In much of western Europe, progress involves embracing a sort of deep-grained passivity towards the rest of the world: to be attacked is to be suspect.
On one wall in the back of the gallery, Ms. Fujinami offers a series of photo-collages that have a certain immediacy, while embracing a sort of cold Modernism, making them precious.
But in the face of the great unmooring, Dreher advocates that those who are serious about their faith act to embrace a sort of "exile in place" and commit to strengthening their families, churches and schools, forming a vibrant counterculture that will preserve Christianity despite a rising tide of secularism.
Solid if unsurprising travelogue, which lays out the familar Cuban cliches early – fading colonial architecture, raffish revolutionary romance, vintage American cars, rum, cigars – before establishing the reason for its existence: the emergence of a new Cuba, slowly resigning itself to the economic failure of its decades of communism, and gingerly embracing a sort of elementary capitalism.
And then, we need to embrace a sort of startup culture, an innovation friendly culture.
"Carter meeting with Fidel is not a bad thing," he says, "but what he thinks about Fidel probably is". With their "jejune hopefulness about regimes elsewhere," Americans often embrace a sort of "moral Carterism" toward tyrants.
Sometimes, the couple just resigns themselves to erotic entropy, and embraces a sort of marital celibacy typified by the nightly ritual of 'reading magazines' or 'checking the scores on ESPN.' In this instance, going to sleep unfulfilled is preferable to even trying.
"When I was a freshman in college, I came out of the closet and was embraced by a sort of gay fraternity of new friends.
His second studio album, "Unorthodox Jukebox" (Atlantic), treads racier ground than past efforts did yet makes no bones about embracing a saccharine sort of bliss, as the bopping lead single "Locked Out of Heaven" demonstrates.
Beyond that, they will embrace a certain sort of governing approach.
