I was engaged, by this debut novel by Susie Steiner, from the very first page.
This unusual debut engages the reader in a challenging dynamic, or a "changeling" dynamic, as Caitriona Lally might have it: the novel is filled with wordplay.
But love -- for a breathtakingly beautiful young Frenchwoman (Lamarr, in her American film debut), who is engaged to a wealthy man -- may draw him from his hiding place.
The reality star and Kanye West made their debut as an engaged couple at the Dream For Future Africa Foundation gala at Spago in Beverly Hills on Thursday night.
In her time with Solti at the Garden, she had engaged Dexter to make his opera debut staging Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini.
He managed to obtain permission to attend classes at the Imperial Ballet School, where he came to the notice of the ballet master, Antoine Titus, and made useful contacts that led to a debut and his being engaged at the Imperial Russian Ballet.
In 1891 he made his American debut in Chicago and was engaged by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he remained until 1901, winning great acclaim in Wagnerian roles, above all as Tristan.
Engaged by the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Lear made her opera debut as the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos in 1959 and in the same year sang Strauss's Four Last Songs in London at the Royal Festival Hall with Sir Adrian Boult.
The young cast, many making house debuts, took all in their stride and engaged fully, though the quality of singing does not quite reach top international levels.
The Yankees and the former Devil Rays have engaged in an unlikely rivalry since the Rays made their debut in 1998, fueled by Steinbrenner and Vince Naimoli, the Rays' managing general partner until 2005.
