If settings of Tennessee Williams or F. Scott Fitzgerald falter out of excessive respect for the originals (among other reasons), operas like Rossini's "Donna del Lago" — which opened in a new production at New York City Opera on Thursday — appropriate distinguished literary names like Sir Walter Scott's and cheerfully reduce their writing to opera's usual "You Jane, me Tarzan" dimensions.
"I've watched people falter, fall out, get frazzled and freak out but all the hiccups have washed over me.
The pilot, who was praised by superiors for safely ditching the F-16C Falcon after the engine faltered, bailed out and sustained minor injuries.
Both Mr. Pellegrini and Sihan Shu, a managing director at Paulson, testified that the firm was interested only in wagering that home loans would falter, wiping out the value of debt instruments built from those mortgages.
If China's'social capitalism' falters, watch out for an internal explosion.
The media loves nothing as much as a great political flame-out, and Perry faltering on the debate stage was just the right amount of catnip to touch off a frenzy of feline yowling.
Perhaps Strauss-Kahn will ride in as the white knight from Washington with his reputation enhanced by the IMF's role in bailing out faltering economies without the opprobrium that stuck to it in its 1990s rescue packages.
However, since his party's landslide Dec. 16 victory, he has played down confrontation with Asian neighbors, and instead focused his agenda on lifting Japan's faltering economy out of recession ahead of upper house elections next summer.
In 1940, the faltering Mr. Livermore brought out his own book, "How to Trade in Stocks".
She lays out her faltering relationship with her father, the breakdown of her parents' marriage and her own explorations of sexuality on the page in glorious illustrations.
