Sentence examples for except on those occasions from inspiring English sources

Louella O. Parsons and Hedda Hopper, in their syndicated newspaper columns, wrote benevolently of the stars except on those occasions when a star crossed one of them or the studios wanted an insubordinate actor publicly punished.

No, not particularly, except on those occasions when I breathe in too deeply and choke on my own decadence.

Updike stands as an object of worship to both Raine and Wolcott, a model of what can be done, except on those occasions when magnanimity limits honesty – cardinal virtue of any critic.

Throughout the last six months of his life, I called Harry on Sundays to discuss his life and art, except on those occasions when he was too sick to talk.

And the principal thing I learned was how to make them feel at ease around me. Except, of course, on those occasions when one can't.

Except on those rare occasions where Jack Reed got a word in edgewise, no one had anything discouraging to say about a candidate who wants to extend the failed policies of the past eight years.

And every semester — except on those rare occasions when the subject of the class has been too narrowly focussed to include Mavis Gallant's fiction — I have taught at least one, sometimes two, of her stories.

Proudly stating that he retains the beliefs he held as a civil rights lawyer and the first president of the American Civil Liberties Union chapter in Hartford, he seems always to find for poor against rich, individual against institution, accused against state - except on those rare occasions when the law as he reads it makes that impossible.

Except on those few occasions.

Except on those rare occasions where I'm dehydrated and my bladder isn't ready to burst, I personally can't have morning sex unless I scurry to the bathroom first, anyway.

She's unrelievedly petty and pouting, someone whose enormous talent is in total shreds -- except on the occasions she's able to go on songbird automatic-pilot.