(Sometimes it's less intentional but no less hurtful: moms write of their own experiences in a way that, if not intentionally calculated to cause pain, is so insensitive of audience that the only possible outcome is hurt feelings).
Others are less intentional, acting out of their own fears, insecurities and other emotional drives.
My favorite cross-connections, however, are the ones that seemed clearly less intentional.
Anonymity had been the theme for the Ireland players on Saturday, but for rather less intentional reasons.
Other shortcomings on display are maybe less intentional: the show's fluent analysis of race, class, and power does not extend — even briefly — to gender.
Puppet-show associations with Alwin Nikolais and Mummenschanz might be less intentional, yet that tradition of theatrical transformation is another specter here, too.
Racism is less intentional than in past decades, but just as insidious, says Imani Perry, a professor at Princeton's Center for African American Studies.
There is a double standard at work here, more nuanced and less intentional, but at the same time more insidious than what Rivlin confronted nearly four decades ago.
But there's a more curious, and certainly less intentional, link between the two: both titles invoke records, those clunky grooved discs that remain one of popular music's most peculiar symbols.
The tackle was reckless, and dangerous, even if it was less intentional than a far worse foul by the Chelsea defender David Luiz that had not been red-carded the previous evening.
In her most recent book, More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States, Perry says that racism is less intentional than in past decades, but just as insidious.
