I've succumbed myself many a time, which has led me to consciously deconstruct my thoughts, feelings and actions during a manifestation process to more closely examine them step-by-step as I move through.
And while resorting to sarcasm is something I have definitely succumbed to myself, it is a clear violation of basic academic professionalism to say to Professor Kim, as Brown did, "learn some f*cking medieval western European Christian history".
Perhaps the biggest problem for me is that I was unable to suspend my disbelief, to allow myself to succumb to the idea that Bruno and Lydia are actually able to interact in a way that allows them to fall in love as deeply as Hale would have the reader believe.
And yet I - who have always switched channels whenever anything remotely Benny Hill-ish crossed my television screen - found myself succumbing to the glazed rapture that spread throughout the audience on Friday night.
The only notable scene is one in which a baby is stoned to death … In the middle of it all, I found myself succumbing to a huge yawn," he writes, somewhat implausibly.
I weighed the options: Succumb to despair, or pick myself up and deal.
D'you know what I mean?' (I later succumb to their lemon olives myself and have been eating them ever since).
Before opening a credit card statement, I promise myself that I will not succumb to recrimination and self-loathing when forced to confront my spending habits.
So now, as an adult, I suppose I live in fear of succumbing to this state myself, succumbing to inactivity and helplessness and mediocrity.
Things improved at Stand on East 12th Street — my salmon burger (ask for lemon slices) pulled me out of a red-meat quagmire, though I always forgive myself for succumbing to Stand's superior beef burgers drowned with boozy milkshakes.
