The cheese - a whole-milk Vacherin from the Jura, whose peak season happily coincides with Thanksgiving - came with music from the Russian soprano Edita Gruberova.

We had good weather for most of the trip, with the exception of a cloudburst that happily coincided with a lunch stop.

Without intellectualizing, it presents modern pop history as a sprawling canvas in which the past and the present coincide happily, and everything has a familiar sing-along quality.

Europe's pressing need (finding jobs for its people) happily coincides with America's pressing need (finding people for its jobs).

'Then our interests happily coincide.'

The trip happily coincided with her spring break from school.

The literary luncheon at which Penelope Fitzgerald was guest speaker happily coincided with the shortlisting of her latest novel for the Booker Prize.

With Mr. Sutherland, patriotism, public service and his own pleasures happily coincide.

"His ideas of right and wrong have thus far happily coincided with our ideas of right and wrong."

For one couple this happily coincided with their Golden Wedding Day.