It deals with the nature of the colonized subject, and the way in which they must simultaneously embrace two different cultural identities.
Like Dionysus, Cybele was regarded as having a distinctly un-Hellenic temperament, simultaneously embraced and "held at arm's length" by the Greeks.
As Norwich puts it, he did so by "embracing simultaneously the creed of Islam and the daughter of the Seljuk Sultan Mesud I."
Anything goes, since the most characteristic Kuchar films embrace at least five genres simultaneously and consist of one climax after another.
The tomb installation feels at once airy and claustrophobic, as befits a culture that simultaneously embraced death and recoiled from it.
But they don't begin to match the music's finesse and imagination, which simultaneously embraces parody and celebration of the different forms it quotes.
This viewer had a sense of simultaneously embracing the past and the future.
It was known for its anti-establishment aesthetics, while simultaneously embracing brash consumerism and the uniform style of corporate brands, such as Orange and Coca-Cola.
Throughout his life, Roth simultaneously embraced and rejected the notion of a forgiving God, and this ambivalence is also registered in his writing.