Why risk fading into obscurity and beckoning forth the debt-collectors, when you can go out with a stylish bang and break up your practice instead, boy-band style?
As 11 years turned into 12, to 15, to 20, to 25, the beckoning light of outside somehow became dimmer.
Such latencies will have to come down considerably if the next generation of internet applications, such as telepresence, high-definition video streaming and remote surgery, are to fulfil their promise.The future is beckoning.
America's money politics, the target of another editor's valedictory in 1993, looks ever grubbier and more feudal, with a Bush v Clinton contest beckoning in 2016.The only way to feel good about American democracy is to set it beside Brussels.
Actually, since my Auckland childhood, I've been of that mind; jolly red suit aside, Santa's sinister mechanical wink, tight mirthless mouth and beckoning come-hither finger (which has cracked, and bears a large bandage) make him look like an old man children should avoid.
At the height of her fame Hollywood was beckoning.
Such statements may reassure voters, but they are unlikely to make Germany a more appealing place to do business, particularly with investor-friendly central European countries beckoning firms to relocate.From the point of view of a German politician, alas, all policy choices must look bad.
Mr Obama had a great conversion story to tell he was the child of agnostic parents who had "felt God's spirit beckoning me" as a young man and had been baptised at the age of 26.
Cyberpirates want an internet for everyone, and so-called biopirates ignore laws on DNA manipulation with the aim of beckoning in genetic engineering for all.
Refugees became entrepreneurs backed by government-guaranteed loans, the germ of later schemes to promote enterprise through credit.By the late 1950s full employment elsewhere pushed German industry towards Bavaria's beckoning arms.
The other is of a beckoning light at the end of a tunnel.
