Sentence examples for embodiment of a certain from inspiring English sources

First, and most potently, as James Bond; second, as the embodiment of a certain kind of grizzled wisdom, of which perhaps the most notable is Indiana Jones's father.

The scion of a family that had been producing professional chefs since the 17th century, Bocuse was the very embodiment of a certain type of Frenchness: a cultured, cultivated perfectionist who elevated the production of food to an art form.

Yet because of its high-profile sock puppet, its ambitious business plan and its embodiment of a certain kind of investor dementia, Pets.com has achieved a semimythical status utterly out of proportion to its achievements.

Helene is a nightmare, or at least the embodiment of a certain familiar fear: the bad woman (welfare queen) periodically held up as a symptom of some grave social disorder.

Nevertheless Vivien became, in the early 60s, the embodiment of a certain kind of Pinter woman, black-stockinged and high-heeled and combining external gentility and inner passion: a character seen, in various forms, in his Night School, The Collection, The Lover, Tea Party and reaching its fulfilment in Ruth in The Homecoming in 1965.

Nevertheless, Vivien became in the early 1960s the embodiment of a certain kind of Pinter woman, black-stockinged and high-heeled and combining external gentility and inner passion - a character seen, in various forms, in Night School, The Collection, The Lover, Tea Party and reaching its fulfilment in Ruth in The Homecoming in 1965.

Like, physical-embodiment-of-a-leather-jacket hot.

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.

Leonine in T-shirt and jeans, her frizzy, blondish hair streaming below her shoulders, Frances McDormand in "Laurel Canyon" may be the ultimate screen embodiment of a recently evolved species: Rock 'n' Roll Woman of a Certain Age.

By parentage Julie may be half English (and Ludivine Sagnier speaks the language well enough), but at least at first she is pointedly Sarah's opposite and perhaps the embodiment of certain English prejudices about the rude, undisciplined French -- just as Sarah herself may personify certain clichés about the English.

And maybe that is the evolving embodiment of certain French restaurants in New Jersey: decorum and restraint and backbone of classic French technique.