Indie cinema, or whatever you want to call it, will continue to live and die, but there won't be a real New Yorker, or at least a Hollywood fantasy version of one, around to claim credit or invite blame.
That could force it to make more wide-reaching calls about what to censor that would inevitably invite blame.
What is most poisonous about this campaign against affirmative action is that it invites whites to blame blacks for their problems.
"By blurring the distinction between a word's appearance in the dictionary and its status as standard English," Skinner writes, "the press release invited critics to blame Webster's Third for 'recognizing' every last silly, awkward, dialectal, jargonish or slang word it provided an entry for".
To defend this, she invites us to consider an ordinary case of blame, say the blame we feel for a politician who leads us into a disastrous war.
Twitter's spontaneity invites carelessness; and the minister duly blamed a sloppy aide.
It invites us to move away from grievance, disenchantment and blame, and towards the pursuit of the common good.
In Grandma's House, after Simon has been on his compassion course, he invites his father round so he can apologise for blaming him for destroying the family.
Or does she not blame him utterly because she blames herself equally, and so, with the same gesture, taunts him and implicitly invites him?
I was being invited to take the blame, or be the scapegoat, for the killing of Peter Connelly, presented as my 'public accountability'".
