ONE of my first meaningful encounters with California pinot noir was at the Four Seasons in the mid-1980's, when Seppi Renggli was the chef.

They would be Spain's Desafio Español, the team Victory is scheduled to face in Monday's most meaningful encounter.

Through this remembered landscape, nine performers drift and congregate in brief but meaningful encounters.

For Germaine, burdened by the infirmities of old age, it would have been a meaningful encounter, so many years later, with a child she had pulled back from the edge of catastrophe.

And Mr. Grant, despite some overused fluttering and stammering, rises touchingly to the film's most straightforward and meaningful encounters.

When Rabbi Rudin said there that "every meaningful Catholic-Jewish encounter must address Israel," he made clear that this discussion could not be limited to questions of recognition and security.

The school is considered a facilitator for people to have meaningful encounters in the presence of God.

The first meaningful encounters with the Mets have been dubbed Steinbrenner's personal World Series, and everyone has vouched for how important this series is to the Boss.

I found myself in envy of female travelers, who (despite occasional harassment at the hands of local Casanovas) were able to have meaningful encounters with men and women alike.

They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.