If Yves Saint Laurent can be said to have personified not only the stereotype of fashion designer as tormented soul but also to have parodied it, it is not because he lacked for either genius or demons.
Rosa Luxemburg personified someone who not only saw herself as part of an expanded community of fate but attempted to build one.
The uncompromising Mr. Leigh not only personifies that spirit in his very mien, but, as a late night conversation with Leigh groupies confirmed, he's also an inspiration to young filmmakers seeking to follow in his fiercely original footsteps.
Iago's love of secrecy is all the more disturbing because it contrasts so starkly with the openness and candor personified by Othello, who not only believes all men "shouldst be honest," but seems to think many really are.
Finally, there is Obama – the black son of an African immigrant and white mother – who stands as an emblem for all this unease, personifying, in their minds, not only their political impotence today but their demographic irrelevance tomorrow.
It is confusing, as personified in the film, not only for the child to understand what they are feeling, but also for the parents to understand and try to help.
Personifying their illness seems to not only bring these young women together but to also validate and glorify the condition in the process.
Not only does it personify the Republican budgetary ideals, but by "branding" it in such a fashion, more and more people are starting to hear about the details.
Not only is Fry ubiquitous, but he personifies the trend for TV to hire celebrity presenters to pull in the punters.
Peter Lovesey wrote in The Kings of Distance: A Study of Five Great Runners that Nurmi "accelerated the progress of world records; developed and actually came to personify the analytic approach to running; and he was a profound influence not only in Finland, but throughout the world of athletics.
