| He distilled them into a mode of chaste abstraction based on observed fact: details of architecture, happenstances of light and shadow. |
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| A string of such happenstances might explain how the United States came to have 12 separate broods of 17-year cicadas. |
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| It grew up at a particular part in history by a set of circumstances and happenstances. |
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| This usually requires a series of happenstances that are indistinguishable from luck, or magic, and if we need some sort of mumbo-jumbo to help us forget that — well, the mumbo-jumbo of mentalism works as well as any other. |
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| The coincidence, Silverstein explained the other day from his office in Chicago, is one of those weird prepublication happenstances that, not having been avoided, can only be embraced. |
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| Aristotle reasoned that instances in which dreams do resemble future events are happenstances not divinations. |
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