It is one of the world's crueler realities that life regularly intrudes on our finest dreams.

But sometimes his past life intrudes his safe domain.

Dream factories are just that, however: life intrudes.

Sometimes real life intrudes on Twitter time.

Real life has finally intruded into Martino's fantasy.

Nobody can predict whether real life will intrude on the Super Bowl today.

But something happened along the way: life intruded on our little N.F.L. world.

HE had started painting as a young man, but life intruded.

Var knew that life intruded wherever it could, and should be found in a protected place like this.

And daily life always intrudes less when one has, as Smith did, an independent income.