Sentence examples for epitomizing from inspiring English sources

Parisians take pride in thinking of their city as the epitome of the urban, and of themselves as epitomizing the urbane.

The 19th-century territorial seal of Washington had a detailed naturalistic scene with sea and mountains and a woman in the foreground epitomizing hope, surrounded by a log cabin, wagon, and fir forest.

Like Pliny and the Roman statesman Cato, Cassiodorus had been an administrator, and, while his predecessors had been engaged in interpreting and epitomizing the knowledge of the ancient world for the benefit of their own people, Cassiodorus realized the necessity for providing a new interpretation of this knowledge for the Goths, the new masters of Italy.

There his style changed radically, epitomizing the dichotomy that existed in 16th-century northern European painting.

Most of all, Richard of Gloucester is made out to be a villain epitomizing the very worst features of a chaotic century of civil strife.

Epitomizing this group's realist style is Lauro Olmo's La camisa (1962; The Shirt), which depicts unemployed workers too poverty-stricken to seek employment because doing so requires a clean shirt.

Derby is chiefly remembered as epitomizing the aristocratic amateur; he excelled in whatever he did: as a racehorse owner, as a benevolent if autocratic landowner, and as a scholar who won the chancellor's Latin verse prize at Oxford and published a blank verse translation of the Iliad (1864).

Thus the Hussite period became the central episode of Czech history, epitomizing the national and the religious struggle.

From this character derives the Russian term oblomovshchina, epitomizing the backwardness, inertia, and futility of 19th-century Russian society.

New Delhi, India, epitomizes this form of development.

The academic tendency of Vignola's mind is epitomized in his Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura of 1562, which remained a standard textbook on the architectural orders for three centuries.