Mr. Prodi has lamented the lack of any clear embodiment of contemporary European might.
Godzilla was a clear embodiment of Japanese fears about nuclear weapons in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
When it opened, in 1913, it was New York's clearest embodiment of the essential urban idea — that different kinds of buildings work together to make a whole that is far greater than any of its parts.
It wasn't that they were simply in bad taste, or vulgar; they were the clear embodiment of what a certain drunken teacher of Soviet literature from the Literary Institute used to call 'our gestalt', and the sight was so pitiful, laughable and touching (especially the harp buckles) that tears sprang to Tatarsky's eyes.
In the Arabian Peninsula, a Wahhabism wedded to rule by the sword represents the clearest embodiment of this form of Islam.
"She's marketed as this wholesome, all-American Madonna to little girls, but if you look at her as an adult, particularly at her body and clothes, she's a pretty clear embodiment of the whore".
Yet the most recent version of Google's voice-controlled assistant, which can speak and be spoken to almost like to a person, without any tapping of a screen, is the clearest embodiment to date of what Silicon Valley's "humanizing" mandate will yield and what might result from creating technology that manages to seamlessly stand in for people.
His emphasis, finally, on the commandments as the clearest embodiments of what is pleasing to God was clearly meant to nourish not only respect for the nobility of Israel's ancestral way of life, but also to encourage renewed commitment to that life as defined by worthy deeds and self-mastery over and above pleasing intentions and intellectually respectable opinions.
However, despite this class of shared assumptions, researchers operationalize "the embodied mind" differently in empirical work and it is not always clear that embodiment is an umbrella term for lines of work separated by differing philosophical assumptions.
It is clear that embodiment theories can account for the representation of concrete concepts but the case for abstract concepts is less obvious.
