Sentence examples for personification from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile Mrs Prada – the living, breathing personification of the word zeitgeist – sent out invitations to view her new collections (notice the plural).

Hugh Quarshie's long-suffering character has seen and suffered so much since he joined the soap in 2001 that he feels like the personification of the best of the NHS: wearily irritable, still just about hanging on despite 25 government-initiated reorganizations (I exaggerate, but not much), still good at his job and still trying to be selfless - against the odds.

Who would have thought that a couple of bearded neo-hippies living in tents outside a cathedral in Belfast might just become more loved and respected by a populace disgusted over the banks' reckless lending rather than a billionaire businessman once seen as the personification of Celtic Tiger Man.

As justly reviled as he is by many, Emwazi is idolised by Isis recruits as the personification of jihadi cool.

According to John Cassidy of the New Yorker,The President and his strategists have fixed upon a populist campaign strategy that emphasizes inequality and unfairness, and which attempts to turn Romney, with his record as a "vulture capitalist" and his fourteen per cent tax rate, into the personification of these things.

Bernie Ebbers, the cowboy-booted chief executive of WorldCom, who became the personification of 1990s telecoms braggadocio, had come to say "sorry".

Drawing from Hitler's surroundings and context, Mr Mailer succeeds in re-humanising a man who has become a personification of evil.

That famous journalistic construct, "Essex man", was the personification of the values of 1980s Toryism: working-class, aspirational, entrepreneurial and patriotic.

So at least he is saved from the chance of an even greater embarrassment had he been found guilty of that crime while standing on the global stage as the honorific personification of Europe.

Mr Arafat's singular achievement is to have become, for all of them, the personification of the Palestinian cause.

For the personification of the change, behold John Major, Brixton-born and state-educated, who left school at 16 and is now prime minister.Our look at the backgrounds of the top people in Britain today suggests otherwise.