The phrase "epitomize for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to represent or serve as the perfect example of something. Example: The stunning performance by the lead actor epitomized for the audience the true essence of the character he was portraying.
In the 1980's, the Soviet Union epitomized, for fundamentalist-minded Muslims, the abode of war.
Now in her early 40s, she has always cast a critical eye on the cultural drive toward consumption and power, epitomized for her in architecture.
He brought his tremendous warmth, deep intellect and wide ranging interests to the care of patients and in so doing epitomized, for all who knew him, the ideals of internal medicine.
To achieve this sort of focus requires the kind of appetite for victory that is epitomized, for Wilson, by a breed of championship racehorses, which in order to win "bite their own necks to get more oxygen".
With a light, agile voice and a sensitivity to the nuances of the French language, Mr. Vanzo epitomized for many people a flowering of the French vocal style in "Werther" by Massenet and "Faust" by Gounod.
People have said, for instance, "Why hasn't Sandy Weill been charged?" Well, there is no evidence that Sandy Weill — who I think has epitomized for many people the sort of corporate titan who built this entire system and benefitted from it and therefore should pay a price — there is no evidence that he knowingly encouraged or participated in disseminating any false recommendations.
The poetry of The Green Helmet (1910) and Responsibilities (1914), however, was marked not only by a more concrete and colloquial style but also by a growing isolation from the nationalist movement, for Yeats celebrated an aristocratic Ireland epitomized for him by the family and country house of his friend and patron, Lady Gregory.
"O.K., all of you, now tell me what's wrong with the following line: 'Her voice was so lovely and it always reminded him of Pablo Casals playing the cello.' " He didn't tell them that it was from "Across the River and Into the Trees," a novel that epitomized for him the worst of Hemingway.
Yet he served as an anchor for the quartet, leading the others on a spiritual quest toward Eastern philosophy that influenced their music in the latter part of the 1960's, epitomized for millions of fans by the sitar he played on "Norwegian Wood".
