He is a player within a larger play and succumbs to many pitfalls and pleasures, including the pleasures of war, along the way.
Dr. Moskos said the pitfalls of having leaders who do not share in the casualties of war were common knowledge in Homeric times: "Agamemnon was willing to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia," he said.
"Dr. Folkman's War" teaches us that the pitfalls of false hope are something only people without life-threatening disease have the luxury to contemplate.
In post-war Germany, an epistemological system that avoided the pitfalls of fascism and successfully unified systems of science and thought was perceived to be a progressive step.
Ms. Del Ponte's immediate predecessor, Louise Arbour, who indicted Mr. Milosevic while new war crimes were being committed in Kosovo, certainly recognized the pitfalls of retroactively turning news gatherers into tribunal agents in disguise.
Known as the Arrow, the system is designed to avoid the pitfalls of the American Patriot system, which Israelis say had little success in stopping Iraq's Scud missile attacks during the Persian Gulf war in 1991.
I know the pitfalls of the game.
There pitfalls of partnerships also came up.
Next from me: Pitfalls of passive construction.
Such are the pitfalls of nostalgia.
