Embrace
embrace (verb) -
a. accept, support, and believe in a new idea or system
b. put arms around someone and hold tightly to show love
embrace capitalism
embrace issues
embrace policies
embrace reform
embrace risk
embrace the opportunity
embrace the importance of
comparisons and studies embrace...
embrace opposition groups
extract myself from his embrace
suffocate in the embrace
a fierce embrace
long to embrace
press harder into an embrace
find his own way out of an embrace
free from an embrace and find a measure of composure
the meeting of the dark and light in close embrace
the water beneath waiting to embrace us in its frozen grasp
step back from his light, casual embrace
the grip of the embrace
Example sentences:
* "I was pleased to receive with your letter and am glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of our unique watermelon seeds to you."
* "While the rest of eastern Europe rushes to embrace capitalism, Moscow dithers at the crossroads."
* "Kittens sometimes take badly to this over-zealous embrace and strike out with their sharp claws."
* "Women who are sensitive about thigh and hip areas will embrace the new proportions we advocate in our diet programme."
* The young man turned away from fattening foods to embrace a healthier diet: that meant plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, pasta, wholemeal products, beans and pulses.
* "This pre-modernist embrace of history was surely not an embrace of change or of movement."
* "Sales promotions embrace a variety of techniques that organisations can use as part of their total marketing effort."
* Capitalism is now happy to embrace socialism," declared the optimisitic politician.
* We might even embrace a new settlement of this legal case, if you make us an attractive offer, for example.
* "I embrace the opportunity to send you an account of Mr. Gould and his recent movements, presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time, a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest."
* "I seized that bloody pole, swinging the barge round even as I felt the water beneath me slop and gurgle as if maliciously laughing at me, waiting to embrace us in its frozen grasp."
* His suggestions range from those of socio-political and economic nature to those which embrace the importance of communication and technology.
* The Workers' Party of Ethiopia was to be transformed into a new Ethiopian Democratic Unity Party in what was portrayed as a move towards wider political participation intended to embrace opposition groups.
* "In my letter of 28 August 1992 to , I advised that the Review, not the initial consultative draft, will address housing need and supply, embrace the second Biennial Review."
* "These comparisons and studies embrace industrial settings involving dominated labour markets, industrial systems generated by decentralised industrial growth, newly emerging industrial systems in rapidly expanding towns and industrial systems with a long industrial tradition experiencing a rapid decline of manufacturing employment and a rapid increase in service employment."
* The candidate's campaign formula has been to embrace those policies which brought economic growth to the country during the last ten years.
* Are you ready to embrace risk in hope of greater rewards?
* "What was he now but a maimed thing, repugnant and ugly, which no love could ever be large enough to embrace?"
* "She saw how the dark room had filled with transparent figures who marched along the walls singing and mocking, who wrapped themselves around her so that she was suffocated in their embrace.
* My husband would fall asleep immediately after he put his head on the pillow, and after a while I had to try to extract myself from his embrace.
* They embrace, then separate.
* An embrace is more intimate than a handshake.
* She was a leading figure in the union movement whose militancy was expanding to embrace other issues and other workers.
The new government promised to embrace novel reforms.
* "I have longed to embrace my brother, my sister, myself."
* "The financial regulation proceeded on the basis that the term 'depositor' does embrace a person who did not make the deposit but subsequently became entitled to it, by operation of law or otherwise."
* "She bobbed down and came up more or less inside his embrace, her crimson, browned and pallid face peering like a floating decapitated head in his direction."
* "Her momentary sulkiness fled as she relaxed into his embrace, an embrace too pervasive to be mummies."
* "Our project is growing in popularity and provides an opportunity for sensitive and careful experimentation and aims to embrace a wide range of local people, of all ages and with different musical preferences."
* "There was a quick, rather fierce embrace."
* "And she pressed harder into his embrace."
* As it was he had to find his own way out of an embrace involving him far more seriously than he intended."
* "For a long time they clung together so until, with a haggard shaking of her head, Emilia freed herself from the embrace, struggled for, and found, a measure of composure."
* "With so much love did Gaius embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms."
* "It was the reconciliation of Sol and Luna after the violence of their strife, the chymical wedding of Sulphur and Quicksilver, the meeting of the dark and light in close embrace from which the golden stone was born."
* "He still held her, and, although she wanted to step back from his light, casual embrace in order to regain strength in her limbs, her legs wouldn't obey her brain's command to move."
* The hero at last entered the stone corridors and galleries which had once led him into the forest and forbidden land in whose winter embrace he had become lost.
* "As she drifted mindlessly in the shimmering water all her resistance to the past few days seemed to be dissolving away within the strength and power of his embrace."
