Within the K.G.B., Mr. Krassilnikov earned the nickname "the professor of counterintelligence," and some American intelligence officers who went up against him saw him as the real life embodiment of "Karla," the mysterious Soviet spymaster in the novels of John le Carré.
For many fans of the show, Northern Ireland has become the real life embodiment of Westeros.
Enter the Gmail Man, the real life embodiment of Google, strolling the streets looking through emails for key-words like "volcano", "zucchini" and "lava".
It is regrettable, however, that Munich's performing version did not include music for the opera singer Stella, Hoffmann's constant love interest and, in a sense, the real-life embodiment of the ones described in the tales.
We laugh at our peril, for the primary vector of Zika, a mosquito, has become the real-life embodiment of the alien bugs of the film Starship Troopers and must be obliterated from the face of this planet lest they devastate the population.
Phelps had abundant native gifts, but Bowman also saw in him an uncommon knack for responding to the kinds of pressure that make most children miserable, coupled with an absolute distaste for losing and a full-blown, true-to-life embodiment of swimming's flakiest and most vaunted concept: a feel for the water.
San Francisco, meanwhile, is the real-life embodiment of this goal realized; it is one of America's densest, most transit-oriented cities, and is primed to become more like this in coming decades because of the high demand for living there.
The dancers were a constant presence and force throughout the 50-minute set, a group of best friends, her personal hype-women and a real-life embodiment of Monáe's "black girl magic" message.
So, for all those who are rolling their eyes at the media hype, there are those of us who are enjoying it all as the come-to-life embodiment of the fairy tales that enchanted us when we were children.
I have lunch with Anji Hunter, Tony's peacemaker, and the living embodiment of life after politics.
His professional life was a living embodiment of the modern version of the Hippocratic Oath, to "remember that there is an art to medicine as well as science", "not treat a fever chart...but a sick human... .. and provide care with "warmth, sympathy and understanding".
