Throughout his life Nkosi has been a symbol of HIV/Aids because he encapsulated the reality, the injustice and the discrimination of the epidemic.
Women of Clinton's generation have a special bond with her because she encapsulates their story.
Warhol used Taylor just as he used soup cans, as shorthand to re-evaluate popular culture, because she encapsulated it.
They are special, he says, and we should take special care of them, because they encapsulate our response to appalling experiences of atrocity and injustice.
The biting, ferocious 'teases', the flippancy, the apparent inability to take anything particularly seriously, are everything, not least because they encapsulate all that used to be good about Englishness, and all that is grotesque also.
"I started with William Kentridge and Handspring because they encapsulated what I was trying to say with this exhibit — that is, puppetry's ability to give form to the internal experience," said Leslee Asch, the show's guest curator and the executive director of the Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, Conn.
The laws were termed so because they encapsulate phenomena largely independent of the people, the organisations and the domains involved in the evolution of the E-type systems studied.
The lines became lodged in the mind because they encapsulated an uncomfortable and at the same time compelling idea.
Terms like "double-dipping," "close-talking," and "re-gifting" all had their 15 minutes of fame on the show, and they stuck with us because they encapsulated common social quirks.
