Sentence examples for instead of embodying from inspiring English sources

Instead of embodying the supposedly inherent superiority of capitalism, the supermarket demonstrated how it produced winners and losers.

Instead of embodying the triumphalism of "society," "Self Portrait at the Age of Sixty-three" is actually a tragic representation of one of its more obvious victims.

Yet as she delivers Winnie's logorrheic monologue to her mostly unseen companion, Willie (the excellent Ron Faber), the effect is of an actress presenting her character instead of embodying her.

Yet as she delivers Winnie's logorrheic monologue to her mostly unseen companion, Willie (the excellent Ron Faber), the effect is of an actress presenting her character instead of embodying her (1 45).

Otherwise a constitution, instead of embodying only relatively fundamental rules of right, as generally understood by all English-speaking communities, would become the partisan of a particular set of ethical or economical opinions, which by no means are held semper ubique et ab omnibus.

As he explained in his note to the actors in "Angel City" (1976), instead of embodying a "whole character" the actor should consider his performance "a fractured whole with bits and pieces of character flying off the central theme," and aim "to make a kind of music or painting in space without having to feel the need to completely answer intellectually for the character's behavior".

Most of the supporting performances have the leadenness of characters being impersonated instead of embodied.

Not until she finds the strength of will and body to create those perfect performances will she get the affirmation she craves, that she can be the best in the world instead of merely embodying a world of promise.

John Russell Taylor, art critic for The Times of London, likened Mr. Childs's technical ability to that of the Victorian painter Frederic Lord Leighton, adding that his work avoids sentiment but instead "revels in the sensuous possibilities of embodying the ancient myths" and also "seeks to imbue them with a becoming gravitas".

This is not a call to faith – it is a call to respect those of all faiths and not to allow faith to divide us but instead to embody the true values of compassion and humanity common to all faiths.

And a somewhat embarrassed city began to realize in Frazier's death what it had not during his life — that he was a flesh-and-blood heavyweight champion who deserved as much respect and remembrance as the celluloid hero named Rocky, who has come instead to embody Philadelphia's image of itself as a gritty, blue-collar place that favors effort over élan.