Some venerate him, some worship him, and all Buddhists seek to imitate him as the most perfect embodiment of ideal personhood an ideal that he in some way "reveals".
(Mr. Morris's biographer, Joan Acocella, quotes one review: "Where is the profundity?") But it has become Mr. Morris's most famous piece, celebrated for its innocence, exuberance and how it suggests the physical embodiment of ideal worlds.
Even as she crawled through the dirt, you still had a sense of her as the abstract embodiment of ideal femininity, 1940s style: a beautiful, empathetic trophy who was fundamentally untouchable.
In white marble classical sculpture, he viewed the embodiment of ideal beauty.
Museums were created, and are maintained, she says, "as the embodiment of our ideals and aspirations".
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukEVER since 1789, France has served as a metaphor: the national embodiment of universalist ideals that transcend even the holy triumvirate of liberté, égalité, fraternité.
"And she was almost in tears, because, in her quirky way, she understood that the scene in this bar was the embodiment of those ideals".
Yet even as his presence stirs opposition to particular American policies, Mr. Obama is being welcomed by many Europeans as an embodiment of American ideals.
But this is more than just a story about a guy who appears to be the living, breathing embodiment of Vermont ideals getting to sell his "Eat More Kale" T-shirts.
Just as James's psychology gave back to the teacher and the school some of the influence on individual development that the interpreters of evolutionary adaptation had seemed to deny, so Dewey's notion of the school as the embodiment of community ideals and the spearhead of social reform lent a new importance to the processes of teacher education.
