It was a Moscow that Pasha Ivanov had helped to create, a shifting landscape of tectonic plates and lava flows and fatal missteps.

But watch out for the last 20 minutes: the plot abruptly veers into violent recriminations, delusions, a car accident and a fatal misstep on a mountain path.

There is now broad agreement that the tax increase was a fatal misstep that plunged Japan into recession.

How was it possible she had taken the fatal misstep which had sent her plunging down the stairs?

For all of its pathos, this is not a tragedy, for tragedies arise from some hero's fatal misstep, and no one here is either heroic or deluded.

And he made a fatal misstep.

If he could not count on Lokck Werrrent to accept Rada, then no Khagggun would, and he would indeed have made a fatal misstep.

And we walk on laboriously constructed paths that permit no fatal missteps.

It was here, at the time when a satisfactory end to the war seemed evident, that the Milanese took a fatal misstep.