Sir Alec had one outstanding quality for his work as foreign secretary: to some foreigners he was the very embodiment of a moderate, British, Conservative tradition - although Americans missed a democratic touch in him.
Michael Caine gives one of his great performances as Fowler, the Times's Saigon correspondent, a study in weary cynicism; Do Thi Hai Yen is his young Vietnamese mistress, and as the mysterious American who crashes in on Fowler's subtle, compromised world, Brendan Fraser's Pyle is a walking, talking embodiment of hamfisted US foreign policy.
The handful of "Metric Martyrs"—traders that have faced prosecution have become heroes in some eyes for their struggle against that embodiment of evil: meddling, foreign-inspired officialdom.So what to do? Satisfying the preferences of the anti-metric lot means muddle for everyone else.
As an important embodiment of biomanipulation, injection of foreign materials (e.g., DNA, RNAi, sperm, protein, and drug compounds) into individual cells has significant implications in genetics, transgenics, assisted reproduction, and drug discovery.
In early 2001, he was often depicted as the embodiment of the spirit and foreign-policy prudence of past Republican administrations.
Now she will be one of the principal contenders in forming foreign policy and, after Mr. Bush himself, the most visible public embodiment of the United States abroad.
Clinton, in Putin's view, was worse the embodiment of the liberal interventionist strain of U.S. foreign policy, more hawkish than Obama, and an obstacle to ending sanctions and reëstablishing Russian geopolitical influence.
"Once a verdant colonial estate, and later developed as the embodiment of refined living, it is today also dotted with foreign diplomatic missions and consulates," the authors write, tracing Beekman Place's evolution early in the 20th century from an industrial district into one of the city's most exclusive and charming sanctuaries.
the embodiment of the dance?
Foreign, foreign, foreign.
