He poses the key question: "Can autocrats enter the liberal international order without succumbing to the forces of liberalism?" If the answer is no, that would be a pretty good reason to try to ensnare them in it.
Their personalities, their beliefs, their decision making, their hubris or lack of it: none of this matters when the enemy is an implacable and inhuman foe like the Killer Vines, who not only try to ensnare all of Mr. Smith's characters, but also succeed in choking his novel to death.
By David Remnick "Fauda" follows an undercover Israeli unit trying to ensnare a terrorist mastermind.
His testimony opened a window on the dangerous work done by undercover detectives and what they think and feel as they skulk through neighborhoods, trying to ensnare drug dealers or prostitutes.
When the two men go for a drink, it is the bumptious David who tries to ensnare a lustrous blonde at the bar, but it is Brandon whom she seeks out later that night.
Common sense dictates that if one is trying to ensnare a juicy freshman fly in one's web of torrid drama, the approach should be enticing, even irresistible, and the payoff staggering.
As Falstaff sings "Che giornataccia nera" ("What a black, bad day"), the strings play a prowling motif associated with Wagner's emasculated magician Klingsor, who tries to ensnare Parsifal in his flower-maiden garden.
Firmly rooted in a hyper-desirable advertising demo – the 18- to 35-year-old male with disposable income – bros are a strong part of the audience that most popular entertainment is trying to ensnare.
On the 1954 cast recording of "Peter Pan" there is a revealing duet, "Oh, My Mysterious Lady," when Martin, as Peter, pretending to be a beautiful woman bedecked in scarves, tries to ensnare Captain Hook (Cyril Ritchard).
Despite his wariness of honeytraps ("it's easier to believe that a woman finds you irresistible than that she is trying to ensnare you"), Michel falls for Helen, his housemate at a bedsit in London's Tufnell Park.
When they weren't trying to ensnare him in their feuds or drinking up all his wine or warning him away from temples supposedly guarded by huge man-eating serpents, the local people must certainly have found Belzoni a source of great amusement.
