There was the belief then that because they were so good at baseball, the Boston players embodied goodness — were noble and invincible figures.
The younger, nobler generation, led by Mr. Hunnam in the title role, struggles a bit with the stylized dialogue and the burdensome job of embodying goodness and purity of heart (Scott).
Ryan and Rebecca: You embody the goodness of our nation.
Somehow, he seemed to embody innocence, goodness and, for so many years, incorruptibility.
He had moral authority, and people regarded him as goodness embodied.
To many of his fans, he embodied the fundamental goodness that America once had, and somehow lost.
Throughout the play the extremes of cruelty and goodness embodied in the characters have been smoothed and softened, which would be more interesting if the actors could supply, in the place of the purity or the perfidy, more nuanced but equally vital interpretations.
If there was such a thing as a good Germany, it was now to be found in this country (proof of America's goodness), embodied in his person; if there was a Great Writer, not at all an American notion of what a writer is, it was he.
My mom said she desperately hoped I would be a girl so she could name me Karma--a name she felt embodied love and goodness and wisdom.
In the Abrahamic religions, for example, he writes, conventional doctrine holds that the Creator set out to embody some combination of goodness and righteousness, and to create a monument to His glory.
