They also have to fill in for the big guy himself when the occasional brushes with small-town America are a little too close for comfort.

My occasional brushes with office work leave me filled with inarticulate rage.

Never, or only when the consequences do not go beyond an occasional brush with anti-Semitism?

His occasional brushes with Kelly remain tense.

He worked at odd jobs and had occasional minor brushes with the law, including a marijuana charge and traffic violations.

During my own occasional brushes with sanity I'd begun wondering if she really was the girl for me.

In the others she could see a look of fear, the occasional brush of panic.

But productions have been running away since cinema began, part of the allure being, of course, the occasional brush with the exotic.

Ron admits that they may have an occasional brush with the law, but, we're not rebels.

But the school, with an enrollment this fall of 929, basks in its occasional brushes with fame.