Elsewhere they can simply be pleasingly appropriate, as near the end of David Copperfield when David, on a prison tour, encounters the novel's two servile villains, Uriah Heep and Steerforth's butler Littimer, in adjacent cells.
When I told a cousin that I was taking my daughter to look at U.S. colleges this spring she sent me a DVD of "The Sopranos" episode in which Tony, embarking on a similar tour, encounters a former associate and strangles him with a length of wire while his daughter is visiting Colby.
Going into the match, Barker had won just one of their 19 PSA Tour encounters, his sole success coming in the semi-final of the same tournament in 2011 where he won 3-1.
After prevailing in a closely-contested third set, Verdasco eased through the fourth in just 30 minutes to seal victory in the pair's first-ever tour encounter.
At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, Molly Ringwald sat down with L.A. Times staff writer Carolyn Kellogg to discuss her book of short stories, "When It Happens to You," surprising tour encounters and the new book she's starting.
At the start of our tour, we encountered the Hands-Free Bridge of Doom (though I gripped my two safety lanyards for dear life).
The group of 10, including three herders who acted as porters, two cooks and a tour guide, encountered an avalanche, which killed an Australian and the three local herders.
Throughout our tour we encountered what Karanth calls his "camera traps -- Muybridge-like cameras perched along the roadside equipped with night-time motion detectors that trip the shutter whenever an animal walks by and "trap" it in the form of a photograph.
On his Western tours he encountered interest in the sarangi because of its similarity to cello and violin.
In this version, which Mr. Kelly performed on his most recent tour, he encounters a hostile priest ("Sinner, go away!"), his mother's ghost ("Son, you can't believe in man") and finally God himself ("Behold, it is I!").
