In Robert Mapplethorpe's "Fiddle Ferns" (1983), the taut spirals of young fern shoots read as the embodiment of coiled, pent-up energy.
Another tribute read: "Lance Corporal Oli Thomas was the embodiment of his generation - bright, gifted with an enquiring mind and laser focused on the task in-hand.
You can read the place as the embodiment of his mind: sweeping, curious, eclectic, overwhelming and sometimes downright odd.
It was possible to read these solemn women as embodiments of Ms. Hay's history.
Their patent application reads, in part, "Embodiments generate thermal energy by neutron generation, neutron capture and subsequent transport of excess binding energy as useful heat for any application".
Turning to the "enactivists", who would have consciousness as a collaboration between brain, body and object, the best books I have read are Andy Clark's Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension, and W Teed Rockwell's Neither Brain Nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory.
To abuse one of the oldest and most tawdry opening lines you can ever read, Japan is a land of contrasts; at once, the embodiment of patience and tranquility, and yet the land of ruthless, dogmatic efficiency.
Love is patient, love is kind: this is the visual embodiment of those great verses from Corinthians so often read at weddings.
"A big book inhabits the space you're in," he argues, "it's a physical embodiment of your intention to spend the time necessary to read it".
Knott's sense of himself as isolated and yet part of a hivelike whole found its final embodiment online, where many of his poems can still be read for free.
