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Both Boswell and Johnson wrote readable and lucid prose, and scholars who gloss their texts cannot resist their influence, which is all for the good.
Yachts at anchor clutter the nearly circular harbor beneath a candy-striped lighthouse few photographers can resist.
Rarely able to resist a cheap shot at the president, the WSJ says he was disappointed that Diana wasn't granted a state funeral, because if she had, he could have made the trip.
But as a historian, I can't resist remarking that the cultivation of the inessential is a trademark of aristocratic societies (aristocrats deliberately spend their time on trifles to show that they can , and others can't), and that as charming as it appears to outsiders, most native members of the society are unlikely to be so well disposed, since the burden of the aristocracy falls on their shoulders.
But O'Brien, who has always been opposed to making deals with Sinn Fein, noted that there was now less open emphasis in Ireland on peace than on a breakthrough for Irish nationalism, and he added that an article in the Sunday Business Post--the Dublin newspaper most sympathetic to Sinn Fein--had rather given the game away with an article that said, "[T]he IRA, which is likely to maintain its ceasefire for several months, will almost certainly resist any attempt to accede to unionist demands for actual decommissioning of weapons by early summer."