opportune moment
Synonyms
Examples
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
Thou wast indeed fortunate, Agricola, not only in the splendour of thy life, but in the opportune moment of thy death.
IBM scientist Murray Campbell from the Deep Blue team revealed that the "extremely human move” in the chess game against Gary Kasparov was actually a bug in the program that was later fixed. What an opportune moment for a computer to evince that "To err is human!”.
The FBI may decide to leave a suspected mole undisturbed for years in order to feed him false critical information at an opportune moment or to use him to catch a bigger fish.
She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment.