It embraced light and freedom in opposition to Victorian constraints with its obvious class values.
In Mashhad al-ahwal ("The Witnessing of the Stages of Human Life"), published in 1870, Marrash would again compare the East and the West, writing that "while the East sank deeper into darkness, the West embraced light".
While we expect a high level of accuracy, professionalism, and integrity, we also embrace light-heartedness, humor, and fun in our employees.
For reasons I will never understand, the broadcast (and, later, satellite) television audience never embraced Lights to the degree necessary to turn it into a hit -- or even an unqualified success.
Only in embracing my light through my darkness have I been able to find me again.
"Maybe the wines people are embracing are lighter, softer and easier going," Joe speculated.
We'll see if this starts a trend of more brands embracing a lighter touch with more lasting potential in favor of trying settling for a quick bump in visibility from a sloppy, more obvious approach.
And just as we choose to celebrate and embrace the light around us this time of year, we can also choose to celebrate the light within us.
I was then 26 and he was 30, but he had already made his name at the Royal Court, taking from it and from its presiding designer, Jocelyn Herbert, a design philosophy that embraced white light, a simple stage, real objects, use of real materials in the costumes, exposed lighting bars and a permanent surround.
