Word: trapping
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...incredible level of focus and emotion, a feat that High Art itself does not manage to copy. For one, the last chapter of the film involves a descent into sentiment that nothing in the rest of the picture prepares us for. Moreover, Cholodenko falls into her own writerly trap just as Neil LaBute did in last year's In the Company of Man: her escalating interest in her story's allegorical conflicts of Work, Love, and Ambition bleed all the initial power from an emotionally explosive scenario...
Those lush grasses and eruptions of colorful spring wildflowers around the country this week may seem like a benign by-product of El Nino's drenching rains. But they could be a booby trap for outdoors-loving Americans. Ready to pounce out of the dense vegetation on any passing body will be another effect of the moist, warmer-than-usual weather: battalions of speck-size ticks carrying the summertime scourge called Lyme disease...
Galbraith says her eventual release was the result of a trap he set to catch the Pakistani president in a false promise. The president told Galbraith that friends could both visit and call Bhutto, but Galbraith found neither to be true...
...image of children being decently housed, clothed and fed because their parents are guaranteed by the Code of Conduct a living wage from the factories. Ahsan indicates that this "argument" is not good enough because it does not consider the childrens' education, their only way out of the "poverty trap." Clearly, though, the living wage enables the childrens' education because it frees them from the desperate necessity to work rather than attend school...
...they did, the regions concerned might not have acceptable schools, if any at all. Only by attaching an economic incentive to schooling, and by imparting that schooling in carefully monitored settings, can we be sure of giving many of these kids their best shot of escaping the poverty trap...