| Seen from the standpoint of ordinary people, the essential theme of the the eighteenth-century experience was not so much achievement as the fragility and chanciness of life. |
| The main characteristic of my work is the contrast between chanciness and design. |
| He likes the chanciness of the San Andreas fault, on which he now lives in California. |
| There seems to be one unexplained blonde in every cab, bringing the whole sober transportation problem the chanciness of the midway. |
| And really it probably is time to move on from all that chanciness and churn. |
| The chanciness of anyone's coming-to-be is part of the human condition, like mortality. |
