The sketches themselves are often familiar: Wills slipping his arm into the sleeve of a dress and embracing himself, or animating Louis Armstrong with a cloth cap and a Tupperware box.
He was killed by the Moguls in 1675 for defending Hindus facing forcible conversion to Islam and for refusing to embrace Islam himself.
"He was a big calabash," Chamoiseau tells us, in the collective voice of the market vendors, "embracing within himself both flower and fruit, and just as a single mango bespeaks the essence of the tree, what he was, we were".
At the same time, they sought to pressure Mr. Romney to embrace or distance himself from Mr. Ryan's plans.
And more recently, Mr. King seemed to embrace the role himself, saying that his beating enabled others to succeed and "made the world a better place".
The view stuck, and he seemed to embrace it, making himself conspicuously useful to his elders in the socialist élite, but also nudging them toward vaguely bourgeois values.
The cyclical and linear approaches are matters of emphasis rather than mutually exclusive alternatives, and the scriptural traditions upon which Augustine relies are certainly not devoid of cyclical motifs [e.g. Ecclesiastes 3.1 8], nor does Augustine himself embrace one approach wholly to the exclusion of the other, as even a cursory reading of his Confessions reveals.
In the same session with voters, Ryan twisted himself in knots trying to both embrace Trump and distance himself from his inflammatory comments that have stung every group from women to Latinos, saying: "We don't have people who run for office who 100% reflect all of our views".
If Bernie can bring himself to embrace his former rival, he may have real influence in a Clinton administration.
