It is no help to children to keep them completely unaware of the nature of commercial blandishment. |
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One person's blandishment is another person's deceit, and on this theory, crime. |
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Precisely because it delivers a gleam that the drabber signboards can't and brings to commercial blandishment an aura of other worlds. |
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Most children over five years old can distinguish between advertisements and programmes on television, even if they may not understand the persuasive nature of commercial blandishment. |
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It would have been asking a lot of the Europeans to ignore this as a signal to them, or an American blandishment to the Chinese — which, indeed, came before Ms. Ashton's pro-arms sales remarks. |
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Was it the blandishment of the quick shock which insured that, for seventy years or more, almost every adventure in 3-D would wind up as little more than an extended Plastigram? |
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Hōjō's daughter also succumbed to Yorimoto's blandishment but had to postpone marriage until 1180, when her official fiancé, the pro-Taira acting governor, had been eliminated. |
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