Though Mr. Thomas's performance is longer on bravado than subtlety (and occasionally marred by an excessively plummy accent), it is carefully and consistently thought out.

A curious doggedness occasionally marred the dancing in all the presentations of the Argentine troupe.

Ms. Leaming's biography, occasionally marred by her bedazzlement with Welles - she tended to quote trivial remarks as gems - left room for a more detached account.

Those limitations occasionally marred their solo sets, where recent album selections were shuffled in with college radio hits.

A walk through the old town will reveal narrow streets and interesting alleys interspersed with grand Maisons de Maître although occasionally marred by unsympathetic renovations.

Only the guards were stopping the furious jabs in as fast a fray as could be witnessed; but the blood that was occasionally marring the duel came from Talcott.

Lipper's writing is often prosaic and occasionally marred by clichés.

His plays, though occasionally marred by his characteristic propensity for dramatic violence of thought and language, constitute in many respects his best work.

Sectarian tensions have long been a cause of conflict at football matches in Northern Ireland, and crowd trouble occasionally marred games involving Linfield throughout the twentieth century.

His statesmanship, though marred occasionally by personal vanity and love of popular applause, was far-seeing and prudent.