From such a pinnacle, convincing the Street the best is yet to come will be no mean feat.
But this "Onegin," which opens the Met's season on Monday, has taken an unusually precipitous tumble from sure thing — a pinnacle of Russian music, featuring the most eminent Russian soprano and Russian conductor of our time, in a production by a widely admired theater director making her Met debut — to headache-plagued.
In a meadow at the edge of the garden, overlooking a gentle bend in the Thames, he recently erected a pinnacle from the roof of the College Chapel at Eton. "I thought I'd leave something behind," he said of the architectural fragment, which sits on a pedestal engraved with a Latin inscription explaining that both the pinnacle and Mr. Gibbs himself were expelled from Eton.
We can just about forgive the Bullingdon Club member who explains away his money-burning and wanton destruction of property as shameful juvenile behaviour, who recasts his errors as raucous childish idiocy that he learned from before he became a pinnacle of traditional morality.
A pinnacle is distinguished from a finial by its greater size and complexity and from a tower or spire by its smaller size and subordinate architectural role.
In another case, Erica Martinez, who lives in a Pinnacle building in Washington Heights, received a $1,317.83 rent credit from Pinnacle after the State Department of Housing and Community Renewal ruled that she had been overcharged.
One is the huge amount of new information resulting from an undeniable shift of so-called classical music from the pinnacle of a cultural pyramid to a more side-by-side status with ethnic and popular music.
To record a video from the Pinnacle Video Transfer to a portable thing, like the PSP and the iPods, such as iPod, iPod Nano.
The new PCTV HD Pro Stick from Pinnacle, an external high-definition television tuner for PCs, which is about the size of an index finger, could not exist if its chip had not been improved and miniaturized.
Now, almost five years after a stroke felled him from the pinnacle of power and popularity and condemned him to vegetative existence in a sterile hospital room, he is back at the ranch.
