Sentence examples for precipitous tumble from inspiring English sources

And Atlantic City itself, a few miles away, was about to take a precipitous tumble.

So too did Facebook's messy public debut, which was marred by an embarrassing stumble on its first day and then a precipitous tumble in stock price.

That's been reflected in the stock market, which, even before last week's precipitous tumble, was nearly twenty-five per cent below its 2007 peak.

It's a precipitous tumble into the technique that defines The Seed Collectors, skipping from consciousness to consciousness so that it is never wholly obvious whose story this is.

Osborne, feted over the past five years as the key Conservative political strategist, has seen his stock take a precipitous tumble over the budget.

"The brilliance of Mr. Clooney's performance lies in his ability to convey indecision, hesitation and the precipitous tumble into error," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in November.

Matt in particular is overwhelmed, and sometimes paralyzed, by the necessity of choosing, and the brilliance of Mr. Clooney's performance lies in his ability to convey indecision, hesitation and the precipitous tumble into error.

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.