Ori Brafman, author of "Click: The Magic of Instant Connections," explains why chance encounters occasionally blossom into lasting relationships.
Although the concept is encountered occasionally in early Pāli texts, its full implications were developed by the 2nd-century Indian philosopher Nāgārjuna.
But he heightens their drama by stressing Becket's flair for "set-piece encounters," occasionally adding a twist of sardonic humor.
Their encounters occasionally include other people, notably an arrogant rich kid played by Campbell Scott and a lonely, dog-loving schoolteacher (Peri Gilpin, who plays Frasier Crane's long-suffering producer on the popular NBC sitcom) to whom Paul is attracted.
Spread over 25 years my Letterman encounters, occasionally direct sometimes by proxy, were dominated by similar miscues, garbled intentions and remorse.
Random enemy encounters occasionally interrupt travel across the world map screen and hostile areas, as in other Final Fantasy related games.
As a kid, I was drawn to literature for precisely this reason: because it opened me up to a way of thinking, a way of feeling, that I might not otherwise have encountered, occasionally at great cost to myself.
Altered sensorium and focal neurologic deficit were encountered occasionally.
A defect that occurs during spermiogenesis, sharing of a single acrosome between two or more spermatids, was encountered occasionally in 2 of the 4 NCO deer.
Technical glitches such as forms freezing, forms not appearing, and difficulty in saving were encountered occasionally in all the EDC systems.
