I suspect that my father would have remained cheerfully impervious to it, whereas I find myself making use of the argument from time to time, not just to win a political point but to feel further ensnared by those seductions of Camelot that a half century before I covertly craved and loyally resisted.
While BSKs seldom bite humans, the snake that bit the young fisherman was probably stressed and felt threatened after getting ensnared in the trawling net.
He felt the magic with which she had ensnared him throb in his veins.
It is possible to identify with both of them — and to feel an empathetic twinge as they are ensnared in the consequences of their own heedlessness — without entirely liking either one.
Men ensnared in abusive relationships may feel, with some justification, that they will not be believed if they report the violence.
The bosses of Japan's other big securities firms could well be ensnared in the scandal.Why did Nomura feel the need to make pay-offs?
The pardon has deepened the disgust that many Peruvians feel toward mainstream politics, after a graft scandal involving Brazilian builder Odebrecht has ensnared two former presidents in the past year.
It is years since I last read it, but certain phrases are as familiar and dear to me as holy writ; not least when I feel – as Jane so often felt – diminished, uncertain, torn between irreconcilable imperatives: "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will".
And for an adoptee, which I am, reminders of family life are not so much about being chosen as feeling kept, enveloped, even ensnared in the beautiful torture and chaos of ties that are supposed to bind – to feel known and related to these people whom you may not like all the time, but who you feel comprise the strange, complicated backdrop of your existence.
IT was telling this fall, when athletes in track and field, professional baseball and football were ensnared in a drug scandal involving a previously undetectable high-tech steroid called THG, that the athletes felt little need to defend their actions.
