Keep your old man's infatuation.

But can this infatuation possibly last?

I don't then wonder at Sophie's infatuation for this Jones creature.

But if it is nothing but infatuation, you leave me no choice

And this is the problem with our infatuation with the things we make.

We deal right now in the educational landscape with an infatuation with the culture of one right answer that can be properly bubbled on the average multiple choice test, and I am here to share with you it is not learning.

China may come to rue the wanton eagerness with which it has embraced industrialization. Already, the Chinese are beginning to awaken from the infatuation with development that besieged them as they began to emerge from the commodity starved Cultural Revolution.

There was a brief political infatuation among some Westerners in the 1960 s with Nehru jackets and Maoist revolution, but it was brief. As John Lennon sang in 1968, if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.

It applauded the military takeover in Algeria in the early 1990 s aimed at curtailing the democratic emergence of an Islamist regime, and is happy to conduct business with authoritarian regimes throughout the Arab world. Yet, public infatuation with the external trappings of democracy is usually the norm.

But becoming a murderous fanatic like Merah or Sidique Khan is the personal choice of a pathological mind, not the trend of a generation. Social rejection has not turned young French and British Muslims into mass murderers, and the infatuation of many with al Qaeda has not overwhelmed their desire to fit in.

Around mid August, as Trump s poll numbers rose even after public statements that would have brought down mere mortal candidates, it dawned on the pundits that he was no summer infatuation. It became evident that he might win the first nominating contest, the Iowa caucuses, and that he was leading in the second, New Hampshire, and other states.

TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s recent visit to Washington highlighted fundamental disagreements between Israel s current government and President Barack Obama s administration. Netanyahu persists in questioning Obama s infatuation with the two state solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict, and he refuses to see the link that Obama believes exists between an Israeli Palestinian peace and his capacity to curtail Iran s nuclear ambitions.