As Glavine joined his teammates in piling onto the field, they embraced him with one hug after another.
His generous presence was a lift for the more than 100 clients and staff, who embraced him with affection.
Like many confidence men, Ponzi preyed first on his own kind, and the Boston Italian community embraced him with delirious joy.
New York, no offense to Cleveland, is slightly bigger, and will embrace him with the kind of excitement that certainly the Knicks haven't had since Willis Reed.
But the adrenaline carried him through, and the audience embraced him, with some fans even saying, "I like your new voice".
"It was an emotional moment," Mem Aslan, 29, one of the organizers of the Anti-Capitalist Muslim Youth march, said last week, recounting how an aged Communist had embraced him with tears streaming down his face.
BUT what is perhaps most remarkable about Dr. Keene is that Japan, a racially homogeneous nation that can be politely standoffish to non-Japanese, has embraced him with such warmth.
Dame Sybil Thorndike embraced him with, "Oh John, you have been a silly bugger!" and later led him on, saying, "Come along, John darling, they won't boo me!" As the laws changed, so did Gielgud -- to some extent.
Two years of the Flunking Cyst's dithering, convinced that if he just made a little change here, or a little shift in emphasis there, the public will suddenly embrace him with open arms?
