A brush with catastrophe, they say, does not make them run away from the office, but toward it.

But the brush with mortality makes us face all the truth we can bear.

Nobody wants to die but a brush with death makes you feel more intensely alive than ever.

The brush with death made them feel intensely alive.

"And the brush would have made Mosely's body hard to see."

Perhaps his last brush with the law made him reach bottom.

He touched the side of my face, and even the brush of his fingertips made me feel better.

It's amazing how a brush with death makes life so beautiful.

Sarah Palin's first brush with China has not made her many friends.

The brush made a soft, whispery noise, like her voice.