It was only much later, when I moved to London, that I succumbed and they became a part of my life.
GEORGE LANG, owner of the Cafe des Artistes, expressed relief that "they didn't make the Brasserie into Disneyland," adding that "the greatest negative of the evening was that I succumbed to the foie gras.
It would be easy to draw this out, but ultimately what happened is that I succumbed, I shut my eyes and slipped a slimy piece of dog into my mouth.
It wasn't until my first real 9 to 5+ job after college as a software engineer for a defense contractor that I finally succumbed to afternoon power naps.
I worry I'll fall so deeply in love I won't ever want to write another book; I worry I won't fall in love, that I will succumb to the boredom of nappies and night feeds and watch helplessly as my brain turns to mush.
Realising, after my nostalgic orgy, that I'd succumbed to a silly, snobbish prejudice, I began to set matters straight.
And I would be remiss if I did not add that I have succumbed to this temptation to speak as if I could tell what the future holds.
But it was to the evangelical pitchman Dr. Atkins, not the stately Dr. Mirsky, that I finally succumbed, goaded by my son, Jacob, who, though not at all plump, lost 27 pounds and reduced his cholesterol in two months on Atkins.
I'm sorry to say that I have succumbed to something like schadenfreude.
I want to have freedom from many of the worries that I have succumbed to all my life.
