Just before he was assassinated, Malcolm X visited the American Museum of Natural History, to take another look at their stuffed aardvark — the first word in the dictionary, and an embodiment, for him, of the fascination he found in that book.
The motivation behind the character's actions for the past seven books/eight films is finally revealed: he has been in love with Lily Evans, Harry Potter's mother, since childhood, and since her death his life has been devoted to protecting her son, someone whose very existence – as the living embodiment of her rejection of him – causes him pain.
Rachel and David are so earnest and idealistic that standing guard over this embodiment of evil, feeding him and enduring his anti-Semitic taunts, seems to put their souls in peril.
For a split second she was there, again the embodiment of beauty to him His car spun in a widening circle and then came to rest as in Rhode Island, Nancy was walking slowly down the sidewalk.
For a split second she was there, again the embodiment of beauty to him His car spun in a widening circle and then came to rest as in Rhode Island, Nancy was walking slowly down the sidewalk View Article Ann Beattie has contributed to The New Yorker since 1974.
I was only 6 when he died, and most of what I knew of him came from my mother, who considered him the embodiment of evil and tried at every opportunity to turn me against him.
But when he undergoes his agonizing and increasingly frequent transformations into Hyde, the embodiment of evil, everything about him changes.
In this and other movies his persona as the embodiment of American decency made him a persuasive advocate for the liberal candidates and causes he supported.
Instead, he simultaneously disappointed those who considered him the embodiment of a new progressive movement and those who expected him to reach across the aisle to usher in a postpartisan age.
