's courage is bold, Annie Leibovitz's portrait cliched 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z MARGAERY: What a coincidence–I had your son thrice this morning! Recap: Game of Thrones Watch: The Royal Housewives of King's Landing 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z TV executives think it's no coincidence the increases coincide with Americans' rapid adoption of high definition television, which is very popular with sports fans. Basketball, hockey championships gain TV viewers 2010-06-08T20:08:00Z Some like this theory; others see it as a pile of convenient coincidences. In ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves,’ Fiction Fills In Where Tall Tales Leave Off 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z And yet Duncan believed in them so strongly, and she described events that seemed too strange to be coincidences. I Know What I Read That Summer 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z By a staggering coincidence, many day passes remained unsold, and ticket touts were spotted for the first time hawking their wares outside the convention centre. Comic-Con 2010: My favourite bits 2010-07-26T14:23:00Z So too does “My Way,” which comes on the radio just as Peggy has her breakthrough moment -- surely not a coincidence, according to Don. 'Mad Men' recap: Doing it their way 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The plot and characters are not perfectly developed, either: melodramatic coincidence and schmaltzy romance periodically weaken the book. The Bathing Women by Tie Ning – review 2013-03-22T08:00:01Z It is no coincidence that most of the Klee works in the exhibition were composed in the last few years of his life. Klee and Cobra: A Child's Play - review 2011-08-23T13:02:44Z The links between the younger and the older Theo’s experiences feel even more arbitrary than the plethora of coincidences and extravagances on which the story depends. Review: The Wan Faithfulness That Made “The Goldfinch” Movie a Flop 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z They say they submitted their screenplay to the William Morris Agency, which discussed Tarantino as a possible collaborator, and that the overlap of ideas and characters from their script goes beyond coincidence. Quentin Tarantino faces $100m copyright claim over Django Unchained 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z In his “Reality Hunger” review, Wood went on to list plot devices serious fiction is usually better off without: “coincidence, eavesdropping, melodramatic reversals, kindly benefactors, cruel wills.” An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z I have no interest in spies who succeed because of dumb luck or coincidence. Why Seth Meyers Loves Having Authors on His Show 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z There’s a meditation on chaos and coincidence from the artist Harry Dodge. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Joel, by coincidence, will be playing at Nationals Park this weekend. Billy Joel wins the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song I don't think it's a coincidence that I've ended up delving into the myths of different cultures to create my own fairy tales. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z Miller did not draw any firm conclusions from this, however, and contented himself by merely conjecturing that "the recurring sevens might represent something deep and profound or be just coincidence". Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z Through five episodes, its familiar elements are ordered and executed with above-average intelligence and polish, enough that you can overlook a couple of gaping coincidences that keep the plot moving. On TV, Vampires for Every Taste 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z He built a life from openness to chance and the coincidences that ensued. Archie Roach, Who Lived and Sang the Aboriginal Blues, Dies at 66 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Tykwer is an admirer of the great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski, who died 15 years ago and whose profoundly humane movies explored chance and coincidence. | '3': Tom Tyker?s ?3,? a Comedy of Adultery - Review 2011-09-15T22:32:35Z It is perhaps not such a coincidence that three of these four albums, including “Solar Power,” were produced mostly by the seemingly busiest producer in the music industry, the girl-pop-Zelig Jack Antonoff. Lorde Opts Out on the Provocatively Subdued ‘Solar Power’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The forced coincidences on which major plot points depend are the least of Crowe’s troubles. Cameron Crowe's Reactionary Nostalgia 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z This cluster of seismic activity could be a coincidence. Restaurant Review: Blue Smoke and North End Grill 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z It might be coincidence, but it feels more like an act of showbusiness designed to provoke a response. Stonehenge: a new dawn 2012-08-19T19:00:04Z The links between their lives are thin but strong, and the web that emerges between them, in Aoyama’s imagined Hatori ward of Tokyo, vibrates with the coincidence and interdependence of urban life. Books Recommended With Uncommon Wisdom and Tender Care 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z It is not a coincidence that many of the fringe venues are licensed premises. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the interpretation of drams 2010-08-12T11:41:00Z It's no coincidence that, in the 18th century, satire boomed with the establishment of modern parliamentary democracy, nor that it languished during the later Victorian era, during the mass-hypnosis of imperialist jingoism. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z By coincidence, Carell happened to be in a meeting with the executive producer of “The Late Show” the day Colbert was announced as the next host. 3 hours of makeup later, Steve Carell becomes John du Pont for ‘Foxcatcher’ 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Those tended to be scheduled on nights with a full moon, by “absolute cosmic coincidence,” said Splash. The Time-Warped Charm of Valerie June 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z This isn’t so much coincidence as fate; somebody evil holds the strings. 20 Years After ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky Has a New Novel 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Is it coincidence, then, that the rise of postmodernism in the 1970s overlaps almost exactly the decline of satire? Has America turned into a spoof of itself? 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z He doesn’t think that’s a coincidence – larger economic forces are afoot. Welcome to suburbia: the millennials done with city life – and city prices 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Is that a coincidence, or as members of the “squad” do you guys talk about and recommend collaborators? Hailee Steinfeld on Her New EP and Taylor Swift's Squad 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z His was marked with several Xs; it seemed no coincidence that, his skin being brown and mine white, he had been selected for further investigation, and I was allowed to move forward. Trying to make sense of the world of ubiquitous surveillance 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z It is a felicitous coincidence that these were my last two columns. Fade Out 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z That was the coincidence of timing and really unfortunate.” Design for New Donnell Library by Enrique Norten 2013-05-06T23:00:01Z Humans need to find meaning in the mundane, patterns in random coincidence. Motherlode Blog: Loving Your Child's Differences 2011-10-04T16:05:35Z That this introspective moment coincides with Mr. DeMarco’s turning a corner into his late 20s and adjusting his lifestyle accordingly is probably not a coincidence. How Mac DeMarco Became the Lovable Laid-Back Prince of Indie Rock 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z No coincidence that for broadcast TV, one of the major competitors with Netflix for viewer attention, it's a tremendous symbolic and practical setback. Shonda Rhimes' Netflix Deal Is Really Bad News for Broadcast TV 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z It may be a coincidence, but that self-direction goes a long way toward making this among the strongest debuts by an “Idol” singer ever. Idol Bowersox doing her own thing 2010-12-13T20:36:07Z It’s probably just a coincidence that Portland is home to legendary independent retailer Powell's Books. Amazon to open brick-and-mortar bookstore in Oregon just 10 miles from indie giant Powell's 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z “It was kind of a coincidence that I happened to be looking at the right time to catch it,” Gores said. Netflix Put a Movie in Theaters. Good Luck Finding It. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z It is no coincidence that I always wanted to be a teacher. Here's How 5 Legendary Talk Show Hosts Said Goodbye 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z This small geographical convergence of McCarthy’s new book and O’Neill’s older one may seem a minor coincidence. The Long Shadow of “Two Paths for the Novel” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The words wright and write are homophones, a phonological coincidence. Do not dismiss playwrights as mere content providers 2013-06-19T07:00:00Z “It happens more than what I think would be coincidence,” he said. For Larger Customers, Eating Out Is Still a Daunting Experience 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z That is no coincidence, because they were created at the same time, in the same city, by artists who were direct rivals, watching each other as intently as Matisse would one day watch Picasso. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z I’m sure it is just a coincidence that the game’s lead developer, Takeyasu Sawaki, is best known for his previous work on the Devil May Cry series. Critic?s Notebook: A Critic?s Lament: The Games That Got Away 2011-12-24T02:00:10Z The project, set in 16th-century agrarian England, examines the links between “reality and perception, history and coincidence.” Women in the Spotlight at Museums 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The movie is filled with coincidences and odd detours that recall the fantastical ways that movies unite people, whether on a dance floor, across a crowded room or through a wallet. Film: Alain Resnais Explores Desire in ?Wild Grass? 2010-06-19T06:53:00Z Banville says he was once told at a dinner party that there’s no such thing as a coincidence. An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z It is no coincidence a lonely little girl who felt not a lot of love, even though my parents and grandparents did the best they could ... Oprah Winfrey bows out with simplicity, gratitude 2011-05-25T15:25:28Z “It’s not a coincidence that a lot of the work has a personal connection,” she said in an interview, gesturing to the drawings, photographs and collages in her living room. Debts of Gratitude Paid in Paintings, Silkscreens and Collages 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Facts and faces begin piling up along with additional coincidences as daughters start to multiply. Review: In ‘The Third Murder,’ Guilty as Charged Isn’t the Whole Story 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that his visual art was full of dimension and breadth. Renegades and Radical Bodies in 3 New York Exhibitions 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z They explain the coincidences as a result of drawing on similar influences, such as Stephen King’s fiction and the culture of the ’80s. In Ottessa Moshfegh’s New Novel, Nothing Is Certain. Not Even Death. 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z And if you were to go the route of simply finding someone who knows someone, repeatedly, as Alina does, it would probably involve less coincidence. Review: ‘Alina’ Is the Work of an Indie Film Veteran, New at Directing 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But one night in the summer of 2013 the surviving members of the clique come together again, by sheer coincidence, back in New Canaan. ‘Ohio’ as the Locus of 21st-Century Rust Belt Despair 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z It was, after all, just a coincidence that last Monday the China Philharmonic played at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Taiwan Philharmonic comes to America 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Oh, I just happened to read this column, and in an amazing coincidence it precisely addressed your problem!” How can I help my friend who is disabled to meet someone? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Now the coincidence of this meeting jolts him into an éclaircissement: "You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end." American Gods by Neil Gaiman 2011-08-19T21:55:08Z Again, Mr. Manahan was unaware of the coincidence but would probably not have been deterred in any case. Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music Play Strauss’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z The seat-edge money shot failed to arrive, and it is no coincidence that both films were booed. Sex, ghosts money and sainthood – now playing at Cannes 2016 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z When performances work, quite often it's a coincidence of the part and the person playing it – where they are in their lives. 'Vicars' lives are extraordinary' 2010-12-19T00:05:14Z “White Bird” is otherwise full of neat coincidences, grown-up clichés, sentimentality and stock portraiture. A New Book From the Creator of ‘Wonder’ Tells a Holocaust Story 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z That line appears here so many times that it’s clear the author is not a victim of coincidence but using it to her best advantage. Review | Kate Atkinson’s dreamy detective returns, and his first case is a tangle of sex and lies 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The stormy rhythms and claustrophobic shades offer this thwarting mass of sound, and it can’t be coincidence that they just happen to echo Clark’s warbled visions in Mercy‘s “Northern Lights.” David Bryne & St. Vincent Go Big with Love This Giant 2012-09-11T17:00:26Z Nivola cited “weird coincidences” that told him this role was meant for him, including the fact that his real-life neighbor is Tim Van Patten, who directed many episodes of “The Sopranos.” Star of the upcoming “The Sopranos” prequel reveals details 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Indeed, it is probably not a coincidence that the political weight stories are all success stories. For Male Politicians, Dieting Is a Campaign Issue 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z But it’s no coincidence that, as the art form has begun to borrow more from other traditions, the stuff that was once inviolable within jazz is now available for new experimentation. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z It is surely no coincidence that it arose and flourished in the 17th century, when European trade was spinning ever more ambitious webs around the planet. Grinling Gibbons: the wood-carver who took root in England 2010-09-08T09:51:00Z And it is no coincidence that one of its more recent acquisitions was Indigo, the specialist prints expo, which Première Vision has been steadily expanding at its sprawling biannual shows. The Future of Fabric Prints Is Bright 2012-02-21T18:16:17Z Darrell Grand Moultrie’s “Seeds of Endurance,” like “Nakamuraya,” featured dancers in long skirts — is this just a strange coincidence? — as well as frantic runs that stopped short of the front of the stage. Dance Review: Juilliard Presents Pina Bausch’s ‘Wind von West’ 2013-12-16T22:28:36Z Having the D.E.A. agents stumble across the sicarios at the very moment Poison is about to cap an infant is an absurd coincidence and the shootout that follows isn’t any more convincing. 'Narcos' Episode 7 Recap: The Trouble With Steve Murphy 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z It could be coincidence that the other films just happened to come out in time for #MeToo. This Year’s Oscars Belong to Strong Women in Fierce Roles 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z To paraphrase Ian Fleming: To read one good book is happenstance; two is coincidence; three is wild good fortune. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z By coincidence, she was taking a swing-dancing course at the time. Dancer/choreographer Catherine Cabeen jumps 'Into the Void' 2011-04-25T23:32:44Z Shot mostly in west London, the five interconnected short films combine to build a radical portrait of the contemporary city, which is recognisable yet retains a sense of wonder at life’s little coincidences. Idris Elba: ‘If I'm going to watch TV it wouldn't be a period drama, put it that way' 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Now, I’m not saying that might not be a coincidence. Fox News is half-right about Jon Stewart: How the brilliant satirist of the Bush years has been undone by his BFF in the White House 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Or was this just a monumentally weird coincidence? Art imitates art? Damien Hirst’s Venice Biennale installation looks a lot like another’s 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z There are coincidences, chance encounters, faith healers, high crimes, medical emergencies and other disasters. A Numbers-Cruncher Confronts Emotion and Other Unquantifiable Matters 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z I crept to the lone empty seat, right in front of the stage; it happened to be at the table of a musician I knew, a happy coincidence. Listening to Devon Sproule 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence, particularly with girls, that so much merchandising is centred on the notion of unbreakable bonds and being best friends forever, forsaking all others until death us do part. My best friend met the love of her life – and I can’t cope 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Brown rearranges appearances to create his world of wacky coincidences, but the consequent confusion over 'fact' and meaning understandably annoys some parties. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z Two movies within a space of just six years about one-armed or one-handed Germans who end up dead because of Hitler, and you think that's a coincidence? 127 Hours and the one-armed box-office bandits 2011-02-24T22:15:01Z “A nice coincidence” is how Cooper describes the timing. Soon to rule the roost at National Gallery of Art: A 15-foot blue chicken 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z And all that time the script lay there, until – nearly 10 years later, through a series of coincidences – it seems to have insisted on finding the light of day. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Warshavsky said the timing of the suit on the eve of opening night was a coincidence. Shirelles and Dionne Warwick sue new Broadway show 2011-04-28T00:38:38Z It is no coincidence that Nickelodeon has scheduled the premiere of “Victorious” for what is arguably the most coveted spot on cable television’s calendar, following Saturday’s daylong festivities around the annual “Kids’ Choice Awards.” Creator of Nickelodeon Hits Ties New Show to Song and Dance 2010-03-25T21:51:00Z How was it that every coincidence lined up in such an inconceivable methodical way that the ancient Greek hero would fulfill the prophecy of killing his father no matter every step taken to avoid it? When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z At first, Bill says the names are a mere coincidence, and describes the men’s relationship as “complicated. Things didn’t end well between us, or I don’t know, we drifted apart.” 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Interventions on Several Fronts 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z In one of the more unfortunate coincidences of timing, the Milan women’s wear season draws to a close in the long shadow of the Oscars. Runway vs. Red Carpet 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The science fiction aspect is thematically vital and integral to Zapata’s mission, which is to portray the workings of coincidence and multiversal alternatives in our daily lives. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z The choice to write a character as a particular race is never a coincidence. Writing the White Boyfriend: How today's love stories are revising interracial romance tropes 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s just a coincidence that the U.S. team failed to qualify for the World Cup shortly after we had elected a president who vowed to turn his back on the world. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the monstrous tropes of horror’s mainstream began to be configured during the rise of eugenics in the United States. Midsommar's ableism resurrects the dark history of eugenics-inspired horror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Given the recent massacre in Florida, that seems like a gruesome coincidence, but don’t be too amazed. Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Maybe it's just a coincidence, and completely unrelated to the box. The Possession – keeping it real 2012-05-30T12:29:00Z It may be no coincidence that Holland now lives in Burgundy. Wilde's grandson's stage scandal 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z To lend that level of coincidence that always infects a rural crime thriller, Philip’s new foster mother is the local sheriff. Eyewitness review – a compelling and complex crime show remake 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z There's little coincidence that Randy Houser's new album, "How Country Feels," arrives just as the title track reaches No. 1 on the country radio charts. Review: Houser returns with radio-ready album 2013-01-24T13:17:14Z Boty was herself regarded as a beauty, and it is no coincidence that visual documentation of her art often seems to portray her with it. Christine Keeler's nude photograph: still sexy and subversive, 50 years on 2013-05-01T14:56:17Z I don't believe it's a coincidence that midway through 2020, no number of passes through the dryer made those MyPillows comfortable enough get me through the night. I kicked Mike Lindell's MyPillows out of bed and finally got a good night's sleep 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z A rep for the restaurant, meanwhile, described the kangaroo offering as an “unfortunate coincidence” and claimed that the exotic meat was ordered far in advance of the fires. Despite Australia fires, Utah restaurant defends sale of kangaroo burgers: 'Not planned in any way' 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z This “Long Goodbye” takeover is coincidence, of course. Robert Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ Is Popular Again 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z By coincidence, they all grew up playing my music – and by the way, I’m the oldest. Gregg Allman: ‘I learned to play mostly from black people’ 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Although the story starts with a bang, the exposition required to catalog all of the exceptions and coincidences responsible for the incredible scenario soon bogs things down. Novel take but predictable revelations in 'The Whipping Man' 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that your name means “beautiful wait” in Siswati. Tiny Love Stories: ‘With You, I Can Be a New Person’ 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z They're now saying it's not totally a coincidence it's coming out in an election year. Cannes 2012: live blog - day seven 2012-05-22T14:19:57Z “But it’s a coincidence,” he said, explaining that “decisions such as a watch’s color are made long before the final product is ready to be introduced to consumer.” Shades of Blue 2013-04-25T16:18:32Z It hardly seems a coincidence that Ms. Yanofsky wrote most of the originals on her album with Jesse Harris, who wrote “Don’t Know Why,” Ms. Jones’s breakout hit. Music: Nikki Janofsky Wants to Act Her Age 2010-05-07T15:58:00Z I mean the little flurries of coincidences and symbols that seem to herald approaching change. Mexican marvels: DBC Pierre and the axolotls 2012-06-20T22:22:00Z It is also the stuff of most folk tales, which surely isn’t a coincidence — little boys and girls are lost, tortured, sacrificed. In ‘The Changeling,’ the Dark Fears of Parents, Memorably Etched 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Is there such a thing as destiny, or is it all just free will and coincidence? 'Lost'-How Will It End? 2010-05-20T19:41:00Z Still, Sunday’s episode, “The Milk and Honey Route”—the second-to-last episode of Mad Men ever—felt like a particularly cruel coincidence. 'Mad Men Recap: 'The Milk and Honey Route' 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z When Ms. Gholson saw Mr. Fallon, 36, reach for the cups, she shrieked, “It’s just a coincidence, don’t touch that person’s coffee!” Before Their Marriages Came These Proposals 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z “It was no coincidence that the one president to make a lasting mark on the Middle East was Reagan’s polar opposite”, Jimmy Carter, Mr Brands writes. The great storyteller’s story 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z I laugh at the coincidence and listen to it for days. The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Of course, it’s possible that all this rewearing was just a coincidence. Jill Biden, Changing the Fashion Game 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z In life, there are no coincidences — I grew up with my family running a costume shop. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Is Halloween's True Queen 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z As Bob Zmuda, Kaufman’s close pal and collaborator, has written in a recent book, it cannot be a coincidence that Kaufman, famous for his ambivalence about fame, disappeared so suddenly. The Belief That Andy Kaufman Is Alive 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z We can't exactly predict what inequality is going to be like in the future but we shouldn't wait for some incredible coincidence when r and g match up before we do something. Book Talk: Game-changer or Marx revisited? A new tale of capital 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z When they discovered this intersection of her career and his personal interest, they knew it was no coincidence. Date Lab: He felt like he was on a date with a celebrity 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s also probably no coincidence that little-known comics are more likely these days to get attention from producers and industry people if they build shows around a narrative or theme. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z All right, he didn't quite put it that way, but it's no coincidence that the middle ages gave us the word "drone". Rewind TV: Call the Midwife; Louie; Howard Goodall's Story of Music – review 2013-01-26T22:45:01Z A spokesman for Astrium, the company which builds them, said the name preceded the film and was probably a coincidence. Judgement Day 2011-04-21T15:45:59Z Whether by coincidence or quick responsiveness to the U.S. Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z “The fact that a woman is sitting on the throne in our show at the same time the gender equality movement hit is a coincidence,” he said. Medieval Times Goes Modern, Replacing Its Kings With Queens 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z In a sad coincidence, Mr. Medvedev died a few days after the premiere. Review: 'The Passenger' Gets Long Awaited Full Staging at Bregenz Festival 2010-08-03T14:00:00Z Through coincidences more in line with an O. Henry story than “The Grapes of Wrath,” the cat and his palate will leave everyone satisfied. Rare Steinbeck story, set in Paris, published this week 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The LRB has been called "the leading journal in the west edited by a woman", and it can't be pure coincidence that Beard, Enright and Mantel have provoked the biggest rows. Hilary Mantel: not the first LRB controversy 2013-02-20T14:42:46Z In a coincidence that seems too strange to be accidental, major movements on the Shanghai stock exchange eerily matched numbers associated with June 4th. 50 marathons in 50 days 2012-06-06T22:24:00Z "We fear these minutes were not brought to public attention by coincidence or by accident," a spokesman said. Concern over S4C's peak-time figures 2014-05-07T17:06:03Z This coincidence could be easily dismissed as dramatic license, but, Sulzberger said, it’s not: she was writing to him at the time. This Is the Huge Amount of Work That Went Into Making 'The Crown' Historically Accurate 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It's no coincidence that the film's villain, Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger, is the rare, fascinating antagonist who may be morally bankrupt but, as many have pointed out, isn't fundamentally wrong. Before John Boyega became "Star Wars" hero Finn, he was far more revolutionary in "Attack the Block" 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The sartorial link between dressmaker’s zipper and couture clothing is not a coincidence. Jewelry: Unzip the Bling 2011-01-31T14:40:04Z Naturally the story relies on coincidence and a suspension of disbelief but what's striking is the beauty and humanity of Ness's writing. The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness – review 2013-04-21T08:00:12Z Ms. Marciano writes with such authority and storytelling virtuosity that incidents like these feel less like narrative contrivances than the sort of startling coincidences randomly tossed up by the wheel of life. Books of The Times: No Safe Harbor for Travelers in ‘The Other Language’ 2014-03-30T21:47:39Z By fortunate coincidence, SAM has just acquired a major O’Keeffe abstraction, “Music—Pink and Blue No. 1,” and Papanikolas is ready to make it a department feature. Seattle Art Museum’s new curator of American art aims to bring creativity to continuity 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Kore-eda is a smooth enough storyteller that this coincidence doesn’t disrupt the flow too much. Review: In ‘The Third Murder,’ Guilty as Charged Isn’t the Whole Story 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Or it all might just be a nauseating coincidence. Perspective | Asia Argento, and the dangerous fallacy of the perfect victim 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Rob: He created his own mythology with some legitimately mythic events and coincidences; the acetate – it was a miracle that the mastering made it sound as good as it does. Numero Group: the crate-digging record label's top 10 2013-06-13T16:05:50Z It’s probably no coincidence that the same subjects we’re taught to avoid in polite conversation — politics, religion, money — are so irresistible to read about. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Through a long string of amazing coincidences, this book winds up pitting Lacy against the Honorable Claudia McDover, “a Florida gal who just happens to be the most corrupt judge in the history of America.” Review: In John Grisham’s ‘The Whistler,’ a Serious Woman and Serious Crime 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z It might be a coincidence, I thought then, that my grandfather’s name was William. “Is there an afterlife?” Ghost-hunting at my grandmother’s house 2014-02-02T11:59:00Z But it’s no coincidence that the musical is returning during the last year of ’s administration, he added. ‘Bloomberg: The Musical’: He’s Not Calling the Tunes 2013-01-29T23:43:22Z It would be easy to write off the story of “Olio” as a coincidence. Kima Jones, the Founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts, Is Taking the Publishing Industry by Storm 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Even his occasional excesses — there’s some heavy coincidence with Sam’s story line — are well-managed and easily justified. Richard Lange's 'The Smack' is refreshingly realistic L.A. Noir 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z To Mr. Altieri, the twin spikes seem like more than a coincidence. Instagram Turbocharges the Watch Market 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z But what a coincidence that she has in her uniform’s pocket the exact cigarette brand, Pall Mall, that King wanted! | Connecticut: A Review of ‘The Mountaintop,’ at TheaterWorks Hartford 2013-04-27T01:27:27Z In a coincidence not lost on the director, at the same time that Stallworth was infiltrating the Klan, Lee was involved in some anti-fascist action of his own. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z But it’s one of those coincidences that feels like it’s telling us something. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z It's not quite a coincidence, but I'm afraid there is no foundation for this. Attenberg, Dogtooth and the weird wave of Greek cinema 2011-08-26T23:04:02Z It’s no coincidence that in almost every recorded case of koro, the victim already knew of the condition, so was primed to detect it. Is your penis really shrinking? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the 12-minute crescendo at the end of my opera “Dog Days” is a B quarter flat; it’s a homage or reference to that moment. ‘Wozzeck,’ the 20th Century’s Most Influential Opera, Turns 100 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Perhaps not by coincidence a successful local business, called Queen Bee Creations, has a line of items that does just that. Portland, the US capital of alternative cool, takes TV parody in good humour 2012-02-11T16:28:31Z One might also wonder if it is only a coincidence that this new phase is happening at the same time as rising obesity rates. Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that as a fantasy it’s more common among those in control of their day-to-day lives, rather than those who face such acts of sexual violence as an everyday danger. I’m happy, so why do I fantasise about sex abuse? | Mariella Frostrup 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Isaac Robert Hurwitz, executive director and producer of the festival, said the wealth of autobiographical musicals was far greater than in years past, but he chalked that up chiefly to coincidence. Creating a Musical Is the Best Revenge (or Catharsis) 2010-09-26T22:29:00Z “Two Trains Runnin’,” Sam Pollard’s compact, resonant documentary — part essay film, part road picture, part musical anthology — is built around an astonishing historical coincidence. Review: In ‘Two Trains Runnin’,’ the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z In the eyes of many, not a coincidence. 'Levitated Mass,' Doug Pray's rock doc on LACMA's epic boulder 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z It was not by coincidence that the moments you play as her are the most impactful in the game. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Last of Us, Revisited 2013-12-30T16:34:38Z However bizarre the coincidence is, history shows that two similar projects like these can both attract large audiences. Why the world is ready for 2 'Snow Whites' 2011-08-15T18:34:53Z By happy coincidence, two such films are opening here this week—Lawrence Michael Levine’s “Wild Canaries,” which opened on Wednesday, and Andrew T. Betzer’s “Young Bodies Heal Quickly,” which opens today. Two Excellent Independent Films: “Wild Canaries” and “Young Bodies Heal Quickly” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Artist Rachel Mason has turned this strange coincidence into a musical film that tells the stories of two men connected by history and coincidence. Datebook: New works by Mark Bradford, street art temple, the end of men 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z And it’s a very lucky coincidence that I’m in California when Glenn Frey died. Eleanor Friedberger on leaving Brooklyn, approaching 40 and why she’d be happy to sell out: “I don’t think that attitude really exists anymore” 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z By happy coincidence, Paris was also home to the Pasteur Institute, and one of the main labs trying to solve the riddle of one of the most fundamental manifestations of epigenetics – X chromosome inactivation. Edith Heard: 'We can't undo what our parents have given us in terms of our genes' 2013-06-22T23:05:02Z “It’s a coincidence, but yeah, isolation sucks,” he said. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s just a coincidence, in terms of the directors he’s collaborated with thus far or the bleak subjects that he’s been asked to work with, but I’m a huge fan of the Martinez approach. How a Red Hot Chili Pepper Gave Drive Its Pulse 2012-02-01T13:59:49Z My Philodendron just sprouted a new stalk, and that can’t be a coincidence, can it? A new generation of “plant music” blossoms amidst the Millennial-fueled houseplant boom 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The Austrian reveals: “Did you think it was a coincidence that all the women in your life end up dead?” Spectre Fails to Create a Powerful Bond Girl 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z It is no coincidence that these subcultures are mostly professional in nature. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z At first, my friend and I couldn’t believe the coincidence. Perspective | Hearing a Michael Jackson song still feels good. Listening has become too painful. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z It's no coincidence that the people in charge of religion aren't the kindest or most forgiving. Ricky Gervais: 'I've left behind the veil of irony' 2013-02-02T20:00:01Z "I suspect it was no coincidence that so much of the ship was kept here," Holdsworth said. Discover me timbers: experts identify remains of 18th century warship 2012-08-16T16:28:53Z It’s no coincidence that all the craft books on the subject are for screenwriters. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Many of the people at the Hilton read that as more than a coincidence. At the White House correspondents’ dinner, the buzz was reduced to a snore — until Michelle Wolf showed up 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z It “could be a strange coincidence, but I need an explanation.” Fireworks proliferate across U.S., but why is unclear 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z On a show on which even the apples and bananas in the Drapers’ kitchen are deliberately small—because these were the pre-GMO days—it would seem that nothing is a coincidence. What the Fates of Joan and Peggy Say About "Mad Men’s" Stance on Feminism 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z One result of the coincidence was the emergence of a new kind of actress, emoting vividly in a stagy accent acquired somewhere between Bryn Mawr and Broadway. Review: Camp and Compassion in ‘The Confession of Lily Dare’ 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z In his 1960 book Synchronicity, Jung wrote that there is “sometimes quite grotesque coincidence between a man’s name and his peculiarities”. Can our names inspire our choices in life? 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z “It wasn’t a mere coincidence that we had a special election in March of 2007 when there was a general election a few months later.” Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z It’s no coincidence to me that this scene was set in a school classroom, with young students at their most formative and impressionable stage of intellectual, moral, and spiritual development. Fame star Barry Miller remembers Alan Parker: 'He changed my career, almost instantaneously' 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z That such a thaw in relations happens just as one of the pair begins thinking seriously about defecting, is a happy coincidence. The Americans recap: Season one, episode one: Pilot 2013-05-27T23:20:26Z It was, by some unearthly coincidence, also Vladimir Putin’s 64th birthday. Was the 2016 Election a Game of ‘Russian Roulette’? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z And that coincidence reminds us of another intriguing parallel. Intriguing parallels between L.A. Opera's Thais and Blanche DuBois 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z As coincidence would have it, the shows take place less than 100 miles from the last official Clash performance, in 1983 at a festival at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernadino. Clash bandmates to appear live with Gorillaz at Coachella 2010-04-15T09:30:00Z The dimming of the stage lights at that point was, one presumes, an eerie coincidence. Engaging new voice with Kennedy Center Chamber Players 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z “It is purely a coincidence, I think,” Mr. Urushadze said, speaking by phone last weekend from Palm Springs, where both he and Mr. Ovashvili were screening their films at a festival there. A Foreign Film Coincidence, Two Years in a Row 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Mr. Franzen adroitly dovetails these story lines, using large dollops of Dickensian coincidence and multiple plot twists to construct suspense and to entertain. Review: In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Hits a New Octave 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z So that's kind of a weird coincidence that every band on this tour is from Vancouver. | Grimes 2012-10-18T17:03:38Z That many of the competing answers were offered by Jews isn’t a coincidence. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z “That we find ourselves in jail, beaten on the streets, or killed is not the work of accident or coincidence,” Angela would tell us. The Long Road to Angela Davis’s Library 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z So it’s just a weird coincidence that they’re both hitting at the same time? “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z Perhaps it's no coincidence that producers Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green honed their craft on "The Sopranos." "Blue Bloods" a welcome return for Tom Selleck 2010-09-24T06:30:00Z The absurdity of the story in the largely thrill-free thriller “Contraband,” its hairpin twists and outrageous coincidences, may keep even hungry action fans away. | 'Contraband': ?Contraband,? With Mark Wahlberg - Review 2012-01-12T23:08:20Z It seems no coincidence that all three characters are women, as each film makes space for their experiences to be listened to and centered. When the Camera Can’t Turn Away, These Women Force Us to Listen 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z It's a complete coincidence," he says, "but when I took the phone call about Sir Charles, I was listening to one of his recordings. Taking over from Charles Mackerras at the Proms 2010-07-21T20:46:00Z It’s surely only a coincidence that in the year of the diamond jubilee of Elizabeth II, London theaters have come up with a gallery of uneasy heads that wear crowns, portrayed with enlivening diversity. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z Though a spokesperson for Kering said the timing was merely a coincidence, it is a suspicious one. A Statement Ending at Louis Vuitton and Valentino 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z It might not be a coincidence that the show’s title echoes the name of noise-canceling headphones. Review: In ‘Quiet, Comfort,’ a Mattress Becomes the Audience’s Magic Carpet 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Broadway got lucky this year, because it’s probably sheer coincidence that so much exciting new theater has been created this season from old music. Tony Nominations Prove the Musical Has Lost Its Voice 2010-06-11T04:31:00Z And it is no coincidence that the revival of the Klan in the 1920s was in part popularized by the costumed Klansmen portrayed in the blockbuster film "Birth of a Nation." Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Neither was it any coincidence that the band I'd chosen to see on my Apollo debut was UFO. If only a Scotsman had boldly gone… 2013-07-13T23:05:54Z Given the current political conversation in the United States, think that’s a coincidence? In Versace, Michelle Obama Sends a Powerful Message at Her Final State Dinner 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z I last saw him four years ago, completely by chance, by coincidence on a plane to Bermuda. Gene Wilder remembered by Kelly Le Brock 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z After years of examining the first lady, for example, Bennett has concluded that there are no sartorial “coincidences” when it comes to Melania. Perspective | Is Melania Trump sending coded messages, or are we just talking to ourselves? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z By ominous coincidence, its replacement, Neo-Tokyo, is due to host the 2020 Olympics – just like the real city will, assuming it’s still there. From Blade Runner to Rollerball: did cinema's sci-fi dystopias predict the future? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z So there's been a coincidence of desperate crisis and Barack Obama, and the result is that the whole economic system is changing. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z Of all the MCU films, the "Guardians of the Galaxy" series is the one that feels most like the product of an auteur, and that is not a coincidence. MCU: The Franchise of the 2010s 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z It's no coincidence that three of the new comedies are on the ABC network -- the home of long-running series like "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy" that feature women in strong roles. Wimps and wusses? Men flounder in new U.S. TV shows 2011-09-09T13:34:47Z Is it a coincidence that all three have male protagonists who instinctively resist patriarchal brutishness? The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It was, rather, the coincidence that I shared it with a member of society, a friend I’d come to think of in the course of our acquaintance as “the other” Alan Feuer. An Entrance to High Society Courtesy of a Doppelgänger 2014-02-14T20:38:53Z By coincidence, I had just inherited a collection of scores which included six volumes of music that C.P.E. published very late in life, in the 1780s, for “connoisseurs and amateurs.” Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z For now, there is no loud cheering to be heard outside or inside the museum, although, by a nice coincidence, there is a show of contemporary art that comes with a good deal of sound. Censured Delaware Art Museum Plans to Divest More Works 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z It’s perhaps no coincidence that Finn just turned 40 himself, and there’s probably a dash of what-might-have-been in these lyrics. Album review: Craig Finn, 'Clear Heart Full Eyes' 2012-01-20T05:03:00Z We judge a song to be good or bad because of our own systems of taste, but we find a deeper comfort in something because of coincidences of timing. Valerie June’s Music Is a Reminder That Life Goes On 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol features more ghosts than carols, or that the 1963 Andy Williams song It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year promises "scary ghost stories". Why do we love a festive ghost tale? 2013-12-23T16:56:48Z Is it a coincidence that this is becoming true? Onion blooming on TV 2011-01-11T00:34:00Z And maybe it's my TV, but I didn't really see what was going on across the street, and if it's really there, what a coincidence, right? ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 5: Quinn Is Not Your Ideal Babysitter 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z By coincidence, the architect of another key piece of the new WTC was also in the spotlight this week. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-29T14:58:23Z I wonder aloud what could lie behind the coincidence. Isabelle Huppert: 'Men aren't afraid of women the way women are afraid of men' 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z It's no coincidence that the confrontation between the two tech heads takes place in an orchestra pit, and not just any ordinary orchestra pit. 'Steve Jobs' movie: A backstage look at a backstage drama 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Today, Covid is the name of an Arizona maker of audiovisual cables and other equipment; president and chief executive Norm Carson calls it an “odd coincidence” among the pandemic “craziness.” ‘Covid’ is a word most of us dread. But some think it could make a good branding opportunity. 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The whole story feels ruled by a dream logic, filled with coincidences and ghostly echoes. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z TIME: Do you think it’s completely a coincidence that you and your brother both ended up in humanitarian, compassionate roles? Auma Obama on Her Famous Brother, Their Instant Connection and Her New Memoir 2012-05-04T15:23:41Z Its reversals and coincidences seem to arise more from the imperatives of screenwriting than the rhythms and textures of experience. Review: ‘The Lesson’ Is a Test of Conscience and Patience 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z But then either through coincidence or divine intervention, who knows, I become the pivot person who suddenly gets reborn. A Minute With: Bill Pullman about "Torchwood" 2011-07-06T14:23:06Z By coincidence, Williams also performed In Love in Vain at his Sunday gig. Brigitte Beraha/Gareth Williams – review 2012-08-29T14:35:01Z The couple met at a place called Paw Paw Lake, an uncanny coincidence that July discovered only after creating her own Paw-Paw. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z "As I also write in the memoir, I don't believe in magic, but I believe in interpreting coincidence exactly the way you want to." Sherman Alexie, suffering from depression, cancels his post-California book tour 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z In the Irish writer Keith Ridgway’s audaciously offbeat novel “Hawthorn & Child,” two detectives pinball around northeast London trying to impose order on chance and coincidence. A Novel Follows Intersecting Lives on London’s Margins 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Is it a coincidence that this is the time and place where Donald Trump grew up and forged his business career? David Simon: ‘If you’re not consuming porn, you’re still consuming its logic’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z It's not a coincidence that fireworks sound like guns, like bombs, that we set them off on our day of independence, won through guns and bombs. This 4th of July, let’s extinguish fireworks for good 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Other voices are less successful, and the novel too often relies on coincidences to bring the characters together, including, oddly, extreme sexual violation as a defining catalyst in their personal development. Notebooks From an Argentine Master, and Other Works of South American Literature 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z It was just a coincidence that China’s two most important orchestras originally programmed Dvorák’s “New World” symphony. Taiwan Philharmonic comes to America 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z So it’s with no joy that I report that, in a macabre coincidence, a novel pervaded by death has been rendered largely lifeless onstage. Review: Bolaño’s Mysterious ‘2666,’ Distilled to 5½ Hours by the Goodman Theater 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z One of the weirder coincidences of New York Fashion Week is that it starts, almost exactly, on the first day of school in most of the city. Back to School With Thom Browne and Rodarte 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Great publicity for the act, of course– and, by coincidence, for Steamboat Bill Jr 30-odd years later. The silent-era film stars who risked life and limb doing their own film stunts 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z There were so many inconsistencies and too many coincidences that just made one question the disappearance, in a really deep way. Animals, Sex and Guns? Eric Goode Knew ‘Tiger King’ Had Potential 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Related: The Martian and Nasa – a coincidence too good to be true? Ridley Scott: 'I knew there was water on Mars months ago' 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that this $105 luxury item was also the first sex toy to ever be funded on Kickstarter, which bent its own internal rules barring such items from being on the site. How sex toys went from “sleazy” to “empowering” 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z “Nobody wants to talk about any connection between the bands that have been targeted . . . but most of them have been terrible. I’m not so sure that’s a coincidence.” Review | Murder and music coincide in ‘Destroy All Monsters’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z I don’t know if this is a coincidence, but Trump wrote the letter on the same day the F.D.A. confirmed the nation is experiencing a shortage of Adderall. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Takes On the Jan. 6 Committee 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Thursday also happened to be the birthdays of Haydn and — according to one calendar — Bach, yet that celebratory coincidence went unmentioned. Nicholas McGegan and the L.A. Phil offer a performance for the eras in 'From Bach to Schubert' 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z In this online world of speculation and guesswork, substantive clues and mere coincidences tend to carry equal weight, so the filmmakers end up with an awful lot of threads to follow. Review: ‘The Killing Season’ Examines Long Island Case 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z There is more than coincidence, surely, in the way we seem to invest more and more resources in marriages that are less and less likely to survive. The con behind every wedding 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Although investigators reportedly found a Batman mask inside Holmes' booby-trapped apartment, any connection to the storied comic character could be simple coincidence. Colo. massacre casts ugly scar on Batman mythology 2012-07-26T19:57:08Z The two murders could have been a “coincidence,” Stoltz said in an interview on Tuesday. The murder the New Yorker never mentioned 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s surely no coincidence that this was the main reference point for Mr. Pelt’s set. 2010-01-30T05:30:00Z The music absolutely possessed her, and it was no coincidence that it provided her most famous early role. Galina Vishnevskaya obituary 2012-12-11T18:32:40Z It's no coincidence that a few weeks after ditching social media, I walked out my Catholic church in the middle of a mass and never looked back. Life after social media: What I discovered after deleting all of my accounts 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Is this just a coincidence or something more?” “This has gotta be racist, right?”: Larry Wilmore’s brilliant new feature eviscerates Alabama voter suppression 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z It went back and forth four times until they met, by coincidence, at a football game. Who Elected Me Mayor on Foursquare? I Did 2010-08-19T00:13:00Z Still, his moderators approved the post on Ms. Paltrow, who — coincidence or not — announced her “conscious uncoupling” from Mr. Martin a few weeks later. In Hollywood, Apps Like Whisper Dish Dirt 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Don DeLillo, in “Libra,” wrote, “A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn’t already, and make a million.” ‘The Premonitions Bureau’ Recounts Crowdsourcing the Supernatural 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z There are telltale Lindelofian touches throughout, including animal metaphors, miraculous acts of coincidence and a pernicious reluctance in characters to explain themselves in a coherent way to other characters. ‘The Leftovers’: A biblical event leaves a sorrowful mystery “It’s too close to be a coincidence.’’Weis explained that the left and right hands shown in the artwork are the same. Meeting planned with experts about sticker 2012-02-08T18:03:00Z By coincidence they arranged for the meeting to take place in a famous chicken restaurant. Nick Park and Jane Horrocks: how we made Chicken Run 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z When asked if the class was related to the honorary doctorate, Mr. Beckman wrote, “There’s no connection, as far as I know; it’s a coincidence.” Hottest Ticket in Town? Taylor Swift, Class of ’22. 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z “It was a weird coincidence. I loved Drake’s original when he put it out, and immediately after I heard it I went to the studio and flipped everything,” Perez recalled over a recent lunch. Pia Mia: 'I'm here to speak for what's really going on for teenagers' 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z For an extra publicity boost, Rob Lowe, who had been seated in the front row for the Cannes premiere, had his own sex tape scandal revealed that week — a coincidence tabloids couldn’t resist. A Film Career Built on Videotape (Sex and Lies, Too) 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z If that’s true, we have a bunch of coincidences for you this week. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z “It’s just strange coincidence, synchronicity — that sometimes happens in life,” he said. Early van Gogh Painting Stolen From Dutch Museum 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Despite the geographic and temperamental distance between them, this congruity is more than coincidence. art: Comparing Caravaggio and Frans Hals 2011-11-04T22:38:53Z It would have been big news, save for one bizarre coincidence — it began the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. D.C.’s last serial killer: The Princeton Place murders, 20 years later This type of coincidence is not unfamiliar territory for DC, even though its stories are created months in advance. ArtsBeat: DC Postpones Release of 'Batman' Comic 2012-07-25T18:27:11Z It’s just a happy coincidence that the show is arriving at a time when post-punk music is finally in the limelight. In the ’80s, Post-Punk Filled New York Clubs. Their Videos Captured It. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps it was only a coincidence that Mr. Buttigieg’s event was next door to the New England Ski Museum. It’s Primary Season in New Hampshire. Time to Go Skiing! 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z An observation that in itself revealed how closely attuned he was to the traditional theater and costume of politics, in case anyone was wondering if all of this happened by coincidence. John Fetterman and the Remaking of Political Image 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Adapted from David Goodis’s novel, “Dark Passage” is a movie of strange coincidences and occult connections. 1940s Dispatches From the Land of Wynken, Blynken and Noir 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Good issues for therapy all, by no coincidence — especially the last. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You always hurt the one you’re in an unhealthy relationship with 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Dushku said that she then broke ribs in a stunt that went awry, calling it “no small coincidence”. Eliza Dushku claims True Lies crew member sexually assaulted her aged 12 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence Rise of the Planet of the Apes was written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, who wrote Jurassic World and are writing the Avatar sequels. Jurassic World and Ted 2: an evolutionary leap for animal rights? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Mertens ended up at Willamette despite better offers elsewhere. Football player’s coming-out story disproves every dumb theory about gay athletes 2014-02-01T13:00:00Z Though Pinter denied that the play was autobiographical, it's no coincidence that he broke off contact with his son Daniel around the time it was written – a mutual decision but no less painful for that. Harold Pinter's Moonlight at the Donmar 2011-04-01T10:54:25Z But I swear it’s just a coincidence that six of the nine books we recommend this week are by our esteemed peers at other outlets. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Personally, I don’t think this is a coincidence. Metrosexual, hipster, spornosexual: Why do we keep redefining men? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z She added: "Mr Cohen merely reassures us that it was not deliberate. We are not prepared to accept this as a full and adequate response to this supposed 'coincidence'." Argentina protests over Top Gear 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Photograph: Alamy It seems that coincidence is going to be a theme of the Not the Booker prize. Not the Booker prize: Advice for Strays 2010-09-27T12:49:00Z No plot summary can possibly do this episodic tale of unlikely coincidences and sudden reversals justice. Pick of the week: Rapturous 19th-century soap "Mysteries of Lisbon" 2011-08-05T01:01:00Z It’s no coincidence that Leviathan, the sperm whale, is Melville’s chosen vehicle. Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z “Any resemblance to anything real is, therefore, not due to coincidence,” it adds. The Rarely Seen Ingmar Bergman Thriller That Bergman Himself Rejected 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Is it mere coincidence or the beginning of a trend? Review | Obama and Biden are the ultimate crime-fighting team in ‘Hope Never Dies’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z But the actors are so relaxed and personable that the film’s occasional glibness — and its over-reliance on coincidence to further the cross-pollinating narrative — is easy to let slide. Movie Review: ‘The Happy Sad,’ Based on Ken Urban’s Play 2013-08-15T23:40:38Z The game’s jumbled storylines are no coincidence, either. 10 Films We See in the Grand Theft Auto Games 2013-09-24T22:17:56Z It’s no coincidence that much of this story takes place in the American desert, a territory that burns away ornament and affectation. Review | Claire Vaye Watkins’s new novel approaches motherhood — with a torch 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z If Baelish sounds more than a little like Thomas Cromwell, then perhaps that is not entirely a coincidence. 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' 2013-03-24T19:00:01Z It is no coincidence that this complexly patterned sequence should begin and end with stories – "Two Sisters" and "The Dead" – that have interchangeable titles. A brief survey of the short story 2011-03-09T09:41:46Z By complete coincidence, after the film was completed Nicholson found out that the woman he had always called his “sister” was in fact his biological mother. It’s ‘Chinatown,’ Jake. On Second Thought, Don’t Forget It. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The reason for the dinner is a celebration of a new real estate deal — not a coincidence. “Beatriz at Dinner” brings politics to the table, with no manners and ample humor 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z But it’s no coincidence I was the only actor not to make any money from it. Rosanna Arquette: ‘I’ve got a reputation as a trouble maker’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z He kept talking about the past, about coincidences, about water, war and peace. Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright 2013-03-20T13:00:02Z Or perhaps I am stretching coincidence into meaning. My life needs a purpose 2013-01-30T01:00:00Z And they were obviously very separate – they were months apart – and it was just a coincidence. Elisabeth Moss: My Cats Have Their Own IMDB Pages 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s probably not a coincidence that, after escaping to college, I fell in love with a boy who loved Bowie even more than I did: ‘ ‘Heroes’ ’ was the soundtrack of our first year together. ‘Thank You, Mr. Bowie. You Changed Our Lives.’ 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z And so, finally, is the story, an old-fashioned concatenation of coincidences, collisions and foolproof plans gone horribly awry. ‘Ambulance’ Review: Michael Bay Is Our Emergency Movie Technician 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z And what about the strange coincidence that Shutter Island apparently houses the firebug who caused Dolores’s death? Movie Review | 'Shutter Island': All at Sea, Surrounded by Red Herrings 2010-02-18T15:49:00Z After checking with the studio, the paper was able to inform the correspondent that it was sheer coincidence. Authors in search of a character: when playwrights stage themselves 2013-02-11T16:09:45Z Though the timing of their trip was pure coincidence, it felt fated, and Sorokin is wary of returning to Russia as long as Putin remains in power. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z By coincidence I saw “Seminar” on Broadway the night after I saw “Poetic License” at 59E59 Theaters. Theater Review: ?Poetic License,? by Jack Canfora, at 59E59 Theaters 2012-02-20T23:15:11Z Any one of even the most dramatic incidents that I cite in the book could be explained as coincidence. William Peter Blatty talks literature, life after death and lousy movies 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z And so I do not believe the vogue for Picasso is coincidence, or just a fashion. Why Picasso has his finger on the 21st century's pulse 2011-03-08T15:30:01Z By coincidence, she found his Twitter account on his birthday, which was also her older brother’s birthday. Bonzie Longs for a Post-Pandemic ‘Reincarnation’ 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The coincidence of these two matches cleaves the story into not-quite parallel parts that eventually meet again. ‘The Devil All the Time’ Review: Down-Home Livin’ and Dyin’ 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Well, maybe it's 'just' a coincidence but it's doubtless the cited cities are specifically to appeal for a determined audience, the American one... With the Olympics Over, Six Former Host Cities Worth Visiting 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z A lady like that in the driver’s seat of your organization just as you’re distancing yourself from Planned Parenthood looks like a whole more than a coincidence. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z There has to be something in this, no coincidence. Killing Joke: 'We've lost all our friends. We're the only ones we've got left' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-27T13:38:11Z Is it a coincidence that these films achieved a release in the era of regime change, CNN and Call of Duty? Why are we so obsessed with films about the second world war? 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It is merely a coincidence, however, that Seattle’s Zombie Run is at Magnuson Park, which received media attention this spring for traces of radiation. Zombies to infest Magnuson Park in 5K 2013-08-09T19:55:13Z By happy coincidence, he's picked questions that allow him to cover ground familiar to readers of his memoirs. Stephen Fry Live: Royal Albert Hall 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z “Fargo” braids entire seasons out of sundry themes that come together into a multifaceted entropic tales of homicide, coincidence and destiny. In “Fargo,” the fight for truth and justice is a woman’s game 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z “It’s no coincidence that this British woman had to come and see and recognize and be fascinated with everything that for us Mexicans was just our Mexican food,” Jinich said. Documentary focuses on unlikely champion of Mexican cuisine 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z "If that was a coincidence, it was an extremely fortuitous one," another PR veteran snarked. Facebook founder survives "Social Network" so far 2010-10-01T07:23:00Z The coincidence of two theater companies celebrating expansions on the same day - in addition to The Public Theater's $40 million revitalization party on Thursday - seems to show the health of the city's off-Broadway community. 2 theater companies cheer as they open new stages 2012-10-02T03:01:04Z "It wasn't intentional," Usher says when asked about the coincidence. Post-divorce Usher returns with new attitude 2010-03-29T01:46:00Z “My Spalding would have loved this whole weird series of coincidences,” she said. ‘Spalding Gray,’ the Color? It’s a Long Story 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Published less than a month before the Dolezal news broke, Ms. Zink’s novel has generated jokes claiming it’s more than a remarkable coincidence. Reading About Racial Boundaries 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z So it is no coincidence that some of the world’s most compelling works of art are weddings of female and painterly beauty. Perfect Poise, Pulled From Jaws of Distortion 2010-12-30T22:46:46Z “Twelfth Night” invites such an approach because it never pretends to be anything but improbable, with coincidences and altered and mistaken identities in ample supply. Theater Review: Within ‘Twelfth Night,’ a Delirious One-Man Show 2014-02-16T21:19:31Z It was next to a busy lorry park – which was no coincidence – and lots of people were milling about. David Emery's best photograph: an Andalucian brothel 2013-05-15T16:26:52Z Each year, within that smaller field lies another interesting set of numbers, and in looking at the 40 winners of the last 8 years, other coincidences, trends and patterns emerge. ArtsBeat Blog: The 10 Best Books of 2011 2011-11-30T15:00:37Z By coincidence, it was the 25th anniversary — to the night — of the “Crazy for You” debut on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre. Five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman to revive 'Crazy for You' in L.A. 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z In Domet’s charming debut novel, four girls named Guinevere are bound together by coincidence at the Sisters of the Supreme Adoration convent. More fine fall fiction 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The similarities to Tinder are not by coincidence. A Tinder for Modern-Day Yentas 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z It’s probably not a coincidence that these mechanisms of biological self-discovery are on the rise now, amid seething tensions over racism, immigration and what constitutes a “real American.” The Racial Spectacle of DNA Test Result Videos 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z The coincidence of the decline of aesthetics in politics is that much of "beautiful Britain" is guarded by sophisticated legislation and generous subsidies. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z “It was such a lucky coincidence of timing for both of us,” she said. How Do You Write an Anthony Bourdain Book Without Anthony Bourdain? 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z By coincidence, the two crossed paths at a party and poetry reading in Brooklyn days later. An iMessage Almost Cost Them an ‘I Do’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z By coincidence, James’s next upcoming starring role is also playing an iconic character — with a twist. Lily James had dyed her hair. Later, the rising star landed the lead in ‘Cinderella.’ 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z In what Charlie Wright, the chairman of SAM's board of trustees, calls a "happy coincidence," Manchanda moved with her family to Seattle last summer, so she is "already somewhat familiar with the art community here." Seattle Art Museum names new curator of modern and contemporary art 2011-06-29T23:22:04Z But then it takes a left turn into Shakespeare territory: hectic with coincidences, long-lost kinsmen, shifting identities and magical transformations. The Yips by Nicola Barker - review 2012-07-18T07:00:03Z It can’t be a coincidence that the show started shortly after New Hollywood took flight in the 1960s. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Columbo’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Isn't it a fortunate coincidence that the biggest ambition of every single person on Surprise Surprise is to have a brief, insincere face-to-face meeting with a minor celebrity who has a product to promote? The X Factor live blog: sixth results show 2012-11-11T19:36:27Z It’s no coincidence that one of the most provocative American takes on Sept. 11 has been Art Spiegelman’s. Review: ‘Persepolis,’ by Marjane Satrapi 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z USA commissioned “The Space Between” as part of a public-service campaign against discrimination, and the story is weighed down by the forced coincidences and piped epiphanies of an after-school special. The TV Watch: 9/11?s Pain Through the Prism of TV 2011-09-08T14:12:24Z The timing of the film’s release, just three months before the general election, is no coincidence. A new film goes inside the war on civil rights, and this time ACLU lawyers are the stars 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But when it comes to the sluggish, reactionary and massively over-thought process of making Hollywood movies, I don’t believe in coincidence. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z It can’t be coincidence that two of the most essential series in modern television, The Wire and Breaking Bad, were panoramas of the drug trade as viewed by the dealers. Beautiful boys acting ugly: why cinema can't kick its drug habit 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” has its share of weak jokes: “By an odd coincidence, I was born on my birthday.” Nudge Nudge: New Books by Eric Idle and John Cleese 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Is it a coincidence or part of a design vision? Are Les Docks the Next Cool Thing? 2012-06-04T11:30:24Z It’s no coincidence that none of them were mature adults. We are old and in love, but she left me after my cancer diagnosis | Dear Mariella 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z The death of pop icon Prince was seized upon by his fans as an eerie coincidence in their replies to the tweet by Canadian travel site Canoe Travel. Niagara Falls Turned Purple on the Day Prince Died 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z This is not exactly a coincidence, the narrator admits: “It is possible that the building’s name evoked the closeness of my ties to my husband and that I impulsively yielded to that sensation.” A 1970s Japanese Novel Leading the Way to Ferrante 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Movie romances are not supposed to follow the strict conventions of realism, and Ms. Prince-Bythewood’s script contrives enough twists, coincidences and tearful confrontations to produce the necessary gasps, giggles and sniffles. ‘Beyond the Lights,’ a Diva’s Romance 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z It could be a coincidence, but if so, it is a telling one. At Nike, Extending the Track to the Runway 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Her latest posits two "birthday sisters," Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson, who are united not by blood but by coincidence: Both were born in the same rural New Hampshire hospital on July 4, 1950. Novelists Beverly Jensen and Joyce Maynard write about sisters 2010-08-25T23:20:00Z Are the trends that Luce notices in Hazelton-on-Hudson due to toxic pollution and climate change, or are they pure coincidence? Joyce Carol Oates on Catastrophizing and Environmental Collapse 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z It's no mere coincidence then that the villain in Cruise's latest movie, "Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One," is, of all things, AI. Tom Cruise, our messy messiah of movies 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z The film was, as they say, in transition, which on this occasion meant that it was in need of a new director; by happy coincidence, Haynes was in a similar state of interregnum. Todd Haynes: ‘She said, there’s a frock film coming up, with Cate attached … It sounded right up my alley’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z One could struggle to make that coincidence seem significant, but perhaps it speaks for itself. Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z So it was no coincidence, when my first novel was published a few years later, that it was set on the last day of summer. My hero: Jarvis Cocker by Jon McGregor 2012-02-10T22:55:15Z Maybe it’s not such a coincidence that both of these companies are in the Boston area, a place where the weather often isn’t conducive to outdoor exercise. Tired of biking in the gym? Virtual reality lets you cycle in Iceland, instead. 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Well, it’s hardly a bloody coincidence, is it? Sesame Street's new Muppet takes on the Taliban (and the trolls) 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z When she went to a bookstore to buy one of G.M.’s books, she discovered “another unsettling coincidence”: The first sentence of the book contained her exact date of birth. ‘Consent,’ a Memoir That Shook France, Recalls Living a ‘Perverse Nightmare’ 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z But spotting a few cool coincidences is not the same as fully appreciating a show as rich with meaning as Russian Doll. Stuck on repeat: what is Netflix’s Russian Doll actually about? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z We ate at La Bourse this evening by coincidence. Daniel Rose, an American in Paris, Comes Home to Cook 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z In a turn of bittersweet coincidence, Wolf also happens to be a fellow Emmy contender in the Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special category for her HBO special “Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady.” No more Jimmys on late night: Why we need more women comedians hosting now 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Safiya and Mr. Williams insist that this was a coincidence. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z By total coincidence, this week we present the results of our contest for limericks featuring words beginning “gl-” through “go-” — which included Jesse’s use of “GOAT” in its new, acronymic sense. Style Invitational Week 1296: A, we’re adorbs — a poetry contest 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Must be a coincidence that the remedy in question tastes like a delicious energy drink. This week's new tracks 2012-06-01T23:06:02Z The young stud gets away from him, boarding a train to Cologne, but they meet again through a series of eerie coincidences. The surprising sexual fluidity of “Elle”: Paul Verhoeven’s latest shows he’s come a long way since “Basic Instinct” 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the tensions between past and present — between fathers and sons, between the backward pull of family history and the forward drive of ambition — are among the film’s main concerns. ‘Creed II’ Review: A Poignant Boxing Movie Blends Old and New 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z It's a crime story filled with shootouts and sudden death, and as such it relies heavily on coincidence and contrivance. In fast-paced 'Run All Night,' Liam Neeson and Ed Harris shine 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Begin Again, which is likely to be his biggest film since Once, starts with a premise that sounds like it could have come out of his own life. Begin Again and Once Share More Than a Filmmaker 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z I was compelled by a version of life that was packed with crushes, secrets, stand-offs, coincidences and moral dilemmas. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z Is it a coincidence that after the standout success of "Squid Game" and "Parasite" so many U.S. shows would portray the same message? From "Parasite" to "Squid Game," America of course exploited South Korea's anti-capitalist content 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z By coincidence, his was published just hours after his death, from colon cancer, on 3 January, 2000. Charlie Brown heads for cinemas 2012-10-10T11:24:30Z January finds a striking coincidence between two promising music experiences in Seattle. Sister acts: Musical siblings share the spotlight at Seattle Opera, Meany Theater 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z I don’t think it’s any kind of coincidence that it ends with him teaching humanities at a high school. The ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Showrunners on ‘Redefining the Story of Losers’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z McGarry, who managed Wolves until 1976, was a strict disciplinarian, and it is probably no coincidence that the small trail connecting Dougan to psychedelia disappears shortly after he joined the club. Psychedelic footballer ? the secret life of Derek Dougan 2011-03-31T23:01:00Z He chuckles at the burlesque of coincidence: Glass recently completed jury duty on an injury case involving a worker who fell from a scaffold. 'This American Life' host Ira Glass brings his radio stories to Seattle 2010-08-19T23:44:00Z It’s not a coincidence that those songs show up on the record’s first half, which is uniformly more upbeat and likely to be the pool from which future singles are drawn. Pop Goes Katy Perry: PRISM Promises Hits 2013-10-22T14:08:45Z Tom Stoppard’s play, a drama of conscience, consciousness and coincidence, reaches its conclusion. 7 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Oxford and the world are inseparable; scores of prime ministers up to and including Thatcher, against Cambridge's lonely Walpole and Pitt cannot be a coincidence. Stephen Fry recalls his student days for West End play: From the archive, 2 April 1988 2013-04-02T06:00:00Z The dream I was having, its connection to that precise location, was clearly just a coincidence as well. “The power of Christ compels you!”: When our house became possessed by spirits 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z “Whether it’s providential, coincidence, or meant to be, the fact is what’s happening on Broadway is so diverse it’s almost utopian,” the Tony winner said. The revolution is bigger than “Hamilton”: This year’s Tony nods offer much-needed contrast to #OscarsSoWhite 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the metaphors we use for a backlash tend to be come from climactic phenomenon — an opening of the floodgates, a turning of the tide, when it rains it pours. The inevitable Taylor Swift backlash begins: Watching the critical mad love crumble, right on schedule 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The timing wasn't a complete coincidence: I was 30, and something about the sheer animal contentment of motherhood made me realise, with mild panic, that I would now probably never write. Maggie O'Farrell, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Julie Myerson on working around parenthood 2010-08-01T20:45:00Z By coincidence or not, some children were nearby, playing a witchcraft game in which they cast murderous spells. Books of The Times: ‘The Invisible Code’ by Christopher Fowler 2013-12-18T21:56:32Z I crawled down below, mystified by the coincidence, the timing, the magic of maritime life. Everything Is Different on an Island 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z They also depend on chance and coincidence to a degree that would make Dickens blush – except that Newman shows no shame. The Trade Secret by Robert Newman – review 2013-06-07T17:35:01Z Introduced to a black family whose name is Black, he will remark on the coincidence: "That's like if my last name was Jew – Larry Jew." Larry David: 'I'm cranky' 2010-06-25T23:02:00Z The timing was a coincidence, Ali said today. Diana, Princess of Wales inspires Monica Ali's latest novel 2011-01-05T20:48:55Z As it happens the character is also named Vanda: eerie coincidence or a calculated put-on? | 'Venus in Fur': ?Venus in Fur,? by David Ives, With Nina Arianda - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z By powerful coincidence, such questions of leadership—important within the kingdom of Grime—also happen to be preoccupying the nation as a whole. Stormzy at Glastonbury: King Michael Wears His Crown 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z That was the most extraordinary coincidence, wasn’t it? Roger Moore on Why Daniel Craig Is the Best James Bond Ever and What 007 Role He’s Dying to Play 2012-11-09T13:00:14Z It’s no coincidence that the hugely popular television series is named after the house: “Downton Abbey” is filled with cliffhangers centered on the family’s maneuvering to keep the cash-strapped property afloat. In England, a trio of stately homes illuminates a bygone age 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “The Court,” with its case-of-the-week structure and focus on the lawyers’ personal lives, feels very early 21st-century American, and maybe it’s not a coincidence that the name of Logi’s new firm is Law & Order. Streaming This Week, a Short History of Scandinavian TV 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z That a movie starring Ms. Larson spurred Rotten Tomatoes into taking a bolder step was no coincidence. When ‘Captain Marvel’ Became a Target, the Rules Changed 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z "Oh, the invisible webs of the cosmos," exclaims Percy, noting just how large a role "coincidence" plays in the story he's become part of. 'The Widower's Tale': novelist Julia Glass' sprawling saga of a very extended family 2010-09-16T22:20:00Z But by a strange coincidence, right after the trailer pitching Green Lantern, the theatre aired a preview for . Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z In a complete coincidence, this new wave of YouTuber boxing has coincided with my own fighting journey. KSI v Logan Paul: was the YouTubers' fight more than just hype? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The coincidence of a Valentine’s Day Thursday leading into the Presidents’ Day Monday gave Willis, 57, a five-day frame to prove that an R-rated action picture starring a veteran muscleman can still find an audience. Die Hard Has a Pretty Good Day on Presidents’ Weekend 2013-02-18T23:09:40Z How unexpected: Despite our efforts to map the location of the hotel where our fathers stayed and favorite restaurants and squares, we ended up finding the sites through complete coincidence. Following in their fathers’ footsteps to Venice 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Falcone and Borsellino were murdered within weeks of that ruling – they had proved the mafia existed and the mafia reacted by killing them. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z There was the new-age spirituality and recovery-movement jargon -- "little by little, we started to release the shame" -- blended with more traditional Christian bromides: "There are no coincidences, only the divine order of God." Oprah's finale a 'love letter' to fans 2011-05-25T19:22:00Z The main characters keep bumping into each other, but these encounters are not exactly coincidences. John Mullan on NW – Guardian book club 2013-07-27T07:00:03Z I hope it's a coincidence that "Bumblebee" is both the best reviewed "Transformers" movie and the one with the weakest opening at the box office of the entire series. Top 10 blockbuster movies of 2018: Ranking the year's major action films and franchise behemoths 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z “The identical and/or striking similarity of ‘Sorry’ to Plaintiff’s song ‘Ring the Bell’ surpasses the realm of generic coincidence and independent creation,” the legal complaint, which was obtained by EW, reads. Justin Bieber and Skrillex Have Been Sued Over 'Sorry' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Karen’s male counterpart, Ken, never really caught on. My Name Is Karen. What Can I Do About the Meme? 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z “There are no coincidences,” Musk added by way of commentary. Perspective | Elon Musk is a boy’s idea of a rich man 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z That coincidence sent me immediately to my vinyl reissue of “Speak No Evil,” which Mr. Shorter recorded in 1964. How Rudy Van Gelder Shaped the Sound of Jazz as We Know It 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Is it the global doom seeping into fiction, or just a coincidence? The return of Sherlock: ‘Being a hero isn’t about being bigger, richer, more powerful' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Reading the bleak, provocative book, one might sense that it was written in a hurry; the plot is cluttered with a few too many secondary characters and narrative coincidences. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z What if, by some strange coincidence, this was real? Immersive theatre: take us to the edge, but don't throw us in 2010-04-07T15:28:00Z It's no coincidence that director Maas is married to Light in the Attic honcho Matt Sullivan. 'Wheedle's Groove' documentary captures the soul of Seattle 2010-09-02T20:06:00Z It’s probably no coincidence that the musical numbers arising from these detours fall flat. Review: On the Road With Mom in ‘Miss You Like Hell’ 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z This fact was reported in a few outlets, but the two writers say that their choice of name was purely a coincidence. They cooked up a play about the only man to win the Pillsbury Bake-Off. But they didn’t tell him. 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Is it a coincidence that you became a vegan and stopped being funny at the same time? Sara Polon started her soup business with her mother. Now it’s overflowing. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z So even if it was a coincidence that the tension between past and present informed all three plays I saw during my visit, it was a telling one. In a City of Monuments, History Lives Onstage and in the Streets 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z He reminds me a little of Fred Astaire, and it’s probably no coincidence that Fred Astaire originally introduced a lot of these Gershwin songs.” Arts & Leisure: Matthew Broderick in ?Nice Work if You Can Get It? 2012-04-05T15:10:22Z Given the timelines of publishing, it is certain that the emergence of these — not identical, but let’s say fraternal-twin — stories within months of each other is pure coincidence. In ‘Last Resort,’ a Writer Turns a Friend’s Story Into a Smash Success 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Officially, the lawyers are not supposed to have any conflicts of interest, but in one of those nominal coincidences for which movies were made, they’re former lovers. Movie Review: ‘Closed Circuit’ Features 2 Lawyers and a Terrorism Case 2013-08-27T21:36:54Z It’s not a coincidence that both “Intimate Apparel” and “Finzi-Continis” are set in the past, because most of Gordon’s work is. One Opera Opening Would Make Any Composer Happy. He Has Two. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z By a complete coincidence, I've been trying to build a hotel out of shampoo bottles. Gruff Rhys: 'I've been trying to build a hotel out of shampoo bottles' 2011-02-06T00:06:04Z It isn’t luck, pluck or happy coincidence that propels Balram from his ragged beginnings to sleek triumph, but cunning, desperation and a coldbloodedness that can masquerade as servility. ‘The White Tiger’ Review: Don’t Call Him a Slumdog 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Jung gave to what we call "meaningful coincidence." Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “Why is this the place where the world capital of cinema blossomed? It’s not a coincidence that many of the founders are predominantly Jewish. It’s a specifically Jewish story and a specifically Jewish immigrant story.” After Criticism, Film Museum Will Highlight Hollywood’s Jewish History 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z And though both actors deliver performances more credible than the plot that frames them, their authenticity only highlights the script’s affection for improbable coincidences and an ending even Garry Marshall might consider too pat. Movie Review: ‘Least Among Saints,’ Directed by Martin Papazian‘ 2012-10-12T00:39:41Z It’s not a coincidence that “Feels Like Vegas” sounds like a Weeknd outtake, and it’s not a surprise that “2 On” got further gasoline when Drake released his own version of the song. Tinashe’s ‘Aquarius,’ an R&B Slink 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z That she and I share a last name is no coincidence: we married in 1969, after meeting at MoMA, where for a time I was her intern in the Film Stills Archive. Mary and MoMa: The Case of the (Still) Missing Film Stills 2012-01-11T19:14:15Z It’s not a coincidence that this is the first time in a five- or six-year movie career Robbie has played the lead. Margot Robbie: ‘I asked my girlfriends what they'd been through. And they were angry’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z “There is nothing to indicate anything beyond coincidence in the numbers,” a police source told the newspaper. Brooklyn killings may have been hate crimes 2012-11-23T13:00:00Z It is no coincidence that "Orfeo" and the vespers open with the same brass fanfare. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Nothing political, provocative, or argumentative breaches his walls, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that little fun does, either. What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Along the way, Ms. Cholodenko somehow blends the anarchic energy of farce — fueled by coincidences and reversals, collisions and misunderstandings — with a novelistic sensitivity to the almost invisible threads that bind and entangle people. | 'The Kids Are All Right': Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and the Sperm Donor 2010-07-08T22:10:00Z Grisel describes her own transformation from addict to sober scientist as a collection of coincidences and luck. The science of addiction: a personal struggle to kick cocaine gives a neuroscientist unique insights 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z The juxtaposition of the two buildings is no coincidence. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z Mac’s true identity, for instance, involves a preposterous coincidence. Review: ‘Broadway Bounty Hunter’ Stars Annie Golden as Herself 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z In an odd coincidence, later testimony cemented the number of bystanders to Bulger’s kidnapping at 38. Why we still look away: Kitty Genovese, Jamie Bulger and the bystander effect 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z The forked tongue and the scales are just a coincidence. Downton Abbey: why did America fall so hard for the show? 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z So this was an explicit response, not just a historic coincidence, to make these perfect forms. Tate Britain: On the move 2013-05-03T18:40:01Z It is no coincidence that these two features are central to Paul Ryan’s premium support plan for Medicare reform which passed the House this year. George W. Bush, Health Reformer: Flat Medicare Drug Premiums Show That Choice and Competition Work 2011-08-05T18:51:03Z Adding, with a mischievous smile: “It wasn’t a coincidence that it was a ‘69.” Abraham Cruzvillegas' buoyant assemblages toy with cars, sex and the culture of waste 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “I think funnily enough it was a coincidence we were in a similar headspace,” Parker, who usually works alone, said. Tame Impala Gets Funky on New Album 'Currents' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z How literature didn’t save David Foster Wallace’s life It’s hardly a coincidence that “Shipping Out,” Wallace’s most well-known essay, appeared only a month before Infinite Jest, his most well-known novel, was published. David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z The matching S.U.V.s were probably nothing but a coincidence. ‘You Should Break Up With Me’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z By happy coincidence — though it might be a cultural trend of profound significance — we are in a season full of movies about musical mentors. ‘Keep On Keepin’ On,’ a Film on the Jazz Great Clark Terry 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z By coincidence or design, the ceremony played to the moviegoing majority. Oscars: 'King's Speech' Reigns Supreme with Four Awards 2011-03-22T07:10:00Z A late-night robbery at Marv’s place sets in motion the kind of plot in which odd coincidences and apparently random events coalesce into a slightly too tidy package. ‘The Drop’ Unfolds in a Brooklyn Underworld 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Brian Oxley pointed out the odd coincidence that a few miles from Bon Aqua are the remains of the Ruskin Colony, a short-lived utopian socialist community founded in the 1890s and based on Ruskin’s writings. A Renewed Spotlight on Two Women Artists 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In the movie, an evil CIA assassin is killed with a falling air conditioning unit, which Bay said was just a coincidence. Transformers raid Hong Kong in 'Age of Extinction' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z It’s not a coincidence that, in the middle of his “TMZ” performance, he announced, “This is the most confident I’ve been since my mom passed.” The Battle for Kanye West Is Happening in Real Time 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z “It is not a coincidence that this happened now,” Andrew Solomon, a former PEN president, said. Writers Gather to Read Salman Rushdie and Support Free Speech 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that one character mentions Italo Calvino’s masterpiece “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” with its intoxicating tag-team narration. ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z In his first feature directorial debut, The Water Diviner, Crowe proves that this is no coincidence: Indeed, his interests are deeply circumscribed. Russell Crowe's 'The Water Diviner' Falls Short 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z It is not a coincidence that that this sound bore the closest resemblance to the qualities of the human voice. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z All of Ms. Lippmann's shades are named after songs, and, by coincidence, so are the four leading ladies of "Girls." On the Runway Blog: File This Away: HBO's "Girls" Get Nail Polish 2013-01-07T21:59:56Z I’m curious to know if she thinks it a coincidence that she found exemplary practice in a medical setting where staff knew they could do nothing to save lives. Panic, chronic anxiety and burnout: doctors at breaking point 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z More than a billion people live in countries at risk of the disease which, by no coincidence, are some of the poorest countries on earth. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that Bill Budge, creator of Pinball Construction Set, is scheduled to receive only the second Pioneer Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences next month. Video Game Review: Allowing Players to Assume the Ultimate Role: Game Creators 2011-01-28T23:48:47Z For both musicians and Twitch executives, it is no coincidence that such an artist-friendly system was developed far from the reach of the music industry. Can Streaming Pay? Musicians Are Pinning Fresh Hopes on Twitch. 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The Movie” both contain peaceable-kingdom ensembles in which all the dancers seem to do their own things until patterns, coincidences and harmonies appear: the combination of independence and cooperation becomes a perfect image of democracy. It Was a Happy Month, Mostly, for Modernists 2011-04-01T21:14:26Z It may not be a coincidence, either, that most of these plays offer portraits of families — either actual blood connections or more informal groups — struggling to stay together or to keep from falling apart. Amy Herzog and Others Bring New Voices to Stage 2012-06-07T16:47:59Z This is no coincidence: Scarlet, the magazine around which the series revolves, is a fictional stand-in for Cosmopolitan, where series executive producer Joanna Coles once served as editor-in-chief. “The Bold Type,” “Dietland” and fashion: The feminist army is assembling (literally) in t... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The tale’s resolution relies heavily on coincidences, a few of which strain even a seasoned suspense reader’s credulity. Review | In her new novel, Rene Denfeld draws on her experience as a homeless teen 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Their brief stories are laced with magic realism, uncanny coincidences, metaphors taken literally and idioms come to life. Balancing sweet and tart, it's an 'Almost' happy holiday 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z About the few such cases in which guilty verdicts were handed down, Lamb notes acidly, “It surely cannot be a coincidence” that the judges were women. The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z It's surely no coincidence that two of the writers – Harris and Swift – are academics, whose books come out of their research. First book award shows appetite for serious reading 2010-12-01T20:00:00Z This wasn’t a coincidence, but in fact a highly calculated move. Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The major turning points in the series hinge on familial lies, odd coincidence and decisions that are the stuff of midlife crisis novels set in the suburbs of Connecticut, not gothic tales of the uncanny. ‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ on Netflix, Is a Family Drama With Scares 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It may be a coincidence that Ms. Miller’s tenure as the first choreographer to be artist in residence at the Met overlaps with “Like Life,” but how convenient it is. Review: At Met Breuer, Dancers Try to Be Like Life, Too 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Wouldn't that be too much of a coincidence? Killing Rachel by Anne Cassidy – review 2013-07-24T14:00:00Z In a coincidence caused by pandemic delays, not one but two of his operas are opening nearly simultaneously before this month is out, and both involve the darkness Gordon adored in “Follies.” One Opera Opening Would Make Any Composer Happy. He Has Two. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z It’s not a coincidence that Zoe Saldana, an actress who is passionate about gender equality and feminism, has taken on three major franchises set in space. Zoe Saldana: Movies set in space offer better roles for women 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z But these stories have more in common than uncanny coincidence and bumps in the night, says Alemany Bay. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z That genre might be called talking-to-God television: series in which God’s presence is evident, through mystical powers or not-just-a-coincidence coincidences or whatever. Television Review: ‘Save Me,’ NBC’s New Comedy, Stars Anne Heche 2013-05-22T20:47:24Z It sounds like a coincidence, but Martin describes the encounter as something else. ‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z That Hollywood's other major outsized success this year — “The Lego Movie” — is characterized by this same marriage seems like no coincidence. 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and the rise of post-plot cinema 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z To celebrate this spooky coincidence, Denny’s has unveiled a special meal that will scare the blue out of diners. Denny's to offer 'Blue Moons Over My Hammy' sandwich made with blue bread on Halloween 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z It's no coincidence that he booked the Foos for the occasion. Foo Fighters will be Letterman's last musical guest: Why he loves them 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z That this first of Chekhov’s four great plays ends, as does “Patriots,” with a suicide is an intriguing coincidence that also points to the undercurrents of pain that inform both plays. Putin, Chekhov and the Theater of Despair 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The real Jordan Belfort’s life, after his conviction for shady financial dealings, continued to involve “a serious of bizarre coincidences,” Mr. Winter said. The Carpetbagger: ‘Wolf’s’ Writer Avoids His Own Spoiler Alerts 2014-02-03T16:50:47Z Suspense, done well, captures the attention so there’s no time to notice plot holes or preposterous coincidences. ‘Fear’ Review: 3 Men in a Shed, 1 Missing Girl on Their Minds 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Her return to Castle Black was way too significant to be a coincidence, or ignored. Game of Thrones: every possible way Jon Snow could come back from the dead 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z It is probably not coincidence that each of those titles involved taking back a pop-culture label of women. ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’: Everything It Promised, and Then Some 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z By coincidence, in London one night he meets the drag performer Lola, who complains in passing about the poor quality of the shoes she is obliged to wear. Lessons shoehorned into 'Kinky Boots' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z TIME: I’ve heard Steve Jobs, the film, described as Shakespearean, which is a bit of a coincidence given that you recently played Macbeth. Oscar Nominee Michael Fassbender on the Problem With Picking Winners in the Arts 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z "The honest answer is some of it is plain and simple coincidence," said Cindi Leive, editor in chief of Glamour magazine. More coincidence than conspiracy at fashion week 2013-02-10T18:35:10Z And beyond the small talk, an unlikely coincidence: High on Ella’s bucket list is a romantic trip in a tiny airplane. Date Lab: ‘I feel like we vibed’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the subheadings “Chaos” and “Order” recur in the book. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z But I still assumed it was a coincidence as it was such a common name. My brother was held as a slave for 26 years 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z I found myself smirking at the preposterous cascade of coincidences that had the central characters tumbling into one another continually, as if the population of early-19th-century France numbered around 27. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: 'Les Misérables,' Stage to Screen 2013-01-03T17:53:43Z But Hitchcock in the 1950s and ’60s did manage to distill something of the ambient weirdness of the times, and to make alongside it a counterfeit world of odd coincidences and disturbing reflections. | 'Double Take': Grimonprez Makes Hitchcock a Symbol of Cold War Era 2010-06-01T22:24:00Z It’s no coincidence that Seattle’s international travel options are expanding alongside the airport. What travelers should know about Sea-Tac Airport’s new arrivals facility 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that Parreno’s own installations constantly change, as if dismantling and rebuilding themselves, their movements dictated by mysterious forces. An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s not a coincidence that this narrative hasn’t dominated the conversation about the show yet. “Westworld” is woke: Just like on the HBO show, technology is widening the gulf between haves and have-nots 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z It’s not clear if the campaign was attempting to reference the U2 song or if the phrasing was just a coincidence. McDonald's apologizes for 'Sundae Bloody Sundae' Halloween promotion 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z This is a once in a lifetime coincidence so I don't envisage extending much beyond 2014, but who knows? Edinburgh festival director Jonathan Mills extends his contract until 2014 2011-02-03T13:58:56Z His republican and nationalist ideas embraced an Australia that was proud of its indigenous culture, and it was no coincidence that his 1976 Selected Poems was subtitled The Vernacular Republic. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z While it would be impossible to say whether the protests helped determine the prize at Cannes, the coincidence of the timing was noted. Julie Maroh, Author of ‘Blue’ Novel, Criticizes Film 2013-06-05T22:38:32Z It's no coincidence that the rise of matching outfits aligns neatly with the ego vortex known as family social media. Stop dressing like your kids – it's weird, sad and kind of creepy 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that this is all happening in Los Angeles, where comics move to work in TV and movies and stay to become ironic, insular and defeated about it. Riff: Stand-Up Comedy Without the Stand-Up. Or the Comedy. 2012-02-03T22:00:07Z That is changing, and it’s no coincidence that the wines are getting better as growers move toward more environmentally friendly farming techniques. The soil whisperers visit Black Ankle Vineyards Airports all over the country are littered with the classic piece, which Israel says is not a coincidence: “I call it a calming intervention.” Stressed out? Here are 10 science-backed design tips for bringing serenity to your home. - The Washington Post 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z By curious coincidence, both could be encountered, back-to-back, over the weekend. The Philip Glass effect on film: Transforming 'Dracula' and 'Beauty and the Beast' 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z It is, she says, no coincidence that her career took off after she managed to lay these ghosts to rest. Shappi Khorsandi: the last laugh 2011-08-10T20:30:02Z Is it a coincidence that after the standout success of "Squid Game" and "Parasite" so many U.S. shows would portray the same message? From "Parasite" to "Squid Game," America of course exploited South Korea's anti-capitalist content 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Certain coincidences and episodes become increasingly difficult to swallow. Ward Just's novel 'Rodin's Debutante': converging lives, loose ends 2011-03-09T23:49:04Z Yet by coincidence, not one but two new music dramas about major 20th-century thinkers — two German-Jewish intellectuals who fled the Nazis — have their premieres in Germany this season. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z That the three big races appropriate the argot and signifiers of the military is no coincidence. Extreme Obstacle Course Races Forge a Bond in Mud and Guts 2012-12-07T23:56:00Z The timing … is a coincidence of the worst kind, and we apologise for any distress or upset caused by what might seem to be a highly insensitive choice. Oxford English Dictionary apologises for 'highly insensitive' word of the day 2012-12-20T12:53:22Z But even with the tongue-in-cheek tone, it’s impossible to overlook the exhausting series of contrivances, coincidences and sloppy filmmaking. Review: ‘For a Few Bullets,’ an Antic Race Through Plot Contrivance 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the title “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” evokes, as A.O. A Pop-Culture Glossary for ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Those involved in the films say it's no coincidence that the releases come just weeks before the election. Films highlight Mexico's dark political past 2012-06-14T18:28:11Z Recently, after rewatching the documentary, I was surprised to discover an uncanny coincidence: when the show aired, in 1979, my mom was twenty-seven, single, and living in New York—just like I am today. Single City Slickers: Then and Now 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The fact that the Gamu case overlapped with the big political story of the week – the cut to welfare benefits – is a coincidence, but an instructive one. The Gamu Nhengu Factor 2010-10-09T08:30:00Z To bring that point home — and the curtain down — Mr. Harris slyly takes advantage of an emblematic coincidence. Books of The Times: Mark Harris’s ‘Five Came Back’ Covers Auteurs in Combat 2014-03-02T23:09:53Z This coincidence underscored the film’s topical relevance, which was hardly obscure to begin with. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z It’s a weird coincidence, but he had a show at the mausoleum in Altadena right before me. L.A. artist Marnie Weber reflects on why monsters hold such power for women 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z It is perhaps not a coincidence that Taylor-Johnson's statement doesn't mention the author by name. Sam Taylor-Johnson won't direct 'Fifty Shades of Grey' sequel 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that you enter this inferno by committing one of the seven deadly sins: Greed. Kim Kardashian's Genius New Game Is Basically Dante's Inferno 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that these moments depend on physical presence. A Gift From the Musical Gods 2011-08-17T14:36:45Z It's no coincidence that Disgrace's David Lurie is a lecturer working on Byron. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z It's no coincidence that season six, which has been defined by pot, speed and hash, has been laying the groundwork for these over-analytical conspiracies. Mad Men season six: Megan Draper as Sharon Tate, and other theories 2013-06-06T15:59:56Z Harper suspects it's no coincidence that the word rhymes with moo. LeBron James Returns to Cleveland with Miami: Why Fans Boo 2010-12-14T05:15:00Z I’m not sure if the actual amount of live events increased, or, if so, if it was coincidence or NBC adjusting its coverage. The Morning After: NBC Shoots, Scores With Live Soccer 2012-08-07T12:22:58Z It's not a coincidence that fireworks sound like guns, like bombs, that we set them off on our day of independence, won through guns and bombs. This 4th of July, let’s extinguish fireworks for good 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z One of those things is not like the others, I know, and strictly speaking there wasn’t then and isn’t now anything beyond calendar coincidence that links them together. ‘Star Wars,’ Elvis and Me 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z But it’s also the section in which the machinery of Mr. Selznick’s storytelling, with its mysticism and coincidences, creaks the loudest. Review: ‘Wonderstruck,’ Todd Haynes’s Imitations of Life 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z This timing is in fine coincidence with the construction scaffolding attached to the Toklas and Singerman Department Store, on the right. The view up Columbia Street, 1887 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z This might be coincidence, but Theresa May actually unveiled the Conservative party manifesto in the posture of a two-armed saguaro cactus. Looking sharp! How the cactus became the planet’s most-wanted plant 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The coincidence helped our sketch by giving it a kind of meta-publicity, but rendered it less satirical than it might’ve been. Always Too Soon: Writing Sketch Comedy in the Trump Era 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z I’m now dating a police officer, one who, by some extraordinary coincidence, was working at the station that received the call the night Bob was run over. Modern Love: Looking for Signs That It?s Meant to Be 2012-04-13T00:00:34Z Through sheer coincidence, she becomes a helper and prospective girlfriend for Robbie. Review: ‘My Blind Brother,’ Who Is Also a Major Pain 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s a contrived and heavily stage-managed premise — but contrived in a Dickensian sort of way with coincidences that reverberate with philosophical significance. The Handmaid’s Thriller: In ‘The Testaments,’ There’s a Spy in Gilead 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Asked on French TV about the timing of this concession, Sy, who is of Senegalese-Mauritanian origin and grew up in France, deadpanned: “You know, coincidences do exist.” Movie Honors the African Soldiers France Tried to Forget 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Later, by coincidence, Mr. Miller met the brand’s founders, David Roth and Anthony Rutgers, at a party in New York City. What’s Next for Bode Miller After Skiing? Hint: Think Fashion 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z If they're a good fit for each other, it's no coincidence. Gillian Anderson: The Fall girl who never bowed to Hollywood demands 2013-06-09T14:47:32Z Yet, the couple’s 12-year engagement is further delayed by a series of creeps and coincidences that will force Sudeikis’s cornball bank robber to brandish an electric drill and, eventually, a gun. ‘South of Heaven’ Review: Anything for Love 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The show's co-curator, Jenny Powell, said that by sheer coincidence, there were several German artists in the camp and a man in charge, Captain HO Daniel, who positively encouraged their efforts. Kurt Schwitters: Tate retrospective aims to explode myths about Dadaist 2013-01-28T17:48:53Z When I write, I always let myself be led by coincidence. My Canada 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Perhaps it's no coincidence that, while British literature is full of fascinating accounts of boyhood, some of the best portrayals of the childhood experiences of girls also reach us from New Zealand. Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock – review 2013-06-28T17:10:01Z “Gary and I, by complete coincidence, arrived at the same time,” she said. Lesley Manville Has Waited Long Enough 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In a sweet coincidence, the roses on the paper echo the flower the poet-to-be holds in her portrait. ‘I’m Nobody’? Not a Chance, Emily Dickinson 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z You didn’t mention whether this second Asian beau is a mere coincidence or special attraction. Social Q’s: The Same Old Song: ‘Society’s Child’ 2012-11-23T18:41:33Z These coincidences — or messages, as Mr. Tanner likes to call them — sprang him into action. Bounty Hunter Takes His Skills to the Met Stage 2010-12-26T22:36:09Z And given the closing-credits song this week is it a coincidence that we see the team watch the “Over the Rainbow” scene? ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 11 Recap: Home 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z It’s a pleasant coincidence that a critical mass of evidence about the historical Amazons has coalesced at the same time that our culture, in characters such as Katniss Everdeen, is settling into an Amazon moment. The Real Amazon Warriors 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z “It’s this idea that all these pieces of the puzzle are on this strange line between coincidence and fate.” Reading ‘Us’ Through Its T-shirts 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z "The number plates were a coincidence," Wilman said, adding he would never "jeopardise a whole show" by "winding up" war veterans. BBC 'does not trust' Top Gear 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Onstage, wide-eyed and strutting, it’s clear that Trey Songz believes his own lines — it’s no coincidence both of his outfits involved buttons. Music Review: A Hands-On Approach to Entertaining His Fans 2010-09-17T22:35:00Z “As much as in politics you tend to discount coincidence, I think this is probably the case where it’s pretty applicable.” Everyone who’s won this seat in Congress has gotten divorced afterward 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “After all, Thursday night, the night they were detained, was the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in. Are we supposed to believe that was a coincidence? Yes.” Stephen Colbert Explains How His ‘Late Show’ Staff Was Detained in Washington 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps it's no coincidence that on the third leg of their 360° Tour, this summer, they rejigged the playlist to focus more on their early-'90s work. A U2 documentary that's not pretentious 2011-09-16T23:30:00Z Reading this in Laurens’s book, I was seized with a desire to contact her immediately, to share this clue that points to nothing but mere coincidence. Camille Laurens’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” Is a Fascinating Hybrid, and Obsessed with Obsession 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Later, in September, it didn't seem like much of a coincidence when we realized, thanks to Facebook, that we were both at a Madonna concert at Yankee Stadium on the same night. T Magazine: All Aboard 2012-11-15T22:22:03Z No coincidence, the city also ranked at the top of the survey for vivid people-watching. These Are the Friendliest Cities in America 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “It’s a coincidence my sister and her wife are here today,” said Ms. Hernandez, who, like Mr. Bell, was born in Mexico, where both are citizens. They Married at City Hall (But Didn’t Toss the Bouquet) 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Was news of the real occurrence of this supremely Ballardian metaphor a coincidence? A brief survey of the short story part 26: JG Ballard 2010-06-10T15:24:00Z “I think it is a coincidence, but this is also about love of film, and they are all true filmmakers,” Grau said. This Movie Season, It’s a Black-and-White Boom 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Morris: And yet you don’t really believe in coincidences, do you? ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z The nice little coincidence of having accidentally read him afresh not far from his place of birth confirmed my decision. Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z That coincidence felt to me like a gift, as though our subsequent great bond were preordained. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The coincidence of their arrival is a little creepy, but it suggests the growing relevance of this subject for a generation reviewing itineraries to the undiscovered country with deep ambivalence. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The group wore mostly black, but then it often does, and it could have been a coincidence that Nicholas Cords, the violist, wore an orange tie. Music Review: Brooklyn Rider at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-11-03T21:43:04Z Botulinum toxin is a poison that by some macabre coincidence both causes botulism and cures wrinkles. The Art of Botox 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Two may be a coincidence, but three is a trend, and these movies clearly represent a disturbing crisis in human relationships. Movie Review: ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green,’ Starring Jennifer Garner 2012-08-14T22:10:05Z Another children's book – published in 1896, nine years before The Railway Children appeared – includes an episode seemingly too similar for coincidence alone. E Nesbit's classic The Railway Children accused of 'plagiarism' 2011-03-21T14:40:53Z That may have been coincidence, but it’s clear that some of Mr. Paisley’s fans were turned off by a song that saluted the nation’s first black president — and, perhaps worse, a Democrat. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z It is no doubt coincidence that the query is so particularly pertinent in Britain right now. Can Scandinavian crime fiction teach us something about socialism? 2011-02-24T09:00:03Z This isn’t influence or coincidence, though Williams shares geographical, generational and genre markings with those and many other writers. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Even at Carnegie Hall, a coincidence like this is rare. Daniil Trifonov and Yuja Wang Play at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The show doesn't make a whole lot of this, so I don't know if I should – but it does seem an odd coincidence. Julia Child's secret sauce and the little black dresses of French cuisine 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z “It’s no coincidence that the stock of private prison corporations like CAA went through the roof with Trump’s election.” Pussy Riot members, journalist Masha Gessen on the Putin-Trump bromance: “Shortest honeymoon in history” 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z It might have been a coincidence, but white was the signature color of suffragists, and Cheney evoked them, too. Perspective | Liz Cheney understood the assignment 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps you could say it’s the writers’ fault that Scotty’s death resulted from such a stunning coincidence. ‘The Affair’ Season 2 Finale: You’ll Have to Choose 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z By coincidence, Goode's pupils were able to chat about Dream with their link-school counterparts from Grasmere primary school in Hackney, east London, who paid their annual visit to Cumbria earlier this month. Midsummer Night's Dream by Lake District pupils 2010-07-20T07:30:00Z It’s no coincidence that most of the great movie acting is found in movies by the best directors—and also that great directors are frequently responsible for the discovery of stars. A Nineteen-Fifties TV Series That Let Directors Run Free 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The last part of this lunatic conversation was predicated on the coincidence that I was going to be sleeping alone in our house on that Friday night. I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman? 2012-11-11T02:15:00Z The central plot of “Parallel Mothers” is vintage Almodóvar: a skein of reversals, revelations, surprises and coincidences unraveled with style, wit and feeling. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Whether as a result of her measures or happy coincidence, reported assaults at Green Man are virtually nil. ‘Avoid dark areas’: are music festivals doing enough to tackle sexual assault? 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, a happy scheduling coincidence creates the chance for a mini “MAGIC FLUTE” festival. The Week Ahead: Dec. 26 ? Jan. 1 2010-12-24T14:55:53Z "We live in a small town and by coincidence my wife worked on 'The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana' for CBS," he wrote. ArtsBeat: At N.Y.U. Film Department, a Faculty Dispute Over a 30-Year-Old Show 2012-08-31T20:57:50Z “My Meteorite” sometimes seems like a catalog of coincidences, none of which are too minor to merit rumination. Is There Cosmic Meaning in Life’s Randomness? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z She and Shattuck met two summers ago through a series of meaningful coincidences that brought them north of the Arctic Circle. Jenny Slate Wrote a Book-Shaped Thing. What Is It? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z It is not a coincidence that Naughty Dog is based in Santa Monica, Calif. The influence of film is just too strong. Video Game Review: Uncharted 3: Drake?s Deception - Review 2011-11-07T23:04:05Z Salt, her own life marked with opportunities and coincidences, seemed destined to write the film. "Eat Pray Love" marks writing debut for actress 2010-08-16T04:01:00Z Wevers' feeling, given the coincidences involved, is that it was meant to happen. Seattle dance troupe Whim W'Him moves into new home at Intiman 2011-01-06T00:02:04Z It is no coincidence, he says, that in his native French as well as in English the verb "to play" or jouer is used when actors take on a part. Heartbreaker 2011-07-16T23:05:12Z “Any resemblance to a person with this name is an unfortunate and surreal coincidence. I am sorry about all he has experienced.” Lena Dunham and the challenges of memoir 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Judged by strictly naturalistic standards, the flurry of revelations and coincidences that wrap up the double story may seem implausible. | 'Incendies': Scavenger Hunt for Family Secrets Across Time and Geography 2011-04-21T22:24:49Z This was a coincidence, but it was also something more. Piano sonatas at Monday Evening Concerts and Piano Spheres reveal futuristic visions 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that, like Mr. Lamar’s colleagues in Leimert Park, virtually all of them come from strong city scenes and learned much of what they know outside of school. Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Zavion ends up with Henry's blue jeans and the marble, and through a series of coincidences that verge on the miraculous, Henry ends up in Louisiana. 'Another Kind of Hurricane,' 'Drowned City' take on Katrina 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z But it is easy to forgive the author his Dickensian affection for coincidence. Hot town 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z There’s probably a world in which this coincidence would be met by fear, sadness, or sympathy for those affected. The NYSE shutdown prompts irrepressible, apocalyptic glee: “In Zuccotti Park, Goldman Sachs boys build a squatters city out of Hermes gift boxes” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that income inequality is a recurring theme in the nation’s cinema. ‘Parasite’ and South Korea’s Income Gap: Call It Dirt Spoon Cinema 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The homophony of “Devine” and “the Vine” was, of course, more than mere coincidence. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z “It is no coincidence that at this same location, the Border Patrol access has been limited by land managers who have literally locked out Border Patrol vehicles.” Border fence’s devastating toll 2012-09-18T22:00:00Z It is also no coincidence that “wakefulness” medications cause insomnia and insomnia drugs, because of their hangover, create a market for wakefulness drugs. 6 ways Big Pharma manipulates consumers 2013-04-28T13:00:00Z He produced and stars in an extemporaneous one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” that, by coincidence, opened at the Public Theater on Oct. The Steve Jobs Backlash 2011-11-02T23:13:20Z In Hong Kong, my father provided me with the luxury of a very international education, one that approached the world through a Western lens and defined kismet as a quirky serendipitous encounter, as mere coincidence. The True Story of My Marriage to a Pot 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Simply put, these were already challenging songs, and it’s no coincidence that audiences found more energy to wring out from each of them. The Beats Fuelling the Viral Dance Challenges 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z But this year, either by coincidence or by through the inscrutable workings of the spirit of the times, the story is being retold not once, but twice, both times with impressive clarity and seriousness. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “I don’t believe in magic, but I believe in interpreting coincidence exactly the way you want to,” Alexie adds, laughing. Sherman Alexie on his new memoir, his mother and politics as usual 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z It's a general rule of culture that two is a coincidence, three a trend. Baby-bust: new dramas focus on wealth gulf between parents and children 2012-06-21T15:18:29Z The flood of films about Gallipoli – or the Battle of Çanakkale, as Turks more commonly call it – isn't precisely a coincidence, what with the centenary approaching in two years' time. Will platoon of Gallipoli films give Turkish audiences battle fatigue? 2013-05-09T11:20:04Z It may be a coincidence that this show and Ken Burns’ The Roosevelts in September, which begins with Teddy Roosevelt’s progressivism, are revisiting this period at the same time. REVIEW: The Knick 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The characters are drawn with empathy and humor, and the cascading series of coincidences neatly illustrates the idea that, as the title suggests, we are all hostages to chance. Humana Festival, Turning 40, Looks at Mortality, Dystopia and Change 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z “By coincidence we ran into each other,” Mr. Shreiner said, “and we started talking about how the Miami food culture needed to grow and change and evolve.” Bites : A Gastro Pub by the Palms in Miami 2013-02-06T20:47:37Z A mysterious story about a boy finding a meteorite ingeniously boomerangs, coincidences mount, patterns emerge, junk proves valuable and she chooses to “take the side of amazement.” ‘Lost & Found’ Ponders Profound Grief Alongside Newfound Love 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z But by sheer coincidence, Stefan Asbury, who conducted the world premiere of “Responses” in Munich last October, was spending a few days in Massachusetts. Review: Boston Symphony Gives Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘Responses’ an American Premiere 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Williams titled early drafts of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “The Moth.” Scottish Ballet's 'A Streetcar Named Desire' gives muscle to female characters 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The coincidence of two great film-makers dying in the space of three days would be striking enough. Sex factor: Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci's transgressive legacy 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The timing of the two books had more to do with coincidence than a grand scheme by the authors or their publishers to attract attention. Stossel Family Problems Spelled Out in New Releases 2013-12-22T22:15:52Z And now we seem also to have entered a world of easy coincidence, or at least classical tragedy. ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ Review: Hit and Run, Sleight of Hand 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z I like to tell myself: “It would be an impossible coincidence for the exact thing you’re thinking of to actually happen,” as though my anxiety itself somehow makes disaster less likely. 'Sick and asphyxiating' – why we live in an age of anxiety 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z And still, she plays with the stylish levity heard in many of this year’s flute-friendly rap songs — which isn’t a coincidence. Perspective | How Bjork, Future and the brightest minds in jazz tried to save 2017 with magic flutes 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The similar palette may be no coincidence; both albums deal with heartbreak and perseverance. For Björk, a New Album, ‘Vulnicura,’ and a MoMA Show 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z "It seems far more than coincidence that Dark Ages Spawn is a knight from the same century as Medieval Spawn," the judge wrote. Author Neil Gaiman wins suit over Spawn characters 2010-08-02T16:07:00Z Now, though, in a horrific coincidence, her novel arrives as Paris is bleeding and the Republican presidential candidates are giddily stringing barbed wire along our borders. ‘The Age of Reinvention’ review: A novel of Islamophobia and deception 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z “If we don’t have any British writers, it is just a coincidence. We are not making any statement.” Americans Lockwood, Powers, Shipstead up for Booker Prize 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z And not because of capricious gods, or cruel coincidences. Review: Jealousy and Lies in a No-Exit Theater of War in ‘Othello’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Even those coincidences start to contribute to a cleverly nuanced point about how much of the system we assume to be inscribed in stone is actually dependent on chance and individual fortune. The Trade Secret by Robert Newman – review 2013-06-07T17:35:01Z As for the fact that the acquisition happened around the same time as the Tiffany acquisition, Mr. Burke said it was a coincidence. The Second Biggest Diamond in History Has a New Owner 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z And it’s no coincidence that many slow games are set in a virtual backyard. The Slow-Game App Is the New Smoke Break 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Ulysses earns a living making globes — delicate, hand-painted models of a planet recently blown apart and reassembled by war. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z And definitely not the narratively convenient confluence of coincidence and timing. White House Down: D.C. Meets Die Hard 2013-06-26T20:20:17Z Abraham Maslow’s theories about “peak experiences,” those meaningful coincidences that Jung dubbed “synchronicities,” Robert Graves’s fantastic scholarship about the White Goddess — they all enriched Wilson’s thinking. UFOs, alien abductions, the occult: to one man, the building blocks of scholarship 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z “The event was held on a college campus. The man was a professor . . . a well-known author . . . I would not even have been in that town, had it not been for a coincidence.” Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Make 550-some episodes of any TV show, and some unusual coincidences start to turn up. Time Is a Round Donut: The Graze-Watching Possibilities of Simpsons World 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z It can hardly be coincidence that three of his seven originals have the word “dance” in their titles. New Music: Albums From Sohn, Oran Etkin and Pedro Luis Ferrer 2014-04-07T21:31:47Z Is the “Second Life” in this book’s title a coincidence? Review: A New Antihero From Steve Hamilton 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z It can’t be a coincidence that most American movies are also made by groups of men. Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z It's not a magical coincidence that women are diagnosed years later than men for life-threatening health conditions. In Hulu's "False Positive," the real monster isn't just a shady fertility doctor 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Another unfortunate coincidence: when Tony Blair’s government outlawed hunting with hounds, in 2004, it somehow forgot to extend the ban to the British press. “Amy,” Back from Black 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z This sort of slam-bang Marx Brothers comedy, where the coincidences pile atop each other and almost every scene ends in chaos, isn't necessarily Akin's strong suit. Best of Tribeca: "Soul Kitchen" 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z As they now prepare for the openings of the musical and movie, Mr. Pasek and Mr. Paul describe what looks like sudden success as largely a coincidence. What It’s Like to Make It in Showbiz With Your Best Friend 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Portions of the plot stretch the long arm of coincidence to astonishing lengths, but the various twists are certainly entertaining. Summer reads: romance, discovery and reconciliation 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that the better than half of the State Department-recognized refugee resettlement partner organizations are religious organizations: This is part of who Christians are or at least were. Conservative Christians are divided on Trump’s stance on refugees — but they can be convinced 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that “Myelination,” too, starts in the dark, giving sound a moment to itself; in tap, listening is as paramount as seeing. Review: Dorrance Dance, Tapping Out the Joy 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Of all the strange coincidences: The traveler and the dog hailed from the same city in South Carolina. If you’re stressed about flying, these four-legged therapists can help 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that the holiday’s symbolic Seder plate consists of seasonal foods that symbolize the birth and renewal of a Jewish nation. How to turn Passover’s ‘bread of affliction’ into comfort food 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Such an accidental release, it said, “would have required a remarkable series of coincidences and deviations from well-established experimental protocols.” The media called the ‘lab leak’ story a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Now it’s prompted corrections — and serious new reporting. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z In an odd coincidence, Lucy owns the same couch Nina featured in her column. Two dying memoirists wrote bestsellers about their final days. Then their spouses fell in love. 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The real life Piampaschet is instead in jail, where he has claimed that the similarities between his manuscript and the murder are coincidence. Italian arrested in murder case with echoes of Basic Instinct 2012-08-22T15:51:55Z In a coincidence that might remind you of “The Makropulos Case,” it’s called “Diva’s Elixir.” A Shape-Shifting Opera Singer, With a Debut to Match 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z “It was a strange coincidence. I was really excited. And I was a bit drunk as well.” How we met: ‘I said: Oh my God – it’s the boy on the bike’ 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Yes, it’s a ridiculous coincidence, and yes, Mr. Scott is a rather bland hero, but Mr. Van Damme seems to be having a great time. Movie Review: ‘Enemies Closer’ Stars a Ruthless Jean-Claude Van Damme 2014-01-24T00:28:17Z Later, I met her by coincidence at a conference in Berlin. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z With more regularity than can be coincidence, his guests utter racist, misogynist and anti-science falsehoods. Perspective | Joe Rogan is too powerful to keep acting as if he’s just a regular guy chopping it up 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Is it a coincidence you mentioned all women? Will Songwriting Survive Streaming? Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus Is Worried. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Is it just a coincidence that the Royal Ballet's new season of Swan Lake opened at Covent Garden yesterday? Gobo. Digital Glossary ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:54Z By coincidence, 20 percent of the films in the official program in this year's edition are directed by women. 'Hugo' editor Thelma Schoonmaker wins Gucci award 2012-08-31T23:05:11Z And it might just be a happy coincidence, but this series is being released slap-bang in the middle of that very festival. Transparent recap: season two, episode one – The Letting Go 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z By coincidence on Wednesday, the California Fish and Game Commission formally voted to list the gray wolf as an endangered species under that state's wildlife protection laws. Famous Oregon wolf that trekked to California has puppies 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z That this aligns with the central message of "Dispatches," one that encourages seeing the world differently and creating beauty and hope whenever and wherever you can, is pure coincidence. "Dispatches From Elsewhere" stars on connecting to the show's mystery without a murder 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Improbable coincidences continue, along with overwritten dialogue that veers from self-consciously enigmatic to windy and pretentious. | 'Letters to the End of the World': Anton Dudley?s Play About the Effects of AIDS 2010-05-10T21:44:00Z Let’s say there’s a happy confluence of coincidences that results in $27 billion of revenue per year for the transplant business and incomes unheard of in other medical specialties. ArtsBeat: Dick Teresi Talks About the Line Between Life and Death 2012-04-12T18:04:38Z He still goes most days to the one-room office he rents in West Hollywood to read scripts and write, on the lot where, by coincidence, “Hail, Caesar!” was shot. The Man Who Would Be Han Solo 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s probably not a coincidence that “natural” animal actors are earning rapturous praise just as we enter a new era of unreal images, thanks to the rise of C.G.I. Are Animals Getting Better at Acting? 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z It's no coincidence that People has become the focal point. People magazine iPad app delayed by paparazzi 2010-08-18T07:53:00Z The network’s Dana Bash shared Reid’s statement in an online interview last Monday, by the way, which cannot be a coincidence. Smart Watch: Killer Mike and Kal Penn explain it all in In "Trigger Warning" and "This Giant Beast 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Here, for O. Henry, coincidence is a means to an ending that’s haunted by the lives of its desperate, impoverished characters. Review: ‘Wild Tales’ Explores the Blurred Limits of Morality 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The artist was also struck by a coincidence: in Arabic, the word “tamir” means “date,” a food found in abundance in his family’s home country and a frequent subject of his work. An Artist Honors Tamir Rice, One Orange Object at a Time 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that The X-Files revival has come when there’s the same climate in global politics – extreme scepticism – as when it first aired. 'Your government lies': why the X-Files revival is just right for our climate of extreme scepticism 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z That both films divide the characters visually this way may be a coincidence, a motif of Francis’s or simply a principle of smart image composition. Do Cinematographers Have a Signature? Let’s Try a Test 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z It was this feeling of family and coincidence, and it was a nice place to bring the story to a close and really globalize the song. Robyn Wrote a Song About Getting Drunk, Doing Karaoke and Jamming with a Metalhead 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z "I think what people mistake for fate is actually a logarithm of interests and coincidences that brings you into the orbit of people who are like-minded; that's how you make your friends." Losers in love 2011-02-05T00:03:33Z So it seems no coincidence that he worked particularly hard at finding hard-working respectable people like himself to put on his list, and that a large proportion of those people are British. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z “Three photographs changed public perception of the Vietnam War, and it’s no coincidence the photographers were working for The Associated Press,” said Anne Wilkes Tucker, curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Images of the Vietnam War That Defined an Era 2013-09-04T22:30:01Z She often writes while walking outdoors, she said, “so it’s not a coincidence that most of my songs are 85 or 90 beats per minute.” For Björk, a New Album, ‘Vulnicura,’ and a MoMA Show 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z That these movies have hit in the same season surely has more to do with coincidence and the Oscar aspirations of their distributors than with a revived interest in revisiting ghosts of Hollywood past. Movies: A Season of Movies About Movies 2011-12-04T03:43:05Z It's no coincidence, after all, that the trophy is a tub of golden popcorn. MTV Movie Awards: 'Guardians,' 'Fault,' 'Neighbors' lead nominations 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Herzog's parade of oddball commentators and his own inimitably dry delivery of such coincidences as the close proximity to this cave of albino crocodiles make this, too, a beguiling experience of wonderment. Berlin film festival ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:49Z Death claims the timing is no coincidence as Warner battles to save its superhero cinematic universe following Batman v Superman’s critical travails. Ben Affleck 'humiliated' by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice reviews 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Is it a coincidence that this comes right after her speech? Emma Watson Asked Men to Support Women And Here's How They Responded 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The novel is driven by a sense of wonder—the protagonist’s—that its teeming adventures and wild coincidences could fit together in the brief but epic span of one young man’s coming of age. Review: The Wan Faithfulness That Made “The Goldfinch” Movie a Flop 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z It was no coincidence that I went to Australia to make it. The Loach family business 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z His parting words, by no coincidence, sounded like they came from a god. Is Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut the best version we'll ever see? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The comic, a veteran of satirical TV panel show Mock the Week, says that it's "not a coincidence that you see people we would call satirists at the politician-of-the-year awards." Frankie Boyle gets satirical – and Two and A Half Men star says: stop watching 2012-11-27T15:18:44Z In the second, there was transformation, but it happened by coincidence and indirection, through the choices of businessmen “whose only law was to buy in the cheapest market and sell without restriction in the dearest.” Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z It is no coincidence that they have passed through five different record labels in six albums. The Walkmen: 'We're not difficult, honest' 2011-01-13T22:45:01Z The story hinges on a set of fateful coincidences that profoundly change the lives of everyone involved. ‘Twin Sisters’ From China Stay in Touch 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z This is aided, of course, by the happy coincidence of his writing his own music. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z So, being interested in the work of Carl Jung and in phenomenology, and in the usefulness of coincidence, I’d say that here in this moment it is necessary to discover something. I had to punish myself 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z And while this coincidence is eerie, to say the least, it is just that: coincidence. Seeing God's wrath in the hurricanes 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z But it was no coincidence that the hipsters and film geeks lingered outside the Landmark Sunshine Theater, talking about what it all meant. Terrence Malick, divine director 2013-04-28T17:00:00Z It can't be a coincidence that all these more lighthearted takes on heroic journeys come from head writers who are women. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe comedy is a woman's work 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z It's easy to make hints out of coincidence, of course, especially if one is predisposed to finding such hints. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z It's no coincidence, either, that the digital convenience culture and just-in-time shipping that Americans have become accustomed to has also bled over into the way its people see their four-legged friends. The changing face of “America’s dog” — and what it says about us 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z By coincidence they both have characteristic new albums releasing on Tuesday and reaching for some of the same ideals. New Music: Mindless Behavior and LeAnn Rimes - Review 2011-09-26T22:44:16Z Is it just a coincidence that as China feels like a threat to the U.S. economy a North Korean dictator, supported by the Chinese government, seems like an easy target to make fun of? ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The stories moves across states and time, linked together by coincidences that Rakoff describes in little jewel boxes of scenes that propel the action forward. Summer reads - best book to share: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff 2013-07-22T15:04:00Z It hardly seems a coincidence that the season of Game of Thrones widely regarded as the show’s weakest – season seven – was the one that featured next to nothing from George RR Martin’s original novels. Turning a new leaf: how TV's bravest writers are reimagining the world of fantasy 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z A similar coincidence exists with the summertime debut of "The Lost Boys" in 1987 months before Black Monday dealt a wallop to Wall Street in October. Beware the rise of vampire shows. It could mean a recession is looming 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Her breakthrough moment was something of a coincidence. The Lesbian Perez Hilton of TikTok 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Isn’t it just as likely that it’s a meaningless coincidence and White called him Stuart Little simply because he was little? “The Mansion of Happiness”: Matters of life and death 2012-06-24T21:00:00Z The story comes with just the sort of eerie coincidences on which Morris’s techniques normally thrive. Review | In ‘Wormwood,’ Errol Morris finds a limit to how many layers a mystery can have 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Bovell is big on coincidences and on recurring motifs, even recurring bits of dialogue. Theater Review | 'When the Rain Stops Falling': Fish Soup and Bad Weather, Across the Decades 2010-03-09T08:12:00Z Or it may be nothing more than coincidence. Donor siblings: do the ties of blood matter? 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z By coincidence, the twentieth anniversary of New Labour’s landslide victory in 1997 also fell last week, causing its own ripple of reflections about how the U.K. has changed and what might have been. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The next day I thought maybe it was the wine talking, maybe it was just a coincidence, maybe if we met today it wouldn't be so good. Icona Pop put some punk spirit into dance music 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z But the investigators, who arrested Mr. Durst in New Orleans, where he was traveling under an alias, said the timing was purely a coincidence. As Durst Murder Case Goes Forward, HBO’s Film Will Also Be on Trial 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z It is possible the collision of scene setting and current events was really just a coincidence. Harvey Weinstein Casts a Shadow on Dior and Saint Laurent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z White House spokesman Jay Carney said the overlapping was a coincidence. Boehner asks Obama to delay speech 2011-09-01T00:00:00Z "Dear White People" could not have asked for a better concluding coincidence than the parallel between this season's show-within-a-show "Big House" and the current cycle of "Big Brother," the CBS reality show it parodies. "Dear White People" visits the "Big Brother" Cookout via a pointed parody of reality show racism 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z By coincidence we were both in for treatment on the same day. Henning Mankell: ‘Eventually the day comes when we all have to go’ 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z For me, 1968 was like that – frantic and dazzling and filled with fantastic delights and strange coincidences and opportunities and promise. How I spent Christmas of 1968 — in dirty, snowy, brilliant, thrilling New York City 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Alas, it’s not the only time Pamuk reaches into the grab-bag of improbable coincidences and pulls out an unlikelihood that strains reasonable bounds. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z And by coincidence, a handful of writers came across it at the same time. What Happens When Everyone Is Writing the Same Book You Are? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z That the professor speaking on the radio turns out to be Marie-Laure’s grandfather just adds to the elements of felicity and coincidence that enrich this narrative. Books of The Times: ‘All the Light We Cannot See,’ by Anthony Doerr 2014-04-28T21:39:45Z The disjunction may be a coincidence; after all, there are infinite moments to potentially remember and a finite number of photos capturing them. Shutterbug Parents and Overexposed Lives 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Tommy’s re-appearance at this crucial moment, his clasping of her hand, seems an impossible coincidence — but no more impossible than the disappearance of 2 percent of the world. 'The Leftovers' Recap: In the Finale, a Showdown 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z "It is a strange coincidence" that Juanes is again in conflict with the Cuban exiles, said his spokesman. Source: Juanes postpones concert in Miami 2011-01-31T22:32:09Z |
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