1.   As usual in such cases, the victim has been blamed, but never was an operatic career so dogged by adverse circumstances.

2.   Every phase and aspect of his operatic career, he believes, is God-powered.

3.   Indeed, his initial decision to pursue an operatic career stemmed from his willingness to take a risk at the urging of a mentor.

4.   Ms. Blackwell does not believe that a six-month Broadway run will disrupt her operatic career.

5.   Nixon fell from on high only after low-level culprits, seeking to dodge potentially long jail terms, found new operatic careers in federal court.

6.   That Ramey finds himself a respected senior figure in opera is still sometimes surprising to him, for as a young man he never conceived of an operatic career.

7.   The routine and constant travel of an operatic career is wearying.

8.   Those very traits might seem to militate against a major operatic career, yet Ms. McNair has made her mark there, too.

9.   When he joined the Comedian Harmonists six years later, he viewed it as a temporary sidetrack to his operatic career.

10.   In World War II she pursued her operatic career, but also sang at troop concerts.