New York City has long been ruled by a strange and unholy alliance of political leftists and big businessmen (Mayor Mike Bloomberg being today's perfect embodiment)." The result, Mr. Zinsmeister wrote, is "amoral liberalism with amoral capitalism" allied against "the traditional American mix of individualism and religion".
Mike Wallace has been the central figure at "60 Minutes" since its inception in 1968, CBS's embodiment of the unyielding interrogator.
The vice-president is the most uncompromising politician in today's Washington: an embodiment of ideological rigidity who not only has plenty of bones of his own, but also lots of other people's bones stored in the Old Executive Office Building.
The latter was conceptualised as Morgan's 'central motive state' (Morgan, 1943), and in Stellar's embodiment of this in an excitatory centre in the hypothalamus (Stellar, 1954).
Last year, a New York Post article contrasted Hillary Clinton's embodiment of the "campus 1960s" with the sense that Donald Trump was an unexpected throwback to the Rat Pack, those macho exemplars of everything the hippies wanted to sweep away.
In many ways, he's the embodiment of today's Republican party.
But for every "Gone With the Wind," or for any visual image as indelibly perfect as Terence Stamp's 1962 embodiment of Billy Budd, the other side of the coin may be a stiff, gaudy 1974 "Gatsby" with a frail, neurasthenic Daisy (Mia Farrow) who threatens to become inseparable from the role.
In a series of essays written early in her career, Iris Marion Young, (reprinted 2005), captured everyday experiences of women's embodiment.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan, held up by today's Republican field as the embodiment of American self-assurance, apologized for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
On the second day of the most recent Democratic National Convention, in July, members of a four-person panel suggested that gigging life was not only sustainable but the embodiment of today's progressive values.
