Trading service breaks and sharp ground strokes, the two battled evenly through both sets until Núñez yielded each time, faltering under Gomez's withering attack.
As always, the short-sketch format means that it's hard to have a bad time -- faltering sketches get a quick hook and it's on to the next -- and equally hard to be surprised, or to feel a sense of dramatic development over an evening of unrelated highs and lows.
"Shadow of the Vampire" at times falters in finding a tone and a narrative line adequate to its central ideas.
"While the demand for electricity is soaring, the reliability of our electric grid is, at times, faltering," he said in a statement.
But when presented with chances to throttle back on the exploding subprime market, guard against predatory lending and reel in mortgage brokers and lenders, Mr. Cuomo several times faltered and backed down, interviews and records show.
Of course, movement is slow and at times faltering, but in the last few years we have seen Saudi Arabia consider a semi-electoral system for municipal government, and the emirates of Qatar and Bahrain have moved toward being constitutional monarchies with an increased role for their parliaments.
Yahoo's Yang, at times faltering and barely audible even at the mike, said that the revelations in the Shi Tao case run "counter to all my personal and professional beliefs". He reiterated the company's position: "We continue to believe in engagement in markets like China". In other words, some Internet for China's millions of potential users is better than none at all.
To do so, however, is to cast an unjustly harsh judgment on someone who, like the rest of us, is human and, like the rest of us, has at times faltered.
The only time she falters in this belief is when her husband, the urban outsider, arrives in Westish.
The only time King falters in making the case for Tobacco Free Portfolios is in making the case for herself.
We must be as sharp and focused as she is, to hold her to account in the Brexit negotiations and offer alternative, progressive plans each time she falters.
