As performed by an orchestra and choir from the Sai Anantam Ashram, along with Mr. DeJohnette and the bassist Reggie Workman, the music nodded promisingly toward polyphony but ultimately faltered into vagueness.
With the start of November sweeps, Fox faltered into a sixth-place finish on Thursday behind both CW and Univision, whose broadcast of the Latin Grammy Awards delivered 5.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen's estimates.
Then a lone, throbbing note in the strings falters into nothingness.
Sundial is concise but never falters into monotony.
I know her "BeyHive" will buzz and sting when they read this, but I encourage them to think for themselves for a change and not falter into the defense.
Although the company had quickly traversed what Silicon Valley's entrepreneurs like to call "the valley of death"—the risky financial period between receiving initial venture funding and beginning to earn revenues it badly faltered in turning its operations into a viable, long-term business.
But Germany, which had rising levels of new orders in 2010, even as some other European countries faltered, fell into negative territory in mid-2011 and has stayed there.
Hamilton remembered his wife and friends, snatching at lyrical scraps from earlier songs as his coherence dissipated, the words forming a fractured, evanescent reprise, until he faltered and fell into silence.
Cubism and the related movements of Futurism, Constructivism, Suprematism, and Neoplasticism, like any artistic styles, might have faltered and fallen into a merely decorative cliché, as at the Paris Exposition of 1925, but for Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.
"The thing about Jay was that he never faltered, never caved into corporate involvements," said Danielle Bostick, co-founder of the World Cup Skateboarding company that oversees major competitions.
Already, Singapore Technologies has bought a share in a promising Silicon Valley chip company, Sierra Semiconductors; made a faltering entry into the personal computer market, and dipped into joint ventures in everything from telephone switching software to jet engines.
