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Rubens was able to infuse his own astounding vitality into a powerful and exuberant style that came to epitomize the Baroque art of the 17th century.
For many, she came to epitomize the endemic growth in the public's fascination with celebrities, catered to by paparazzi and tabloid journalism and fueled by gossip and scandal.
His life and achievements epitomize the ideal of applied research.
The combination of all the aforementioned structural elements into a coherent style first occurred in the Île-de-France (the region around Paris), where prosperous urban populations had sufficient wealth to build the great cathedrals that epitomize the Gothic style.
Georgia, with the greatest number of large plantations of any state in the South, had in many respects come to epitomize plantation culture.
The Lenten sermons, abundant with biblical citations and paraphrases, epitomize Baroque eloquence; yet, while they exhibit the majesty and the pathos of the Baroque ideal, the exaggeration and mannerism are conspicuously absent.
Considering the religious past of the Slavs, it is not surprising that manism was strong enough to epitomize and overwhelm all or practically all of their religious views.
Moreover, her increasing fascination with the inherently abstract character of the stark and barren hills of a region that she called the Black Place, some 150 miles (240 km) west of Ghost Ranch, led to a series of paintings that epitomize a new resolution with abstraction.
Figures such as Desiderius Erasmus in the 16th century and Hugo Grotius in the 17th century epitomize that spirit.
Joris-Karl Huysmans, original name Charles-Marie-Georges Charles-Marie-Georges Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans12, 1907, Paris) French writer whose major novels epitomize successive phases of the aesthetic, spiritual, and intellectual life of late 19th-century France.
Manet, who is for many the first truly modern painter, seemed to epitomize this antiauthoritarian, counterestablishment attitude, by reason of his harsh Realism, for example, in the notorious, sexually suggestive Olympia (1863), as well as in the apparent Impressionism of such works as Chez Pére Lathuille (1879) and White Lilac in a Glass (1880).
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The verb "epitomize " functions to assert that something is a perfect or ideal example of a particular quality, characteristic, or idea . According to Ludwig AI, this word is correct and frequently used in written English. The examples provided by Ludwig show it across different contexts, highlighting its ability to represent the best instance of something.
Expression frequency: Very common
