Often laced with politics — economic, social, sexual — their art has embraced subjects ranging from pornography to pandemic diseases, vaudeville to scatology.
Like many other recent pitches seeking attention, it eschews prurient themes, instead embracing subjects that are even more shocking and taboo -- death and dying.
Christopher Hibbert, whose stylishly written, fast-paced histories and biographies embraced subjects as varied as King George IV, the French Revolution, the emperors of China and the city of Rome, died on Dec. 21 in Henley-on-Thames, England.
We're gonna get punky!" In truth, the music ZZ Top started making at this time was not awfully punky – though it could be tinny, occasionally tuneless and very, very odd – but it locates precisely the point at which ZZ Top's songs embraced subjects besides beer drinkin', hell raisin', brothels and bad women – that's how punk liberated them.
Readers today never fail to be amazed by Diderot's willingness to confront both the unconscionable and the uncomfortable, often embracing subject matter that his contemporaries fled.
Bookings of large groups of theatergoers, a backbone during the early weeks of a show, were modest, and the marketing team's overtures to religious people, urging them to embrace the subject matter, did not take hold.
MANY wine lovers tend to think of beer as something monolithic, just as modern art or rap music seem all the same to those who choose not to embrace those subjects.
Are these huge comic-book films the way for the world at large to embrace the subjects of these forms that are traditionally relegated to the nerd niche?
Mr. Scott appreciates the film's ability to embrace the subject it is parodying with commitment and sincerity.
That is partly fuelled by sports editors demanding an Olympic slant for their papers, but also by a keen willingness of the players themselves to embrace the subject.
