It's only when you're faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?
It could be the Grand Duchess of Gérolstein singing "J'aime les Militaires" ("I love military men": here the women certainly do, and so, it emerges, do some of the military men), La Périchole's famous tipsy aria, and the Venetian carnival scene from "The Tales of Hoffmann".
"When we initially did this," says Rob Schoeben, senior director of marketing at WebTV, "we said: 'We're going to turn the television into something else'".But Americans, it emerged, did not want their television turned into something else.
No, he wouldn't want to be richer, he says, though it emerges he does spend $100 a week on lottery tickets.
It was Greenberg who encouraged her to get down to work, beginning in the summer of 1944; although Gill claims that he also read each chapter of her book as it emerged, this does not seem likely.
Over the next couple of days, it emerges that Twitter doesn't charge advertisers for text ads.
Having kept quiet about the story for 50 years, when it emerged it did so in spectacular fashion on the programme That's Life.
Suzanne Greenaway was appointed assistant deputy coroner in inner north London in 2009 by Dr Reid but she stood down in November after it emerged she did not have the correct qualifications.
Ms Greenaway took on the role of assistant deputy coroner in July 2009 but stepped down in November when it emerged she did not have the requisite five years' experience in the Law Society.
The 20-year-old was nearly deported last year after it emerged he did not have the right paperwork to be living in England.
