If Rudy is the architect of Arethusa, then it will be essentially impossible to break, except for rare lapses such as this funeral business.
In a rare lapse of hospitality, the loo is also the only place in the show house where you will not find books.
But he suffered a rare mental lapse in front of 15,822 fans on Friday night.
It showed in his oversleeping the day before, a rare lapse for someone who took pride in never having to set an alarm.
It's not the rare lapses in Lane's wit, though, that make him fall just short of being a great film critic.
The failure amounts to a rare lapse in our policy of distributing beneficence among neighbors to the south.
The tiny athlete believes her rare lapse in Tokyo was just a temporary blip in a career of major championship success.
But that simply turned out to be a rare lapse for the Bills on this night.
He noticeably dropped the prediction of victory that slipped out yesterday in a rare lapse of discipline.
It's a rare lapse that his editor should have caught.