Sentence examples for bad occasion from inspiring English sources

The whole craft and business of bad occasion.

I was missing Sam, who had soothing words for every bad occasion.

Still a final is a particularly bad occasion on which to make a key mistake.

Be careful not to heighten the relevance of one bad occasion and apply it to your general impression of social interactions; focus as much as possible on all of the social interactions that you have enjoyed, that have worked out just fine, no matter how bland or ordinary.

While Beijing made strenuous efforts to clean up its air in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics, the city still suffers from terrible smog, so bad on occasion that it forces the airport to shut and envelops everything in a thick, choking haze.

He also happens to be sweet on Marcus's younger sister, Syd (Gabrielle Union), an undercover federal agent who is mixed up in their case, and whose abduction by the chief bad guy occasions the unauthorized invasion of Cuba at the end of the movie.

For didn't those with bad intent on occasion happen to stand beside the good, the innocent, or the underaged?

Every team is victimized by a close call, even a bad call, on occasion; it's how teams respond to it that matters most.

Russian pronunciation of German – and yes, we are fine ones to talk – can be particularly hazardous for singers, but was not bad on this occasion.

Baylor is epitomized by its leading scorer, Perry Jones, III, who was good enough last year, as a freshman, to earn a cover story from the Times Magazine, and is bad enough, on occasion, to score two points and seven points, respectively, in the Bears' first two tournament games.

In the 26 essays included here -- concentrating on major 20th-century authors like Franz Kafka, Joseph Brodsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, A. S. Byatt, Naguib Mahfouz, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer -- Coetzee wields a sharp scalpel, carefully exposing the stylistic flaws, theoretical shortcuts and, on occasion, bad faith of writers he otherwise admires.