"ability to embody" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to someone's ability to represent or demonstrate something. For example: "Her ability to embody the complex emotions of her character was remarkable."
Malkovich's ability to embody an Iago-esque evil intelligence has seen him cast as clever criminals and psychopaths ever since.
Gyllenhaal has many gifts, but the ability to embody obsession turns out not to be one of them.
Her ability to embody love, happiness and virtue (all of which can easily give an actor the slip) is exceptional.
"I would question the filmmaker's ability to tell the story more than I would question Zoe Saldana's ability to embody the character".
Her expertise is accents (Danish, Italian and RP English among them), and she has the uncanny ability to embody her characters.
But whether Darger belongs here conceptually or not, this robust sampling of his work most rewardingly shows his ability to embody a far-out vision.
Her ability to fully embody the work with such power and subtlety was astonishing and humbling.
His first major US survey will highlight the prolific artist's uncanny ability to visually embody various "mental states" and the paradoxes innate to human nature.
Walker, who played the title role in the musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" as an emo rock star, has an uncanny ability to theatrically embody the thematic essence of a show.
So for me, yaogun's potential is in the ability for 'gunners to embody that journey into the future".
Her ability to catch, embody, and transmit the feel of the time is inseparable from her sense of production.
