Serendipitous & Serendipity

serendipitous







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–adjective 

1. come upon or found 

by 

accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific [discov]eries.  



2. of, pertaining to, or suggesting serendipity.

3. good; beneficial; favorable: serendipitous weather for our vacation.  





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serendipity (n.), serendipitous (adj.)   

 

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



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



thaumaturgical

奇蹟的,奇術的





 　

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





sorcerer

If John’s illness resembles the [curse] put on Sleeping Beauty by an evil [sorcerer], 

incantation

The attractions of impromptu ritual are [a] constant in Me and You, in the incantatory [recitations] Christine records for her videos

repetitious wordiness to conceal a lack of content, obfuscation

Her prose too often resorts to [incantation].  

Crypto