It is tempting to keep uncovering facts, all of them interesting.

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet oil pipeline blew up in an explosion so huge that the American military suspected a nuclear blast. A quarter of a century later, the incident serves as an object lesson in successful cyber warfare.

"When cyber-vigilantism comes along, people slide under the radar and they release things, thinking that they are untraceable."

I decided I had to get real and take on gophers face-to-face, so to speak.

It’s not about arguments, it’s about emotions. It’s about patriotism.

And that’s interesting: all the more so because Dutch people aren’t patriotic as such. We seldom encounter people who are that patriotic. The French and the Americans are both very patriotic, and that always fascinates and, yes, entertains us, at the same time.

I don't wear a hijab, nor am I Muslim, but textiles fascinate me.

Do not try to teach a child any lessons on an airplane. This is not the time to square off about limit setting. This is a time for distraction and entertainment.

It is tempting to adduce an ancestral hostility between man and wolf. But this is a problem in economics. What this is really about is a competition between two top predators -- man and wolf -- for elk.

Some were crushed to death; others were killed when one of the guardrails broke, sending many in the crowd plunging headlong into the river far below.

Instead of plunging headlong towards new-fangled ideas, today's politicians should take a tip from their predecessors and opt for tried-and-tested methods such as marketplace soapbox speeches.

These are flags wrapped in the flag, so to speak, and constitute a particularly sleazy form of flag exploitation.

Two adults and one cat do not need two, identical lasagna pans. It is tempting to ponder why I own two, but this is not the time.

If you want to save money, there is a price to pay, so to speak.

Just another unseemly Hollywood anecdote to some. But to those of us inclined to see the world through an economic lens, it is an object lesson in how sex is just another commodity. Like most financial instruments, it has its amateur and professional traders.

"In light of the recent turbulence in financial markets, the uncertainty attending this forecast is quite high and the risks remain to the downside."

"There might be a bug in the juice, so to speak, and we need to understand the data better."

It is tempting to opt for baby blue rather than bright blue with black, because it seems like a softer combination, but that looks like business wear. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not fashion, darling.

But as the need to connect with the target segment, particularly the youth, becomes imperative, even brands are plunging headlong into providing a more evolved hangout experience. Marketers of brands in as diverse segments as tea, coffee and wines to banking, cold beverages and consumer electronics are busy chalking out ‘lounges’ which make a cool, hep and happening statement.

Mariane and Danny emerge in the film as two people at home no matter where they are on the planet, plunging headlong into the countries they're covering. They're not adrenalin junkies, as so many foreign correspondents are characterized, but connection junkies, reveling in vagrant moments of mutual comprehension.

Played off each other on adjoining walls in the same gallery are images of Palestinians crossing over a collapsed wall built to separate Gaza from Egypt; a mazelike steel sculpture by Richard Serra; a lone pedestrian walking near a wall separating the Palestinian-controlled Abu Dis from East Jerusalem; and a shot of a man plunging headlong from the upper reaches of the World Trade Center’s north tower in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

In the face of this official indifference to public opinion, it is tempting to succumb to despair.

Or was the warm, if somewhat awkward, encounter simply a laying down of arms, so to speak; a way to melt the iciness that has existed between the men since they both ran to lead their political party?

It is tempting to blame someone. Trouble is, enough blame can go around for everybody.

This is not the time for object lessons in temptation and fascination