In this respect, the strip had an occasional tendency to embrace science fiction overtones.
While the food is quite good, the kitchen's occasional tendency to oversauce is something to watch out for.
The Light can best be described as melodic power metal with the occasional symphonic tendency.
Spock was a good friend and the best first officer in the fleet, but he had an occasional tendency to state the obvious.
"Did anyone ever tell you that you have an occasional tendency toward sarcasm?"
If Ms. Carey's voice is magnificent, she still has an occasional tendency to overdo the melismatic gymnastics.
She has an occasional tendency toward flatness these days and seems to have particular difficulty with large upward intervals in quiet passages.
In the original tale, the Beast is seen to be kind-hearted for the most part, and gentleman-like, with only an occasional tendency to be hot-tempered.
Parsons also has an occasional tendency toward fancy phrasing - a pile of rotting rats are described as "deliquescing meat."
'Apart from an occasional tendency to treat me like the ayah she had in India as a child, she's the perfect landlady.'