His poison is partly diluted by a self-awareness that periodically breaks through the pose.

A few middle-school students, not much older than twelve or thirteen, were gathered around a computer, talking in tones of hushed excitement, periodically breaking into giggles.

Traditional comic dramas employed a pair of performers engaged in conversation and only periodically breaking the forth wall.

(Bollywood, the Bombay-based equivalent of Hollywood, is known for its highly dramatic films wherein characters periodically break into song.)

Cruise ship passengers periodically break legs, have heart attacks and suffer many of the same physical and medical problems as landlubbers.

He paid close attention to his young wife, Grace, while I made conversation with her, and he periodically broke into giggles for no apparent reason.

Late in the night, the sounds of gunshots periodically broke the quiet of the capital's darkened streets.

Many of these conflicts stay at the level of intelligence and special operations, but periodically break into major conflict.

The Moose: cautious interloper encountered up north, who periodically breaks wind in U.S. version.

As the sun heats the ground, pockets of warm air form which periodically break away and rise upwards in a column.