Slowly, he had acclimated to the idea of a spirit world that occasionally intruded on his own.

The sound of traffic on Beach Road occasionally intruded, and the buffet breakfast (of cereal, rolls and fruit) didn't really tempt me.

Disabled War Veterans But reminders of the war occasionally intrude through eastern Nigeria's surface normality.

The cavalry of Zhao occasionally intruded into the state of Qi in campaigns against the state of Chu.

While the real world occasionally intrudes on "Babymother," it never stays long enough to dampen the movie's infectious party spirits.

A sense of clumsy newness (and some exposed screws) occasionally intruded during my stay in November.

Mr. Bergman was clearly troubled by the violence of the late 60's - the war in Vietnam occasionally intrudes on his characters' lives, as silent (and silently received) television images.

"Other matters occasionally intrude upon my attention," said Shimrod.

His only outlets are science fiction, the fantasies invented by his grandfather and some bizarre hallucination which occasionally intrude into his world.

People, animals and other natural furnishings occasionally intrude on these otherwise static scenes.