Ms. Cook, who is 77 but possesses the voice (when it is rested) of a woman less than half her age, embodies the term late bloomer.
Every troubled age embodies its own worst fears in some equivalent of devil worship and demonic possession; of succubi, incubi, Gog, Moloch, Minotaur and Caliban; of dark nights, judgment days, lakes of fire and hellhounds, wet nuggies, mad jigs and erotic contraband.
In looking into Trayvon's eyes in the numerous photos that scoured the internet what resonated most was his youthful gaze, and the promise and potential present in his demeanor that all boys at that age embody.
"The Distraction Addiction" (Little, Brown), by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, a futurist trained as a historian of science, and "Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information" (M.I.T ., by Malcolm McCullough, a professor of design and architecture at the University of Michigan, prescribe various remedies.
From Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke to the Elephant Man to the Goblin King, the singer and actor, who died Jan . 10at age 69, embodied an impossible combination of dark and light, the alien and familiar, the spooky and the intimate.
For once aged sensuality, embodied by Orpheus's father fondly dreaming of encounters with depraved blondes on mink beds, seems as seductive as youthful passion.
Celeste's infinite superficiality and terror of ageing certainly embody some key anxieties of millennial America, but the parallels stop there, and the reader is left entrapped in this barren psychic landscape, with little to watch but a teacher who masturbates on her classroom desk.
At age 28 she embodies today's dance diaspora.
Given the little chuckle with which he said it, Springsteen was clearly also poking a bit of fun at himself — or at the idea, anyway, that at age 66, he embodies a rock 'n' roll tradition that may die when he does.
Kenzo Dix was named for the Japanese characters for "health" and "creativity," and at age 15 he embodied those attributes, playing on the Berkeley High School basketball team and enjoying school art projects.
In "Awkwardness: An Essay" (2010), the critic Adam Kotsko dates our age of awkwardness — embodied by "the apparently ontological awkwardness of George W. Bush" and manifested in television shows like "The Office, Arrested Developmentnt," and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" — to the early aughts, with a postwar prehistory.
