Sentence examples for like embodiments from inspiring English sources

Here, even urban Scotland's most pinched neighbourhoods look like embodiments of order and optimism.

These owners, who seemed more like embodiments of numbers than actual humans, were prone to such phrases as the annoying "growing the company," the mind-boggling "sticky eyeballs on a platform" and the all-important "exit strategy".

In both tales, we are presented with a handsome, Gatsby-like embodiment of the American dream, only to discover he has control issues and a dark past (his biological mom was a whore!), and therefore he will not be remotely capable of real intimacy, vulnerability, love, etc.

But the same America has given the world stirring images of "spaceship Earth" and the Internet, the latter a web-like embodiment of Teilhard's noosphere.

In their campaigns, such organizations [as Invisible Children] have manipulated facts for strategic purposes, exaggerating the scale of LRA abductions and murders and emphasizing the LRA's use of innocent children as soldiers, and portraying Kony -- a brutal man, to be sure -- as uniquely awful, a Kurtz-like embodiment of evil.

In their campaigns, such organizations [as Invisible Children] have manipulated facts for strategic purposes, exaggerating the scale of LRA abductions and murders and emphasizing the LRA's use of innocent children as soldiers, and portraying Kony a brutal man, to be sure as uniquely awful, a Kurtz-like embodiment of evil.

This finding suggests that once an observer gains physical experience with a perceived (dance) movement, the relationship between liking and embodiment shifts to a positive direction, such that more executable movements are now more likable.

So the bad news is that the world is not yet redeemed, and our religions have at times acted more like the oppressors than like the embodiments of the liberatory energy they set out to embody.

How the other Moral Mazers feel about their chairman decamping can perhaps be gauged from the theme pointedly chosen for the first programme Buerk missed – loyalty – and from their answers when another Radio 4 show, PM, naughtily asked what they'd like the erstwhile embodiment of journalistic integrity to eat in the Bush Tucker Trial ("kangaroo testicles", said the Guardian's Giles Fraser).

El Greco's superb portraits, but, above all, his religious paintings, with their elongated figures rising like so many flames to heaven, seem like the embodiment of the most spiritual aspects of Spanish Catholicism.

Like, physical-embodiment-of-a-leather-jacket hot.