But can this infatuation possibly last?

Yet, public infatuation with the external trappings of democracy is usually the norm.

There was a brief political infatuation among some Westerners in the 1960 s with Nehru jackets and Maoist revolution, but it was brief.

But more important was the symbolism of Brazil s move, for it suggests that emerging markets may be getting over their doomed infatuation with foreign finance.

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.

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.

And Anonymous International would be nothing if it didn't allude to Medvedev's foolish reputation. This tweet refers to Medvedev's infatuation with photography, perhaps alluding to his infamously embarrassing elevator selfie.

Their absurd and baroque infatuation was as much the product of ignorance of Mao s crimes as it was the result of boredom in a prosperous society where unemployment was virtually nonexistent.

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.

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.

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.