Sentence examples for there were encounters from inspiring English sources

There were encounters with police, but Mayor Bloomberg can be confident that these are not violent people.

At each point, there were encounters with more memories from our past revealed by strange figures like a rabbit-masked man in a suit leading us through rainy downtown alleys, a homeless shaman who used his lighter to burn away certain words written in flammable ink in our book to show the next step, and a quartet of masked men serenading us on the street.

But then there are encounters like his kitchen-table conversation with a Cedar Rapids couple, Jason and Ali McLaughlin.

There are encounters – with Angela Merkel and Barack Obama – that one longs to know the truth about.

Though there are encounters with the miraculous, Govinda was no kind of mystagogue and his prose is lucid and beautiful.

And there are encounters with herself: recollections of failed relationships, failed jobs, and failed attempts at fiction.

There are family lunches and encounters at parties, in which Jack is called upon to explain and explain away his Jewishness, and there are encounters on the street with former sexual partners: encounters managed with no little drollery and sophistication.

There are encounters with locals who are as suspicious of writers as they are of Argentineans and are utterly bemused by Stevens's project.

On his further walks, hearing music from near and far, there are encounters with strangers, mostly migrants, the powerless living under the shadow of power.

There are encounters between avatars online, there are guns, there are postmodern jokes gussied up as characters – and when, as it often does, the writing gleams with intuition and real wisdom, the madcappery seems all the more baffling and cheap.

"The network becomes saturated when there are encounters".