| There is a large degree of economic happenstance governing the trend, observers like Palmer say. |
| But, nevertheless, the happenstance still makes me feel that fate likes to smile every so often upon the introverted bookworms of the world. |
| It all seems transient, happenstance, until you start concentrating on the apparently artless compositions of these powerful images. |
| He distilled them into a mode of chaste abstraction based on observed fact: details of architecture, happenstances of light and shadow. |
| A string of such happenstances might explain how the United States came to have 12 separate broods of 17-year cicadas. |
| It grew up at a particular part in history by a set of circumstances and happenstances. |
