This explosion, Anna thinks later, was "in retrospect something very small, something that might occur within just a square inch or two of a Breughel, but it set fire to the rest of my life".
"A FATHER attempting to murder a boy, a daughter trying to attack a father, is in retrospect something very small," Michael Ondaatje writes about halfway through his new novel, "Divisadero", "something that might occur within just a square inch or two of a Breughel".
Now some feared that, despite the confession and the overwhelming forensic evidence, something similar might occur in the Roof trial.
Just as the "recall" of a bogus event lights up the brain's memory centers, so does thinking about something that might occur.
A number of start-ups have grown out of the TechShop location in Silicon Valley, and the hope is that something similar might occur in Detroit.
Almost everyone who has ever been in a modern-art museum has had the experience of staring at some concoction — blobs of color, a mash-up of metals — and thinking the cliché: "But is it art?" Something similar might occur to viewers of "Turkey Bowl," a quirky offering by Kyle Smith that does nothing more or less than show a touch-football game among friends.
These facilitating substances also occur naturally, or (in just a few instances) are reasonably similar to something that might occur naturally.
Maybe, just maybe, something positive might occur.
I had an inclination of something that might occur when she took out a book on Buddhist wisdom.
With her magical paper sculptures, she takes the idea of decorating to a whole new level, something that might occur if you handed the task of decorating the Christmas tree to the offspring of Mandelbrot and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.
