It was endearing to have young singers portraying the embodiments of Time, Fortune and Love (Cupid), as they assail Human Frailty during the opera's prologue, presented as if imagined by Penelope in a dream.
And when we look back on the history of literature, and think about writers that we return to again and again, they are people who are the embodiment of their time in certain ways, but quite often they are people who are writing not against the time, but against the tide.
Rodman seemed to have successfully commodified what David Remnick, in his review of the book, noted as "an embodiment of the times: a gender-bender filled with racial anxiety".
At the busy height of his unlikely career Elliott Gould was as much an embodiment of the times as a movie star.
He is, as the evidence at the inquiry made clear, the latest embodiment of a time-honored tradition in which British governments of the day seek to curry favor with Fleet Street's press barons.
In this new era, there is a certain stifling calm, a disinterest in politics…The embodiment of modern times in Russia is its President, Vladimir Putin, who is a bureaucrat thrust forward in history.
For his high-flying, and then brought-low, embodiment of the times, Gary Sernovitz invents Chris Kelch, prize young stock analyst in the field of communications technology and rated No. 5 in his field by the insider sheets that rate such things.
Trump has long straddled both sides, gliding from mogul to candidate, popping up on our screens as both an outrageous spectacle and the embodiment of our times. .
It is also true that, in the modern age of general celebrity and media-dominated politics, heads of state have a way of becoming fixtures of popular culture, shorthand embodiments of their time.
