Bentham's Panopticon, a circular structure with an all-seeing guardhouse in the middle, was meant to show that surveillance was as powerful a method of control as shackles and door locks — an idea that has proved enticing to many an academic, though it was never built.
The convergence of these two impressive rivers has proved enticing to settlers for thousands of years.
The clever mix of real-playing strategy and Tinder proved enticing.
The fascination, in some quarters, with the PBS British period drama "Downton Abbey" has proved enticing to publishers, Julie Bosman writes.
The mines -- expendable to Anglo, a corporate behemoth with considerable overhead costs that demand high margins -- proved enticing to the Harmony Gold Mining Company.
In August, Microsoft told climate change activists that it was dropping its support because ALEC's stance on climate change and several other issues "conflicted directly with Microsoft's values". ALEC's Communications and Technology Task Force, of which Google and Microsoft were a part, has developed proposals that may have proved enticing to tech companies.
For a tablet that started out with a premium price, the deal proved enticing to many buyers.
The simplicity of using embryonic forms to reconstruct phylogenetic trees proved enticing to researchers in the early years following publication of Darwin's Origin.
Amazon's approach has proved enticing to behind-the-scenes talent.
Shorter runs have also proved enticing for a greater number of film actors this season.
The continuing funding inequity between LEAs, but also between secondary and primary, must be resolved, and it remains to be seen whether the new salary structure will be sustainable in many primary schools and whether it will prove enticing enough to the male colleagues we need in the classroom.
