Perhaps, as my acquaintance suggested, I was romanticizing European dogs, seeing them as embodying qualities of order and freedom our own restless and excitable American dog lacks.
Durga's nine manifestations -- embodying qualities from courage to piety to blissful joy -- are celebrated in India during a huge nine-day festival called Navarati.
This metaphorical, embodied quality shapes how we relate to abstract concepts, emotions and human activity.
Do they embody qualities that you'd like to develop in yourself?
In my late 20s, Yastrzemski embodied qualities that were now more important to me: work, resolve and concentration.
Most of them embody qualities — grit, commitment, hustle — that are usually found in winners, and that are inevitably seen to be illustrative of the local character.
For many conservatives, Mr Obama embodies qualities that their party has abandoned: pragmatism, competence and respect for the head rather than the heart.
Wendy Whelan, the principal at N.Y.C.B., has come to embody qualities that are found only in a ballerina with age and experience: economy, transparency, and a kind of unyielding honesty.
This woman had been chosen by the researchers, Tracy Vaillancourt and Aanchal Sharma, because she "embodied qualities considered attractive from an evolutionary perspective," meaning a "low waist-to-hip ratio, clear skin, large breasts".
"Each object embodies qualities of both disaster and of spectacle.
The person should embody qualities and competencies that you are looking for in your group or yourself.
