Walking through the squalid neighborhood meant weaving around piles of used, often bloody needles and, on occasion, stepping over a dead body.
But he was always the ultimate impact cricketer, somebody who on so many occasions stepped up to the plate.
The premise occasions steps into the violent side of tango, rude gangsters, a saucy madam, and a knife fight, but, while the dancing is slick and skilled, the stagy aesthetic vitiates any emotional or imaginative impact.
However, Lewis has on occasions stepped back to look at the big picture in a book that is strange, oddly engaging and breathtaking in its uncovering of the magnificently trivial and the deeply profound".
Maggie is usually frightened and exasperated by Homer's attempts to bond with her, but has on several occasions stepped in to save Homer's life: once from drowning, once from being shot by mobsters, once from being kidnapped by a tow truck driver, and once from being shot by Russ Cargill, head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
So this is a good occasion to step way back to understand just how good the banks have it today.
Evan Osnos: Today was the first truly warm day of the year here in Beijing, which is always an occasion to step outside and see how everything fared through the winter.
Like a stonecutter taking in his unfinished frieze, Mr. Kushner would use each occasion to step back and size up his work, to listen to how his own words spoke to him, culminating in his decision to expand the piece into an epic-length, multi-character play.
While the development of the subject of catalysis may not be linear with time, involving, on occasion, massive step changes, in my view the best way to project to what will happen in the next eight years is to extrapolate what has happened over the past eight years.
On one occasion he stepped up to the doorman and asked for an explanation.
