An adaptation of the 1941 James M. Cain novel, it is also a revision of the mother of all mother movies, directed by Michael Curtiz in 1945 and starring an Oscar-winning Joan Crawford as Mildred, the long-suffering embodiment of maternal sacrifice.
The Israelites recalling the promised land by the River Euphrates; Niobe condemned to eternal mourning for her lost children, transformed into a rocky waterfall; Picasso's Dora Marr transformed into the iconic weeping woman, the embodiment of suffering in wartime; King Lear railing against his treacherous tears that "un -man him".
Case Winters acknowledges that his metaphor maintains God's personal nature, offers a coherent way to talk about God's knowledge of and action in the world, recognizes God's vulnerable suffering love, and revalues nature and embodiment.
In the novel's vision of undying romantic obsession, Florentino is both the embodiment of passion ennobled by suffering and a ridiculous clown afflicted with the disease of passion, for which cholera is a pungent metaphor.
Suffering from violent headaches, Oswald is the physical embodiment of his late father's various debaucheries, while Helene lives in the bitterness of the past and certain stunted desires.
To the contrary, Wendell thinks, an adequate philosophical account of embodiment will appreciate identities inflected by suffering without glorifying or sugar-coating the debilitating dimensions of perpetual exhaustion and discomfort.
Israel would be the saviour of humanity and the national embodiment of the messiah, even if this meant suffering for Israel in the performance of its divinely appointed mission.
To enter into the Good Friday narrative, of Jesus, Suffering Servant, a human being who is "Beloved" of God, who is the embodiment of a loving God, who has done everything right, and gets tortured for it?
Calm, patient, the embodiment of laid-back, nothing seems to phase him -- except seeing his fellow interpreters abused and suffering.
