And yet, and yet … One doesn't want to be precipitous about this – far from it – but are we perhaps nearing the point in Britflick history where that assumption might be gently queried?
For example, there he was last week at NATO's Atlantic headquarters in Norfolk, Va., repeating that he would consult, consult and consult some more before doing anything precipitous about pulling troops out of the Balkans.
From what he saw in class, Mr. Neustadt said, Mr. Gore "is not afraid of decisions, but not precipitous about it, either, like the early Harry Truman saying, 'How many decisions did I make today?' " "In terms of the originality of his mind, I would probably have called him a good Group Two student, not a Group One student".
Hutter, the Jonathan Harker figure, is all doltish energy and precipitous rushing about, always active and never effective; his wife, Ellen, responds with a resigned and somnambulant grace.
In an article headlined "For star director of 'Spider-Man,' a precipitous fall," about the firing of director Julie Taymor from the Broadway production, The New York Times overstates the case -- vastly -- when it characterizes Ms. Taymor's fall from artistic genius to "girl falling from the sky" as "the stuff of Greek drama".
In his excellent critique of the game, Brendan Keogh asserts Desert Golfing is more about crossing a landscape with the unique physics of its soft dunes, weird peaks, and precipitous recesses than it is about golf.
Cessna, a unit of Textron, has seen the average daily use of its Citation fleet of business jets stabilize at about 6.5 hours, after a precipitous plunge from about 9 hours at the height of the boom in 2008.
Precipitous cliffs, often about 1,000 feet (300 metres) high, characterize much of the north coast.
Importantly too, despite press portrayals of precipitous professionals, decisions about the child's future were within normal timeframes and entirely consistent with good practice.
Then again, the top of Arthur Ashe's precipitous stands is about 9,000ft above sea level, so it's bound to be a bit parkier up there.
There will be a precipitous fall of about two feet at St . Louistoward the end of the year, when the reservoirs up the Missouri River, as scheduled every year, stop releasing water into the Mississippi.
