This is too dark.'… It's a cautionary tale about how careful you need to be and how tricky it is striking the right balance between tone and originality and freshness and wit and fun versus camp.
Having had my own time in another culture as a young Peace Corps Volunteer in 1970s Sierra Leone, I'm aware of how tricky it is to make assumptions about those who live differently than we do.
One thing that struck reviewers who were grappling with Blackstar, David Bowie's final album, was how tricky it was to interpret lyrically.
"I'm just learning how tricky that is," he remarked, "to give someone a book, even if they ask for it".
Not out of pity, but seeing how tricky life is and how hard it is to make the right choices".
Instead, what Japan gave the world in the late 1980s was a lesson in how tricky it is to rebalance economies.
But for now, sadly, however progressive the Silicon Valley move may seem, it's further reminder of how tricky it is for the rest of us.
Cafe X, the robotic barista, has proved to be an object lesson in how tricky it is to automate even simple-sounding service jobs.
Like the others, he sounded lost on the slow parts, which is where you can really see how tricky it is to sing with an orchestra.
And the recent flip-flop in American intelligence assessments should remind us just how tricky it is to figure out what another country is really after.
