Sentence examples for rather precipitous from inspiring English sources

"Almost Famous" is pushed into rough narrative coherence by the emotional triangle involving writer, groupie and star, which culminates in a rather precipitous set of crises.

Years of ascension, soaring anticipation, followed by a plateau -- which is not so bad, really -- and then, no way to sugarcoat this: a rather precipitous decline.

After a rather precipitous decline in the 1960's when effective antidepressant drugs became available, ECT since the 1980's has experienced something of a comeback, and is used primarily in these circumstances: When rapid reversal of a severe or suicidal depression is needed.

You may find it swift and decisive rather than precipitous.

The changes are gradual, rather than precipitous, said Brenda Eskenazi, director of the Center for Children's Environmental Health Research at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yet Mr. Zell does not blame the heavy debt burden for Tribune's failure, but rather the precipitous dive in newspaper advertising that occurred just after he bought the media company and the staff's intransigence.

fter "Gunslinger" there's a precipitous, rather mysterious, falling off in the quality of Dorn's poetry, from roughly 1974 on.

"Green shoots have sprung up in many sectors, convincing us that the current slowdown looks more and more like a slow consolidation, rather than a precipitous downturn like we saw in 2008-9," Xianfang Ren, a China analyst at IHS Global Insight in Beijing, wrote in a research note.

These results suggest that sensitivity to odorant-induced POC activity in block-design experiments can be optimized by modeling an early phasic response followed by a precipitous rather than specific exponential decrease to baseline levels.

Abbas indicated at the weekend that negotiators would consult the Arab League if there was no extension to the freeze, rather than make a precipitous walkout.

That's a precipitous fall; but it takes on a rather different character when you look at it in the context of the last five months, since the Liberal Democratic party's Shinzo Abe became prime minister.