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propitious adjective accommodating, approving, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, benignant, cheering, clear, clement, cloudless, conducive, disposed to bestow favors, encouraging, expedient, favorably inclined, felicitous, fortunate, friendly, full of promise, generous, golden, gracious, happy, heartening, heaven sent, helpful, helping, hopeful, indulgent, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lucky, merciful, obliging, opportune, presenting favorable conditions, promising, propitius, providential, reassuring, roseate, seasonable, supporting, sympathetic, timely, unhostile, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning See also: auspicious, beneficial, favorable, fitting, opportune, seasonable, viable How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Though he was called a culture vulture, voyeur and white decadent by some, it was through Van Vechten that Larsen made many life-altering liaisons, meeting Ethel Waters, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, and most propitiously, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, the publishers of Larsen's novels. The feds, led by Agent Mahone (a well-cast William Fichtner, propitiously freed from the Florida swamps of ``Invasion''), are in feverish pursuit -- Mahone is coming tantalizingly close to unlocking the mysteries behind those tattoos Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), mastermind of the breakout, employed to facilitate his daring getaway. In Michigan, where the legislature has wiped the revenue slate clean of property-tax revenue and schools must be refunded from scratch, a fall 1994 choice initiative now seems propitiously timed. |
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