Sentence examples for embody for from inspiring English sources

Berrigan, who died on Saturday at the age of ninety-four, quicame came to embody for me a new ideal.

That's a powerful message to embody, for something that just missed the wrecking ball, and a valuable lesson in the simple art of paying attention.

But Corzine is the guy who seems to embody, for a lot of voters, a weariness with government generally, a sense that they're constantly being squeezed for more.

It was in 1928 that Moynihan began his journey to Hell's Kitchen, a neighborhood that came to embody, for him and thousands of others, the working-class life of the 1930's and 40's.

"A virtuous king," wrote Logan Pearsall Smith, "is a king who has shirked his proper function: to embody for his subjects an ideal of illustrious behaviour absolutely beyond their reach".

Most significant, Gabin came to embody for France, just as Cagney did for America, the new breed of urbanites produced by the fast-growing cities of the 1920's.

Because otherwise this country and everything it embodied for us would perish.

The primal sexual danger he embodies for Blanche surfaces only in flickers.

For the past ten years he has asked his classes to identify one person who embodies for them the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s.

But in New York Giuliani could blame Dinkins, and the traditional New York liberal political philosophy he embodied, for the city's troubles.

When I was a child, the qualities of boldness, daring and speed were embodied for me by Jackie Robinson on the basepaths.