I can still remember treading carefully into the Cavaliers' locker room at the Richfield Coliseum one wintry night in 1978, hoping this champion of my own adolescence, this one-time embodiment of urban chic and cool, would cough up a few quotes on life in the Cleveland 'burbs.
Charles was our statesman of all time, the embodiment of benevolence, knowledge - even wisdom - always with a touch of humor.
Dr. Bunche, who was the first person of color to receive the prize, was in his time the embodiment of the United Nations peace operations.
Chronotope disruption captures at a higher level than biography the organization of meaning, and does not assume that fundaments of a life narrative will change with the onset of chronic illness, while being sensitive to the inherent chronicity (time) and embodiment (space) of long-term illness, however it is storied.
"If it has become at times the embodiment of the worst of that tradition, it has also embodied the best".
Obama, he argues, is a "work in progress," at times an embodiment of the most expansive progressive hopes, at other points a moderate centrist moving cautiously and politically through the thickets of his time.
A member of the Force could buy his discharge before the end of his term by giving three months notice and paying a sum of up to five pounds, except in times of embodiment for service, and could be discharged for disobedience to orders or misconduct as judged by his commanding officer.
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He is, as presidential scholar Clinton Rossiter observed, and I quote, "the one-man distillation of the American people" and, as President Taft said at another time, the personal embodiment and representative of their dignity and majesty.
It's too easy, never mind wrong, to typecast him simply as a pretty-boy actor who happened to be in the right place at the right time – the living embodiment of the dumb, feckless character he played in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, the film that first charmed a predominantly teenage fanbase back in 1989.
After all, he specialized in playing with the paradoxes of Eastern spirituality, like being told to transcend our bodily identities and realize the infinite self, while at the same time cherishing our embodiment and enjoying the pleasures of the senses -- as the roguish Watts emphatically did in his Sausalito houseboat and Esalen hot tubs and bomehian enclaves everywhere.
