Word: faltered
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...fact, the only time the movie seems to falter is when it tries too hard to teach a lesson. The description of Francesca's altruism in sacrificing her desire for her responsibility suddenly reforms her children into believing that they must look for the passion in their lives...
...this irony, this self-awareness, has drained us. As the result of our creativity, we are left, my friends, in a world of wavering, accelerated only by our continued reliance on instrumental reason. We don't just waver. When looking for the answers, we stagger, stumble, falter and fumble. We are stuck. Even here at Harvard, my classmates, we've become tired of ambition and its costs. Yes, sitting here among us are some future senators, maybe a curator for the Met or the MFA, a few novelists and certainly some George Soroses. All right then, many George Soroses...
...truce approach can achieve. The company is a national treasure, the undisputed leader in a business now crucial to everybody's life. What Microsoft has yet to discover-and what the world is waiting to learn-is whether the qualities that brought about its triumphs will somehow make it falter...
...pages; $22), comes from a line of poetry written by Josa Mart?: "Dos patrias tengo yo: Cuba y la noche" (Two fatherlands have I: Cuba and the night). The implication being, and it is one the novel endorses, that when the sun goes down, principles crumble away, loyalties falter, certainties dissolve. The dichotomy and the dilemma are all the stronger, one imagines, if you are not a Cuban. Iyer, who occasionally writes essays for Time, conjures up Cuba as a kind of permanent night; for the foreign visitor it is enough merely to set foot in the country to experience...
...Travel writer andTIME essayist Pico Iyer's first novel portrays a Cuba where, when the sun goes down, principles crumble, loyalties falter and certainties dissolve. The story is of Richard, an American photographer who, over the course of five visits to Cuba starting in 1987, becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries and frustrations of the place. Chief among these is a Cuban girl named Lourdes, with whom Richard falls in love, and who is desparate to leave the island. TIME book reviewer William Boyd calls "Cuba and the Night" a "fine, rich and heady first novel...