Though any absolute has exceptions (the off-beat "Repo Man" with Emilio Estevez, for example), many friends and acquaintances who have futilely searched for another exception have come to adopt this guideline as gospel.
Normally, this would be a career-ending moment, but thanks to the intervention of his new comrades, the marines, who have come to adopt him, Jimmy gets his redemption.
Being employed almost exclusively to write about books I like, it is very rare that I get the chance to be nasty about a book, and have come to adopt the rather matronly position of not saying anything if you don't have anything nice to say.
And, in the present day, John Ling Smith, a moderately successful, neurotic writer, who was born to a white father and a Chinese mother and teaches at a big American university, finds himself adrift in China, the land of "capitalism misspelled," where he and his wife have come to adopt a child.
The congressman seemed to be asking the C.E.O. of one of the nation's largest financial institutions how his company could possibly have come to adopt some of the same pushy sales techniques that were in place at Stratton Oakmont, the boiler-room brokerage in "The Wolf of Wall Street".
In recent years, however, many scholars have come to adopt a different view.
She has come to adopt the party-line view of the most change-averse elements of the teachers' unions: There is no education crisis.
Unlike the confessional poets who influenced her earliest verses, Jean Valentine has come to adopt a more skeletal approach to personal experience, preferring terse lyric fragments to continuous narrative.
Yet starting with that April speech, Mr. Obama has come to adopt most of the major tenets supported by a majority of the commission's members, though his proposals do not go as far.
They've come to adopt babies, and are just waiting for the red tape to be unwound before a small bundle of joy is placed in their desperate arms.
