In Coetzee's sinuously ironic and deeply unsettling novels, animals are beings worthy of consideration in their own right and embodiments of ideas about justice, mortality and love.
And it would be good for any other business with high fixed costs (it's expensive to offer the thing at all) but low marginal costs (it's cheap to satisfy one more customer) -- a combination that has become ever more common as we have moved from an economy that mainly made physical things to one that increasingly deals in digital embodiments of ideas.
But the embodiment of such ideas here is far more incisive, more vehement and, indeed, louder than has been usual for Mr. Sciarrino.
The development of the new centralized monarchical state after the middle of the Chunqiu period is not only the embodiment of the ideas of these various thinkers but also the working premise in the context of which they elaborated their theories.
Technology also offers novel opportunities for the embodiment of mathematical ideas (Lee, 2015), allowing students to enact mathematical activities related to visualization, symbolization, intuition, and reasoning.
The eye-catching virtual sculptures and shapes he creates are meant to be a formal embodiment of these ideas.
He cites the modern classic The Medium is the Massage, designed in 1967 by Quentin Fiore with text by Marshall McLuhan as an embodiment of these ideas.
Feminist literary critics have analyzed the character's enduring appeal, arguing variously that Nancy Drew is a mythic hero, an expression of wish fulfillment, or an embodiment of contradictory ideas about femininity.
Sawyer goes utterly undefined, devoid of tendencies, thoughts, interests, ideas, because she is, rather, the embodiment of an idea; the protagonist of the film isn't Sawyer or her stalker but stalking as such.
The adoration for the world's greatest political idea coexists with a deep loathing for the human embodiment of that idea.
