Sentence examples for modern embodiment from inspiring English sources

Dinner parties – whether formal affairs with placements and tablecloths, cheese courses and decanters – or the more modern embodiment, the "kitchen supper", are the fabric of society.

Quieter, less stagy, more relaxed, Foulds constructs a prose that stealthily inspirits (to use a good nineteenth-century verb) the age he is writing about but does not abandon a modern embodiment.

In every civilisation, there has always been [the concept of] asylum – in Greek tragedy, in the Bible – [and] the refugee convention is an modern embodiment of this age-old asylum tradition.

Although his cold, flinty eyes hint at sociopathic derangement, we initially cling to the image he presents of himself: the modern embodiment of Hollywood's laconic, soft-spoken cowboy hero.

Ukip's first elected MP, who characterised himself as the modern embodiment of radical Gladstonian liberalism, set himself at odds with Farage when he declined to offer a specific endorsement of his call for a ban on migrants with HIV from entering the UK.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in Agent 007's favorite realm, the casino: James Bond could be seen as a modern embodiment of the agonistic spirit, of Nietzsche's assertion that "the cruelty of victory is the pinnacle of life's jubilation".

Gwyneth Paltrow: modern-day genius or embodiment of modern day ills?

A modern metaphor for embodiment is the central theme in the 2009 film Avatar, 'I See you'.

Witanhurst may still look like a grand English estate, but, with so many of its riches buried below the surface, its design is distinctly modern — the architectural embodiment of an offshore account.

In this new era, there is a certain stifling calm, a disinterest in politics…The embodiment of modern times in Russia is its President, Vladimir Putin, who is a bureaucrat thrust forward in history.

But the emergent modern world has its embodiment too, and she nearly steals the film.