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...trouble. In 399 BCE, at the age of 70, he was put on trial for his life. But Socrates’ response was typically uncompromising: he refused either to give up philosophising or to flee into exile. Found guilty, he was executed by being made to drink hemlock. Plato presents him spending his last hours discussing philosophy with his friends, before calmly drinking the poison....

...troubling, irony in the fact that the response to these attacks could make life more difficult for artists. If, as looks to be the pattern, border controls tighten and international movement becomes more difficult, this will put extra constraints on a form of cultural activity for which touring is crucial, and increasingly so. British musicians have had problems in the...

...troubling aspect to his fantasies about communication: his ‘desire […] to be sure that all people were the same’ and ‘very simple underneath’ is both crudely reductive, as he partly recognises, and indicative of empathy and a wish for real connection with others. The allusion to music also allows Woolf to flesh out aspects of her character’s inner life that...

...troubling implication is that a woman’s consent might be dispensable, as long as employment regulations allow – or condone – certain uses of her body. She is, after all, government/corporate property. Hot-desking The problematic negotiation of the female body in a workplace regulated by the male gaze is illustrated in the ongoing discussion about gendered dress...