| Yet the island's origins and evolution belie the tranquility and leisureliness it has come to embody. |
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| By the same token the hulls come to embody notions of flight, diaspora, immigration and emigration. |
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| Law thus comes to embody, in equal measure, both political legitimacy and moral persuasiveness. |
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| Testino's trademark is the intimacy he attains with his subject and his ability to embody the spirit of the fleeting moment. |
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| Like literary writers, nineteenth-century scientists sometimes created characters to embody or personify challenging ideas. |
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| For example, the struggle of the ancient Hebrews against the wicked Pharaoh came to embody the struggle of the colonists against English tyranny. |
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| Chandler has somehow come to embody the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction, although he didn't create it. |
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| We are much obliged to all and promise always to do our best to embody human dreams about flying possibilities. |
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| Monarch of the Glen is nothing less than a heroic portrait, in which the stag transcends the animal world to embody virtues of a higher order. |
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| Dewar, who came to embody the thrifty character of the nation, had a vision which is encapsulated in those first six sonorous words. |
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| Karim is supposed to embody the dissonance and non-conformity of second-generation Bangladeshi youths. |
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| For a while, she watches the merry flames which seem to embody the very spirit of this night. |
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| He was a craggy, bearded bear of a man in a black Stetson, who seemed to embody the rugged individualism of the pioneer. |
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| This manifesto rings with a youthful sincerity, but his stories and poems ambitiously attempt to embody the ideal. |
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| What is important is to embody, live, and work with these disjunctures and ambivalences. |
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| The modern Turkish orthography consists of 29 Roman letters and was designed to embody sounds in the spoken language in a totally transparent manner. |
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| As a ballerina, to embody the duality of the Swan Queen and the black swan can be a fiendishly difficult task. |
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| It was oh-so subtle, but he began to embody his grandfather and his father. |
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| Zuckerberg, or at least the narrow, shallow portrait painted of him in The Social Network, seems to embody that flimsy promise. |
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| It is in no way my job to embody an idealized form of beauty and sensuality. |
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| In each case the rejected form is taken to embody that which is beyond the bounds or transgresses the limits of, variously, decency, acceptability, or good taste. |
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| Women in most cultures are required to embody the ethnicity of a culture and our bodies become the battlegrounds for conflicts between men of different cultural groups. |
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| This moment continues to embody so many anxieties about sexual politics, women's reproductive rights and religious zealotry currently occupying the American psyche. |
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| They appeared to embody the individual artistic expression of the Canadian artist whose essential Canadianness was understood in relationship to wilderness landscape. |
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| Here Maury's chronometrical sea science intimates the degree to which the chronometer had come, in the Victorian age, to embody nothing less than rationality itself. |
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| Nevertheless, several attempts had been made to embody the Ashes in a physical memorial. |
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| Assorted other females are given speaking parts, but nothing more than fantasy figures to embody. |
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| They seemed to embody datedness, staleness, and gloominess as apperceived by Liang. |
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| The Royal Arms of England continued to embody information relating to English history. |
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| Long before rehearsals began, Sharp started to embody Christopher. |
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| Lamenters draw upon a stock of images and metaphors, coined by the most prolific members of the profession, to embody and mourn the deceased. |
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| The Hebrew alphabet, the Aleph Beit, is said by the Kabbalists to embody wonderful and miraculous powers. |
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| The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists. |
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| Although the most powerful individual in the Roman Empire, Augustus wished to embody the spirit of Republican virtue and norms. |
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| Voltaire came to embody the Enlightenment with his defence of civil liberties, such as the right to a free trial and freedom of religion. |
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| As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze. |
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| Round provided a family tree to embody his essential findings, which is adapted below. |
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| The model is said to embody the brand's 'fluidic sculpture' design theme and prefigures a production minivan that will be introduced in India within the next couple of years. |
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| Angelo clearly takes this view, but he extends it by attempting even to embody the law himself, as if he could renounce his fleshliness through austere self-control. |
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| Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship. |
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| The cult of the chief executive reached its apogee in the nineteen-nineties, a period when C.E.O.s seemed not so much to serve their companies as to embody them. |
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| Though the term may be insufficient to embody the intended concept, its impreciseness may be an accurate reflection of the present state of the field. |
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