unpropitious

This is, therefore, an unpropitious moment to pursue criminal justice reforms that sensible progressives might favor — e.g., concerning plea bargaining — but that opportunistic politicians can stigmatize as coddling criminals.

Sometimes the owners of the shops and restaurants would try to disrupt these journeys, to pause the visitors in their flight through time: They would talk to them, try to get to know them, in the hope perhaps that one of these initiatives might take root, as gardeners of unpropitious soil plant quantities of seedlings in order that some will survive.

Unpropitious, too, is the current plunge towards a world recession.

“You follow this writer where she wishes to take you. She is a poet of steel shavings, of semidetached feeling, of unexpected links and impieties and unpropitious implications. She’s writing criticism of daily life — criticism of the state of her own soul.”

She is a poet of steel shavings, of semidetached feeling, of unexpected links and impieties and unpropitious implications.