Sentence examples for like the embodiment from inspiring English sources

In some ways, she feels like the embodiment of an urban legend.

She once said taking pictures of famous men was like "the embodiment of a prayer".

(Note how, in the Republican debates, the word "Europe" is made to sound like the embodiment of "Soviet").

Speaking by telephone from her home in London, the British actress Geraldine McEwan sounds like the embodiment of grandmotherly sweetness.

At the age of eighty-one, with a shock of white hair framing a hawklike face, Dohnányi looked like the embodiment of prewar German Kultur.

They close with seismic, juddering 1989 single Wrote for Luck, which as ever sounds like the embodiment of the darkness at the heart of the acid house dream.

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).

Gatsby is something of an east coast Frederic Remington, re-inventing the domesticated edges to his own liking, drawing the embodiment of the American dream that is built on champagne bubbles and moody green lighting.

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.

Uncle Junior is Nestor-like, the very embodiment of wisdom, no?

They include both humans who spread disorder and cosmic powers like Apep, the embodiment of chaos, whom Ra and the gods who accompany him in his barque are said to combat every night.