[ adv ] by good fortune <adv.all> fortunately the weather was good
Luckily \Luck"i*ly\, adv. [From {Lucky}.] In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.
This is Branson's first acting role, since he usually has only to sing in his career as Roy Orbison; but luckily Orbison was undemonstrative to a fault.
Except with a Baron Ochs of irrepressible geniality - like the late Kurt Bohme - the Act 3 farce soon wears thin, and I know one producer who vowed to delete the entire levee scene from Act 1 if ever he had the chance (luckily, he never did).
"Of course it's hard on the family to have to say goodbye," said Ms. Mortensen. "And luckily my boyfriend and I are used to being separated.
Then I saw falling glass, broken glass on the street, but luckily not near me, " said Les Galvacs who was walking down Market Street in downtown San Francisco.
I crashed big time, too, but luckily I didn't get hurt.
"Some of them fizzle out, luckily, and others don't, and we keep monitoring to see what the potential is," Corbett said.