The Dunciad has become forbidding when it is truly a thing of delight and dark brilliance.
The Eagles are seeded first in the National Football Conference, and the cold and wind and noise can become forbidding at Veterans Stadium.
And because it can happen where children live, learn and play, familiar places like home or school can become forbidding and dangerous.
Watering your primroses, gasping away in their pre-Easter pots, became forbidden.
"But when the military took hold of the building, it became forbidden to mention the military.
After the bridge opened in 1916, the original coating lasted 60 years, largely because it was done with lead-based paint, which later became forbidden to use because of health risks.
Three and a half decades after the events, a cult Channel 4 drama is unlikely to have much impact on the grief felt by the living friends and relatives of Neave and Sykes and, if it ever became forbidden to speculate widely about the deaths of public figures, there would be large Kennedy and Diana-shaped holes in the British TV schedules.
In these forays into places where I did not belong, I felt perhaps a faint hint of what my father and my grandparents — as well as Zweig's mother, Ida Brettauer — had experienced after the Anschluss, as the whole city gradually became forbidden to them.
That book became forbidden fruit to me, stowed away on the highest shelf.
A few months later, under Muslim Arab pressure on the Turkish authorities in Jerusalem, Jews became forbidden by official decree to place benches and light candles at the Wall.
