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.
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.
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".
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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".
With its mongrel mixture of media, its peacock displays of frivolous virtuosity, its irredeemable irreality and its reliance on the most blatant and inflexible conventions, it epitomized for Tolstoy the ultimate degradation of art and stood as a metaphor for falsity in social relations.
From vulnerable Hollywood ingenue to defiant AIDS activist-pioneer, Liz epitomized for average women around the world the larger-than-life experience and crucial historical placement required to embody and represent the shifting identification of Western women from passive sexual objects to active political subjects.
