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The vanguard for this push is embodied by Pumphouse Point – a much talked about converted hydro facility on Lake St Clair that is catering to wilderness visitors who don't want to shiver in a tent amid the region's tempestuous weather.
A second later, down the line, he heard the nurses asking: "Where?" It says much for Spall's bloody-minded longevity that I have to refresh my memory on all the roles he's embodied.
Americans should be defending not merely a right to be free from the oppressive attentions of the national government, not merely fighting for something embodied in the due process clause of the 14th amendment.
The dichotomy people always cited was between Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio – the former embodied the hyper-masculinised, "gorilla-like" (it's a technical term) face, the latter a face that was considered as feminine as you could get, before you looked so female that you freaked people out.
Old enough to say "it's cool" to reporters, but too young to condemn an aesthetic outrage, Coe's children also embodied the revised Olympic message: it's totally about kids.
Jeremy Isaacs writes: As a television producer in the 1960s, Phillip Whitehead embodied the best practice and the highest hopes of BBC television current affairs, yet he left the BBC.
In the city centre, the "Hole in the Road" (or Castle Square, as it was officially known), with its subterranean passageways, escalators and tropical aquarium, embodied a city looking towards a rosy future.
Here was a food basket of hope, a basket that embodied the Goop philosophy, a basket that said, loud and proud: even America's poor can enjoy the kind of joyless, buttock-clenching, is-this-kombucha-locally-sourced? diet a body-image obsessed Hollywood actor might suffer, in order to look good in a Stella McCartney crêpe de chine statement-piece skirt ($1,960 on Goop's webstore).
So Burnham (brilliantly embodied by Kevin Spacey) starts off a loser - twitchy, pallid, diminished - and winds up victorious.
The objection is embodied by a letter that more than 200 PEN members have signed, "there is a critical difference between staunchly supporting expression that violates the acceptable, and enthusiastically rewarding such expression".
The chilling catchphrase embodied her government's scorched earth onslaught on Britain's mining communities – and gave the green light for the entire state to treat the miners' union as outlaws.
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The primary grammatical function of "embodied" is that of a verb , specifically the past participle or past tense form of "embody". It is used to describe the action of giving a concrete form to something abstract, as shown in Ludwig examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
