His non-appearance at the previous night's white tie V&A gala, held to open the museum's new exhibition of classic couture, suggested he was feeling the pressure, but he rose to the occasion with dresses which managed to look both delicate and hot-blooded, like ballerina costumes for a particularly passionate pas de deux.
Laboratory studies have demonstrated that when a stimulus is presented alone on a number of occasions, the ease with which fear (or indeed any other response) can subsequently be conditioned is impaired [ 28- 30].
The occasion on which, with all the dignity a failed rebel could muster, he laid his arms at Caesar's feet, has become a mythic image, one of the key moments in the history of the nation.
It seemed that Mr. Putin had taken off the gloves, as he had on earlier occasions with Ukraine, which depends on Russian gas supplies and industrial cooperation.
Mr. Dingell was offering up a historic symbol for a historic occasion on an issue with which he has long been associated.
Though it can sometimes feel like a glorified DVD extra, it's elevated by its subject's engagingly homey demeanour ("Holy mackerel!" he shouts on no less than five occasions), and the relish with which he spins a fount of tart, juicy anecdotes about colleagues.
Ultimately, it is an occasion on which Palace reflect with a nagging sense of regret.
It's Yom Kippur, the "holiest day of the year", says Sarah, which provides Transparent with another Jewish occasion around which to centre itself, and an opportunity for the eldest Pfefferman sibling to atone for her misdeeds.
The movie's punning title, which links the king's agonising impediment with the ritual occasion on which it was exposed to the public ear and eye, brought back memories of a lifetime, some amusing, some excruciating, some instructive, all contributing to the warp and weft of my character.
It's one of those movies defined in its locale and time scale by an occasion in which families, together with the odd interloper, gather for celebration and bloodletting at Christmas, Thanksgiving, an anniversary, a funeral or, as here, a wedding.
Brooke has written that it was almost a game with him a social occasion on which, surrounded by lawyers and real-estate consultants, he felt in a cheerful mood.
