They embraced without much enthusiasm.
In my embrace, without any warning, he went limp.
But there are other dimensions to the Games that should be embraced without cringing.
Gadahn admonishes those who embraced, "without hesitation, every obscure and foreign religion, philosophy, and ideology," or who searched for happiness in a "cultist-style withdrawal from the world".
It was embraced without enthusiasm by ministers, national parliamentarians and members of the European Parliament, as the third choice of direct-democracy advocates.
For the World Cup to be a success then these stories and the game itself need to be embraced without cynicism.
The governor balks when presented with evidence on evolution, abstinence education, and climate change, but embraces without question the notion that everyone he's killed in Texas was 100 percent guilty.
We need a scandalous feminism, one that embraces without inhibition the most painful, outrageous aspects of the human heart, giving them their place at the very core of the world that feminism wants to create.
As Madigan puts it, "Fred wanted to know the truth of your life, the nature of your insides, and had room enough in his own spirit to embrace without judgment whatever that truth might be".
Cosby, Steele argues, lost his status as America's "iconic Negro" when he began publicly blaming the problems of black Americans on their own lack of personal responsibility, a position whites can't embrace without risking being accused of racism.
