Mr. Currin said, "Beyond that, Rockwell is so good because he epitomizes something, this one way of being American, and you have to accept that as a kind of quality".
Hackett believes that wrestling, with its "blue collar" celebrity, convoluted sexuality, and faked reality, epitomizes something essential about American culture, although his attempts to discuss these theories with the subjects themselves often prove comically inconclusive.
The food of Los Angeles, according Frank Bruni's recent assessment in the New York Times, epitomizes something about eating in America right now.
"This is very typical for Israel — something that epitomizes Israeli culture," said Avi Shilon, an Israeli historian who teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and N.Y.U.
We want something that epitomizes the spirit of adventure, fun, and hard work that it takes to make a cool hardware startup.
Genres epitomize the dilemma of the fiction film in that they promise to deliver to a waiting audience something that is similar to what that audience has enjoyed in the past and yet something that is also quite new and different.
The spirit epitomizes the fervid scene in the Bay Area: it is at once classic, with a 19th-century aesthetic, and innovative — something that had not been available at all, much less in this highly cultured form.
"When I opened the Soho Grand, I wanted something that had the industrial feel of the neighborhood," says Stern. "Kiehl's epitomizes downtown New York from the lotion-and-potion point of view".
In an interview for Westword, he later said, "We understood the magnitude of what an album was, so we set out to make something that not only epitomized the standard of an album, but would stand the test of time by being diverse with sounds and textures, and also being able to home in on the aspect of peaks and valleys".
For something that quickens your pulse, better, perhaps, to choose a book that focuses on a single cuisine or cooking philosophy, one that epitomizes the kind of cook you wish to be.
"You epitomize everything that this show is about".
