But it embodies something very disturbing – Mr Cameron's willingness to pretend drawbridges can be pulled up against the world.
He starts off in the first episode by telling us: "I believe that architecture reaches lyrical heights when it embodies something more than functional utility, something more than bricks and mortar.
Entrepreneurship goes beyond Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Garrett Camp, and it embodies something bigger than Twitter and WhatsApp.
We've taken flack because everyone had called it, 'The Bomb.' We named the machine 'Christopher' because it embodies something that we wanted to express in the film, an emotional truth".
Columbia understands that there is a stark difference between diligently standing before a metal sculpture that one may acknowledge as aesthetically pleasing, and taking the time to walk around it and conclude that it embodies something deeper and possibly more intense.
Yet, in its cumbersome way, the Parliament embodied something important: the hard trade-offs of European construction, union conjured from Babel.
But whereas the Webster put an idea of leafy Miami chic on the contemporary map (it sells tropics-friendly pieces from Chanel, Balmain and other labels), Alchemist embodied something edgier, introducing brands like Rick Owens and Chrome Hearts to the market.
To the French, Mitterrand embodied something reassuring: "eternal France", or "a tranquil force", his campaign slogan.
He embodied something solid amid the filmy values of contemporary art.
In the early part of that decade, Antonioni (who died three summers ago) made a loosely linked trilogy — "L'Avventura," "La Notte" and "L'Eclisse" — that embodied something central to both the era's intellectual sensibility and its visual style.
Indeed our devotion to that book embodied something quite Flann-esque: feckless students wasting their time by drinking and chatting about a feckless student wasting his time by drinking and chatting, et cetera, et cetera..
