So he understands the temptations and challenges of reworking Nabokov's writing for film: "He's a great storyteller, but it's difficult to capture Nabokov's rich qualities, like his prose style, on film".
Sunday: Sugar 12.30am BBC2 (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, 2008) This brilliant social-realist character study by the writer-directors of Half-Nelson looks at the temptations and challenges facing a sensitive, non-English-speaking youngster from the Dominican Republic when he arrives in Kansas in the hope of making it as a pro baseball player.
Perhaps too much is expected of academic drop-in-the-bucket interventions that apply a relatively few hours of symbolism towards a lifetime of ethical temptations and challenges.
Our pupils continue to remain in school despite the many temptations and challenges they face at home," adds Kanola.
But Knapp was determined not to follow in the footsteps of Scargill and the miners, despite temptations to challenge the Thatcher government policy towards the railways.
Beyond sabotaging the faltering reality genre even further, the special specifically challenged "Temptation Island" at its own game: voyeurism.
Resisting that temptation might be challenging if your statistics through 30 starts reek of underperformance: a 10-13 record, 5.08 earned run average and the most base runners allowed per nine innings (14.27) in the league.
You acknowledge at the outset that your trip (pun intended) may be full of challenges, temptations, and other potholes that could slow you down or send you back to the starting line.
Hosted by Alison Sweeney (Days of our Lives), the series provides the contestants with challenges, temptations, weigh-ins and eliminations until the final contestant remains to claim the title of "the biggest loser".
We see in this timeless tale our own challenges, temptations, fears and transforming loves.
