Sentence examples for it personifies from inspiring English sources

Television is by its nature a fictionalization of history; it personifies history as fable agreed upon.

That statue — which has been traditionally identified as Aphrodite, though there is a growing debate over whom it personifies — will be disassembled for transport and then reassembled in its new home.

It personifies what a horror movie is about.

It personifies the patriarchy in the cartoon character of a uniformed, thick-necked authority figure.

It's like a Greek tragedy: it personifies a psychological power which we all too often deny.

In doing so it personifies the character of Colonel Mathieu as one of the great paradoxes of post-war cinema: "Should we remain in Algeria?" is the question Mathieu poses.

It personified luxury, enveloped its occupants in supreme comfort and presented some of the best motive force engineered on the planet.

That claim was difficult to verify, but it personified Bragan's joy as a lifelong baseball man.

But the Li Gang case was hard to suppress, partly because it personified an enduring grievance: the belief that the powerful can flout the rules to which ordinary folk are forced to submit.

It has been generally well-acted by a top-drawer cast, but there remains a strange blankness to it, personified by Jim Sturgess as diffident spook Callum Ferguson, neither hero nor antihero – which may, of course, be the point.

Augustine said it personified impure men and procrastinators.