But the cold war intruded, and the proposal died.

But even in the sanctuary of the apartment he shares with his mother, a pair of nesting finches and some goldfish, the war intrudes.

In his letters he often said that the war did not intrude on him.

The war with Iraq, which has battered European unity, intruded at every turn.

As their stay drags on, the war increasingly intrudes on their lives of wary leisure.

Only once does war intrude into the idealized world that Hitler tried to preserve in the art he collected.

However, the war intruded again, and several of the young men who had begun attending received their conscription notices and were forced to leave.

I suspect the only reason they intervened in '67 was because the war intruded on their home territory.

With his military background, I'm sure the war intruded on his concentration.

The war also intrudes on Ivory's attempt to seduce Caro.