Jong-Fast's fondness for put-downs infuses her descriptive powers to more felicitous - and occasionally hilarious - effect.

We watch Max stumble along in a fog of confusion and denial, making occasionally hilarious efforts to cover his tracks.

E*Trade, in contrast, introduced ads that aimed to be young and hip, and occasionally hilarious.

The reader who is willing to accompany Mehta on this journey, on the other hand, will become immersed in stories that make for poignant and occasionally hilarious reading.

Geoffrey B. Charlesworth's essays are a glorious mix of sophisticated how-to information and dispassionate, occasionally hilarious observations that reveal the arrogance and insecurities of gardeners.

The personal anecdotes that spill off every page of "Global Woman" are heartbreaking, infuriating, dramatic and occasionally hilarious.

Ty Burr of The Boston Globe wrote: "The movie's a pleasant and occasionally hilarious ride, even if there's a bait-and-switch at its core."

It's a minor work, however, and it's coupled with Domenico Scarlatti's brief "Dirindina," an occasionally hilarious comedy of even less musical interest.

The reader is "immersed in stories that make for poignant and occasionally hilarious reading."

Writing in The Times of London, Benedict Nightingale awarded it four out of five stars and pronounced it "always funny, occasionally hilarious."