Whether rejecting, embracing or assimilating the folkloric and the contemporary, the artists in question are products of colonial cultures that have shaped their creative outlooks.
He hires, fires, invites, rejects, embraces, insults, tweets, challenges, denies, refuses, ingratiates, blackballs -- and whatever he does, it's news.
Along with, say, coffee or hair dye, it was simply another part of his old life that he rejected after embracing religion.
Have Republicans rejected or embraced the establishment's neo-conservatism?
Likewise, Obama has both rejected and embraced elements of conservative legal doctrine.
This young leader is growing up in a world where all of the adults are telling him about the importance of rejecting anger, embracing forgiveness.
It can be easy to diminish such subject matter as simple, and Swift has famously taken turns rejecting and embracing the gaudier attention to her relationships.
Making that initial effort, putting yourself out there to be rejected or embraced, is a risk worth taking.
Best of all, the emotion of this play about a marriage mangled and restored, children rejected and embraced, and loved ones bitterly parted and reunited is powerfully delivered.
Will they reject or embrace the freedoms they enjoyed here?
