Like tossing out the boob tube or insisting on going around without a cell phone, ditching Facebook, though embraced as a kind of counter-culture status symbol by those who quit, smacks of elitism to others, in part because it suggests whoever quits has enough social cachet or stature to make socializing on Facebook unnecessary.
The president, though bizarrely embraced as some sort of lefty messiah in 2008, never at any point showed himself to be more than a corporate centrist with all the political cowardice and none of the insider know-how of more seasoned nominees past.
(And lately he had been even luckier, becoming a Christian, a force he embraced as a counter to witchcraft -- though he could never again visit his family's ancestral village, where, he explained, the traditional priests would cast spells and kill him as punishment for his conversion).
Though the kiwi was never embraced as a "superfruit," like the açaí, a significant part of its success can be ascribed to a name change.
Few, though, have embraced it as unashamedly as Bacon: at times for him it became an inextinguishable obsession.
While millennials have not consistently followed the path of prior generations –marrying at a young age, leaving their parents' home upon graduation or settling on one or two careers – some have clearly embraced racism as though it were part of a familial legacy.
As the movie suggests, this failure, born of American arrogance, embraces liberals as well as neocons, though the liberals, to their credit, do occasionally take responsibility for their mistakes.
I didn't like the way their voices seemed to embrace me, as though it was us three now.
She appears to go weak and wobbly-kneed, and steps forward to embrace Kao as though it's the only thing that will keep her standing.
One of them, a woman with braided hair perhaps in her 30s, has her hands in a rigor mortis embrace, as though she had been trying to cling on to life and never let it go.
