11 sentences with 'embraced'

Example sentences and phrases with the word embraced and other words derived from it.

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« "The rain was pouring down torrentially and the thunder rumbled in the sky, while the couple embraced under the umbrella." »

embraced: "The rain was pouring down torrentially and the thunder rumbled in the sky, while the couple embraced under the umbrella."
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« We owe fundamental modern beliefs to the Enlightenment. Enlightenment thinkers embraced the idea that scientific progress was limitless. »
« Descartes personally embraced the view that God was a benevolent and reasonable power of creation, but that he did not stoop to meddling in the universe. »
« Although not ethnically Persian, the Turkish rulers embraced this idea of historical sovereignty, seeing themselves as the inheritors of over a thousand years of Persian rule. »
« For Roman Christians, this presented a huge challenge: if the almighty God had embraced them, why was their empire crumbling? Augustine's answer was that life on earth is not ultimately meaningful. »
« However, a growing movement within the Church of England openly embraced Calvinism, and that movement became known as Puritanism (or "low church") - still technically Anglican, but rejected by the Church hierarchy. »
« December 25 had been the main feast of the sun god Sol Invictus, and early Christians embraced the overlap between that celebration and Christmas, noting that Christ was like the sun as the source of spiritual life. »
« What the Renaissance thinkers had in common was that they embraced the ideals of humanism and used humanism as their inspiration to create new and innovative approaches to philosophy, philology (the study of language), theology, history and political theory. »
« In some cases, non-Roman gods even supplanted Roman ones; one of the Severan emperors embraced the worship of the Syrian sun god Sol Invictus (meaning "the unconquered sun") and had a temple built in Rome to honour the god alongside the traditional Roman deities. »
« Christian thinkers therefore embraced the Aristotelian model in part because it fitted Christian theology so well: God and the angels were on the outside of the more distant crystal sphere in a state of total perfection, while humans and the devil were in, or inside in the case of Satan, the imperfect world. »
« Lutheranism also spread much more rapidly than earlier heresies, which tended to be confined to certain regions; in this case, the fact that Luther and his followers readily embraced the printing press to spread their message had a major impact, as news of the new movement spread throughout Europe in the course of the 1520s. »

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