The phrase "embodies itself" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe when something is represented or expressed in a visible or tangible form. For example, "The sculpture embodies itself in a celebration of grace and power."
Whatever its form, it is distinguishable from the shaping spirit of imagination, which ordinarily embodies itself in children's games and rhymes, the fairy tale, the fantasy, animal stories such as Kipling's Jungle Books, nonsense, nonmoral poetry, humour, or the realistic novel conceived as art rather than admonition.
Wind is what is driving the current pattern, but furious, invasive, unwelcome water is how this is embodying itself most discomfitingly in people's lives.
The diversity of our founding team has embodied itself in our culture as a business, which we are all incredibly proud of.
The movie is about his judgment of ambiguous situations; he embodies survival itself.
He embodies power itself, power that only survived in a particular art form, once slave trading and colonisation took complete control of the land.
Like it or not, the president of the United States embodies America itself.
Some say it was not only the first word at Sinai, but perhaps embodies in Itself the entire Revelation.
Artists and intellectuals came to see war as embodying modernity itself.
The monument doesn't battle repression by attempting to stand for ever, but by sinking away, embodying repression itself.
The main thing, they show, was that it was live — and that its liveness embodied, in itself, the bravery and risk of the mission.
The main thing, they show, was that it was live and that its liveness embodied, in itself, the bravery and risk of the mission.
