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  • Death incarnate.†   (source)
  • Even far away, he looked like purity incarnate.†   (source)
  • Surely it was not too childish to say there had to be a story; and this was the story of a man whom everybody liked, but about whom the heroine always had her doubts, and finally she was able to reveal that he was the incarnation of evil.†   (source)
  • He no longer wanted to be Jimmy, or even Jim, and especially not Thickney: his incarnation as Thickney hadn't worked out well.†   (source)
  • I can determine my own next incarnation.†   (source)
  • Jack, on the other hand, is Karen's twin incarnate, so he doesn't mind the cooking.†   (source)
  • His earlier incarnations--the decadent Capitol heartthrob I met before the Quell, the enigmatic ally in the arena, the broken young man who tried to help me hold it together--these have been replaced by someone who radiates life.†   (source)
  • He could say that he honestly didn't feel jealous of George, or envy him his good looks; in fact, he had almost unconsciously begun to visualize George as the physical incarnation of his play hero, Gary Benson — the perfect foil for the dark, slumped, and aging Denker, who grew to hate Gary so much.†   (source)
  • The sea is emotion incarnate.†   (source)
  • Framed diplomas and health certifications hung on the wall, as well as old photographs of the building in its original incarnation, with beaming girls posed in white frocks.†   (source)
  • In the fluttering red robes, stretched to his full height, the Shrike priest now towered over Sol like crimson death incarnate.†   (source)
  • "But honestly," I teased, "for that to bother you, after I have to hear that Rosalie — Rosalie, the incarnation of pure beauty, Rosalie — was meant for you.†   (source)
  • And then they thought I might be the devil incarnate, and I had to keep telling them I was a doctor, anything to stop them believing I was a special warrior from the U.S. Armed Forces, a man who sported a symbol of a powerful voodoo on his back, which was surely evil and would definitely, one day, wipe them all out.†   (source)
  • That's what this figure really comes down to, whether in Elizabethan, Victorian, or more modern incarnations: exploitation in its many forms.†   (source)
  • In the guise of televised entertainment, episodes of Disneyland were often thinly disguised infomercials, promoting films, books, toys, an amusement park — and, most of all, Disney himself, the living, breathing incarnation of a brand, the man who neatly tied all the other commodities together into one cheerful, friendly, patriotic idea.†   (source)
  • After the phone call, my mom lay on her bed, shaking her head while sobbing in-between bursts of how God had cursed her for some sin, how I was the devil incarnate, a plague, testing her in this brief tenure on earth.†   (source)
  • His new incarnation shall be his greatest yet.†   (source)
  • "It's their latest incarnation," Cal commented.†   (source)
  • Trust Minerva's incarnation to confront Dede with the question she herself has avoided.†   (source)
  • Her celebrity derives not from her present occupation but a previous one-dance-hall hostess, an incarnation not indicated by her appearance.†   (source)
  • Not Bree, not Kristina, but some evil incarnation glaring back at me, a horrid red-eyed crone, materialized as if from darkest dementia, nightmares to come, hibernating inside of me.†   (source)
  • The Ebola virus, in its Sudan incarnation, retreated to the heart of the bush, where undoubtedly it lives to this day, cycling and cycling in some unknown host, able to shift its shape, able to mutate and become a new thing, with the potential to enter the human species in a new form.†   (source)
  • Her head had bobbed up like an apple on a string, and her eyes fixed on me as if she had seen the Lord incarnate.†   (source)
  • If the gods were incarnations of the mountains and rivers around us, or whether they drew their power from those sources, I couldn't say.†   (source)
  • Half one days trekking," said the man, who was an unmistakable incarnation of his father, minus the beard.†   (source)
  • I really did hope this was my mother's last marriage: I wasn't sure she, or I, could take another incarnation.†   (source)
  • The flagraising on Iwo Jima became a symbol of the island, the mountain, the battle; of World War II; of the highest ideals of the nation, of valor incarnate.†   (source)
  • They stared at each other in silence for several seconds, each thinking that the other was the very incarnation of everything most hateful in the world, but unable to find the old fire of hatred in their hearts.†   (source)
  • The high school stadium had been t ransformed into a carnival this year, which was much b etter than previous incarnations of the Freedom Fest.†   (source)
  • In doing so, he made his knowledge incarnate.†   (source)
  • No matter, the man was energy incarnate and, like most agents, positively buzzed with fervent optimism.†   (source)
  • "Believe me," Maggie said, "I'm the last person in the world to buy into the belief that Shay Bourne is Jesus incarnate—"†   (source)
  • Lucky came to the field to check up on the newest incarnation of the Brooklyn Dodgers.†   (source)
  • And each of us is as in our own incarnation: a soul inside a body.†   (source)
  • Now though, according to the account Annie read, he was a "fiend incarnate" and wore an eight-pound iron muzzle to stop him killing too many stableboys.†   (source)
  • The mad boy in his new incarnation was not the only threat they faced.†   (source)
  • That you are the devil incarnate?†   (source)
  • In her literal incarnation she was a strong cultural force as the nation expanded to the west, but a metaphorical schoolmarm was congenial to the American yearning for propriety and gentility, for a homegrown culture that would not be derided by the older cultures of Europe.†   (source)
  • Cudn Hope laughed, but Papa looked like he'd just heard heresy incarnate.†   (source)
  • He was righteous indignation incarnate, a man who not only walked his talk, but took every opportunity to share his beliefs with the world.†   (source)
  • I was deeply impressionable and unassuming and full of dread, knowing little else but whatever was provided to me by professional men like the doctor, who were authoritative and born into an elite caste, and who seemed the very incarnation of our meticulously constructed way of life.†   (source)
  • When the invitation arrived, it was sealed with wax and tied with the kind of cord that, in a thicker incarnation, was used in draperies in the dining rooms of expensive hotels.†   (source)
  • She also reminded herself that some of our connections are brand-new connections, unrelated to our past incarnations—new experiences to broaden our horizons.†   (source)
  • He is Satan incarnate.†   (source)
  • Buy me this and buy me that — demons incarnate in my opinion.†   (source)
  • Somewhere along the line—in one damn incarnation or another, if you like—you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress but to be a good one.†   (source)
  • All of the governments of Latin America were behind the distribution. even those that called the U.S. and the West evil incarnate.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Ralph thought of her as Yang Guifei incarnate that's a Tang Dynasty courtesan for whom an emperor went to ruin.†   (source)
  • No true head, no eyes, no face, so low in its level of incarnation it did not have the shape of a recognizable animal.†   (source)
  • ANNIE moves to comfort her, but her touch sends HELEN into a paroxysm of rage: she tears away, falls over her box of toys, flings the box too, reels to her feet, rips curtains from the window, bangs and kicks at the door, sweeps objects off the mantelpiece and shelf, a little tornado incarnate, all destruction, until she comes upon her doll and, in the act of hurling it, freezes.†   (source)
  • The record would be created and I would have existence in any incarnation I desired.†   (source)
  • Every child in the room knew the legend of Oz by heart, the importance of the yellow-brick road, the incarnate evil of the wicked Witch of the West, and the ultimate hypocrisy of the great wizard himself.†   (source)
  • It is unlikely for one of us to see the other again in this incarnation.†   (source)
  • He had always wanted to describe how for three days the black, raging, worm-filled earth had assailed the deathless incarnation of love, storming it with rocks and rubble-as waves fly and leap at a seacoast, cover and submerge it-how for three days the black hurricane of earth raged, advancing and retreating.†   (source)
  • He's enjoying this, I thought bitterly, he's imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales.   (source)
  • And all at once a great synthetic bass boomed out the words which announced the approaching atonement and final consummation of solidarity, the coming of the Twelve-in-One, the incarnation of the Greater Being.   (source)
    incarnation = made real in a material sense
  • Drawn by the fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet.   (source)
    incarnation = embodiment
  • Necessity compelled me to seek shelter here; though, if I had not learned he was out of the way, I'd have halted at the kitchen, washed my face, warmed myself, got you to bring what I wanted, and departed again to anywhere out of the reach of my accursed — of that incarnate goblin!   (source)
    incarnate = embodied
  • I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic.   (source)
  • I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh will become his greatest incarnation of all.†   (source)
  • We were waiting, always, for the incarnation.†   (source)
  • In another incarnation, in another age, you were my treacherous wife.†   (source)
  • She is the incarnation of the sun's wrath.†   (source)
  • The perfect sword is intent incarnate: what you want, so it does.†   (source)
  • He must have been intrigued by a talent that could defy him in its human incarnation.†   (source)
  • They sounded so familiar, somehow, as if I knew them in a different incarnation.†   (source)
  • Or the names of his incarnations—his avatars, if you want to get technical.†   (source)
  • Said I must be the Devil Incarnate, or at least his agent, cause I shore warn't no True Believer.†   (source)
  • No one knew Helba's true sex, for Helba's was the habit of alternating gender with each incarnation.†   (source)
  • During this period they appeared, in my eyes, as evil incarnate.†   (source)
  • "It has taken you seventeen incarnations to arrive at this truth?" said Yama.†   (source)
  • It was said that her blessing would ensure one's being incarnated as a Brahmin.†   (source)
  • They cast aspersions upon the probity of those who authorized incarnation.†   (source)
  • Might I suggest that he be incarnated as a jackbird?†   (source)
  • By the way, in your last incarnation I did try to save you from the cats out of Kaniburrha.†   (source)
  • Go now and summon my priest, that I may instruct him concerning your incarnation.†   (source)
  • … her exemplary conduct during the whole of her thirty years incarceration in the penitentiary the later portion of which she spent as a trusted inmate of the home of the Governor, and that so large a number of influential Gentlemen in Kingston should think that she merited and deserved a pardon, all tend to show that there is room for grave doubts as to her having been the awful female demon incarnate, that McDermott tried to make the public believe that she was.†   (source)
  • The bitterness and alcohol and depression are stripped away from these phantom incarnations, and they console and protect me in death as they never did in life.†   (source)
  • To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.†   (source)
  • In fact, it was not the boys who were on her mind, but their mother, her sister, or rather her incarnation within the wiry frame of Lola.†   (source)
  • But I stopped cold when I saw Leopardon, the giant transforming robot used by Supaidaman, the incarnation of Spider-Man who appeared on Japanese TV in the late 1970s.†   (source)
  • Gods with infinite memories visited girl children on women who needed to be punished for sins committed in other incarnations.†   (source)
  • If thirst can be so taxing that even God Incarnate complains about it, imagine the effect on a regular human.†   (source)
  • But how to protect her against failure, against that Lola, the incarnation of Emily's youngest sister who had been just as precocious and scheming at that age, and who had recently plotted her way out of a marriage, into what she wanted everyone to call a nervous breakdown.†   (source)
  • And I do believe that extraordinary events can jar the needle arm, jump tracks, rip across incarnations, and deposit a life into a groove that was not prepared to receive it.†   (source)
  • She'd even been to the Underworld; but Percy's story about freeing the incarnation of death itself really creeped her out.†   (source)
  • Sometimes real girls are an alternative to these words and sometimes they're an incarnation of them, and sometimes they're just background noise.†   (source)
  • This whole twisted landscape—the dome, pit, or whatever you called it—was the body of the god Tartarus—the most ancient incarnation of evil.†   (source)
  • He was hatred incarnate.†   (source)
  • In her new, more mature incarnation, she embraced the idea that maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark in the world.†   (source)
  • But when that writer, the sole living author of my DNA, stood peering over my shoulder, it was flesh that became incarnate, flesh of my flesh, with a scent that I should have recognized as kin and a voice that was my inheritance.†   (source)
  • The bad news was that Judge Haig didn't like him very much—and had in the forefront of his mind my witness's former incarnation as an atheist showboat, when I really wanted him to be seen as a grave and credible historian.†   (source)
  • However, they are not citizens of those or any other such nations, nor can American law in its present incarnation view them in such a light.†   (source)
  • Suribachi was the devil incarnate, "seeping steam and volcanic fumes," and the Japanese "were rolling grenades down the steep tawny cliffs to burst in the faces of advancing Marines" as the embattled Marines "called for ropes and stretchers to lower the wounded over the sharp cliffs."†   (source)
  • Incarnate.†   (source)
  • And then, too, it is a profoundly arresting thing to realize the exact mode and matter of one's own life at the very moment it is becoming incarnate and true, namely, how after you have pushed aside and pushed aside and pushed aside again, the old beacons will bob up once more, dotting the waters before you like a glowing ring of fire.†   (source)
  • Pull as he might, it remained a luminous rising in the twilit air, like a stairway to nowhere, or the headless incarnation of a jack-in-the-box.†   (source)
  • Walt once told Waker that everybody in the family must have piled up one helluva lot of bad karma in his past incarnations.†   (source)
  • If she and Grandpa were romancing, it sure would put a crimp in things to have jealousy Incarnate underfoot.†   (source)
  • " The crowd cheered: they'd been playing Bendo long enough now that "The Potato Song," and its many incarnations, was known.†   (source)
  • We could not permit them to continue their attempts to possess the machines of incarnation and the bodies of men.†   (source)
  • He only knew that his previous life (in the first moment when he thought about it, this past life seemed to him like a very old, previous incarnation, like an early pre-birth of his present self)—that his previous life had been abandoned by him, that, full of disgust and wretchedness, he had even intended to throw his life away, but that by a river, under a coconut-tree, he has come to his senses, the holy word Om on his lips, that then he had fallen asleep and had now woken up and was…†   (source)
  • Why else in recent years would the god Vishnu be moved to incarnate among men, other than to teach them the Way of Enlightenment?†   (source)
  • It is only during those seasons of life when I incarnate as a man, Sam, that I wield my Attribute and engage in actual plunder.†   (source)
  • Hating this thing, he had elected to incarnate time after time as an eminently masculine man, did so, and still felt somehow inadequate, as though the mark of his true sex were branded upon his brow.†   (source)
  • The power of most of the gods, however, is predicated upon a special physiology, which they lose in part when incarnated into a new body.†   (source)
  • Others dared to say that the best of men never achieve godhood, but meet ultimately with the real death or incarnation into a lower life form.†   (source)
  • The Lady Ratri was banished from the City and sentenced to walk the world as a mortal, always to be incarnated into middle-aged bodies of more than usually plain appearance, bodies that could not bear the full power of her Aspect or Attributes.†   (source)
  • ' "Other than we priests, when the calendar of devotions requires it, and an occasional townsman, when a loved one is upon the death-bed and has been refused direct incarnation-other than these, no, I have never seen sacrifice made to Yama, simply, sincerely, with good will or affection."†   (source)
  • And when she took Morgan, the poet of the plains, as her lover — he who one day incarnated as a jackbird and flew away-you then hunted jackbirds, until inside a month with your arrows you had slain near every one in Heaven.†   (source)
  • He is judged, and if he has done well, observing the rules and restrictions of his caste, paying the proper observances to Heaven, advancing himself intellectually and morally, then this man will be incarnated into a higher caste, eventually achieving godhood itself and coming to dwell here in the City.†   (source)
  • Indeed, this young hero was none other than the Future Buddha, in an earlier incarnation.†   (source)
  • Such ease distinguishes numerous fairy tales and all legends of the deeds of incarnate gods.†   (source)
  • Then the god realized that the opponent must be an incarnation of the Primal Being.†   (source)
  • The work of the incarnation is to refute by his presence the pretensions of the tyrant ogre.†   (source)
  • Reynard the Fox is a European incarnation of this figure.†   (source)
  • No, in all conscience, there was no power in the world that could prevail with me to go through the mortal terror of another encounter with myself, to face another reorganisation, a new incarnation, when at the end of the road there was no peace or quiet—but forever destroying the self, in order to renew the self.†   (source)
  • There will be images derived from pictures of the Enemy as He appeared during the discreditable episode known as the Incarnation: there will be vaguer--perhaps quite savage and puerile-images associated with the other two Persons.†   (source)
  • You mean that this man-this-this fiend incarnate-this bloodthirsty madman has been following me about waiting for an opportunity?†   (source)
  • I have fallen into the hands of fiends incarnate, more savage, more cruel, more abominable than the beasts of the field.†   (source)
  • The heroes of the epics of India are not individuals, but whole reels of individualities in a series of incarnations.†   (source)
  • The people yearn for some personality who, in a world of twisted bodies and souls, will represent again the lines of the incarnate image.†   (source)
  • The hero who can take her as she is, without undue commotion but with the kindness and assurance she requires, is potentially the king, the incarnate god, of her created world.†   (source)
  • Uncomprehended inherited themes, such as that of the Minotaur—the dark and terrible night aspect of an old Egypto-Cretan representation of the incarnate sun god and divine king—were rationalized and reinterpreted to suit contemporary ends.†   (source)
  • The meeting with the goddess (who is incarnate in every woman) is the final test of the talent of the hero to win the boon of love (charity: amor fati), which is life itself enjoyed as the encasement of eternity.†   (source)
  • His awakening came—but with a surprising turn that throws into new perspective the whole problem of the hero-circuit, as well as the mystery of the mighty king's request for sleep as the highest conceivable boon, Visnu, the Lord of the World, had become incarnate in the person of a beautiful youth named Krsna (Krishna), who having saved the land of India from a tyrannical race of demons, had assumed the throne.†   (source)
  • In the presentchapter, therefore, we shall consider first the miraculous childhood, by which it is shown that a special manifestation of the immanent divine principle has become incarnate in the world, and then, in succession, the various life roles through which the hero may enact his work of destiny.†   (source)
  • Heroes of this second, highest illumination are the world redeemers, the so-called incarnations, in the highest sense.†   (source)
  • They have stepped away from the realm of forms, into which the incarnation descends and in which the Bodhisattva remains, the realmFIGURE 75.†   (source)
  • However, when the hero in question is a great patriarch, wizard, prophet, or incarnation, the wonders are permitted to develop beyond all bounds.†   (source)
  • * The Lord, the beautiful youth Krsna, is an incarnation of Visnu, the Universal God; Prince Arjuna is his disciple and friend.†   (source)
  • The latter has occluded the source of grace with the shadow of his limited personality; the incarnation, utterly free of such ego-consciousness, is a direct manifestation of the law.†   (source)
  • Now is required no incarnation of the Moon Bull, no Serpent Wisdom of the Eight Diagrams of Destiny, but a perfect human spirit alert to the needs and hopes of the heart.†   (source)
  • The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.†   (source)
  • Mahayana Buddhism, on the other hand (the Buddhism of the north), regards the Enlightened One as a world savior, an incarnation of the universal principle of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • And in modern progressive Christianity the Christ—Incarnation of the Logos and Redeemer of the World—is primarily a historical personage, a harmless country wise man of the semi-Oriental past who preached a benign doctrine of "do as you would be done by," yet was executed as a criminal.†   (source)
  • And among other things, he sought to discredit what the priest had been teaching concerning the Incarnation, declaring that it had not yet come to pass; but that presently the Sun would bring it to pass by taking flesh in the womb of a virgin of the village of Guacheta, causing her to conceive by the rays of the sun while she yet remained a virgin.†   (source)
  • For she is the incarnation of the promise of perfection; the soul's assurance that, at the conclusion of its exile in a world of organized inadequacies, the bliss that once was known will be known again; the comforting, the nourishing, the "good" mother—young and beautiful—who was known to us, and even tasted, in the remotest past.†   (source)
  • Again, the figure may be that of the cosmic man or woman (for example the Buddha himself, or the dancing Hindu goddess Kali) seated or standing on this spot, or even fixed to the tree (Attis, Jesus, Wotan); for the hero as the incarnation of God is himself the navel of the world, the umbilical point through which the energies of eternity break into time.†   (source)
  • His parents were already followers of a much earlier Jaina savior-prophet, Pargvanatha, who is represented with snakes springing from his shoulders and is reputed to have flourished 872-772 B.C. Centuries before ParSvanatha, there lived and died the Jaina savior Neminatha, declared to have been a cousin of the beloved Hindu incarnation Krsna.†   (source)
  • At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.†   (source)
  • She had emerged Iron sorrow to be the incarnation of joy and loveliness.†   (source)
  • My dear, you are the incarnation of morality.†   (source)
  • Jane Withersteen was the incarnation of selflessness.†   (source)
  • He was not the visible, tangible incarnation of unfailing truth and of unfailing victory.†   (source)
  • Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation.†   (source)
  • I daresay you all want to marry lovely incarnations of music and painting and poetry.†   (source)
  • Her mistress stood by, and mocked at her like an incarnate fiend.†   (source)
  • He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly.†   (source)
  • She is a heavenly angel incarnate …. who has flown down to us mortals, … if you can understand.†   (source)
  • Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas.†   (source)
  • He might have been called a Life drenched with the wisdom of Brahma—Devotion Incarnate.†   (source)
  • She'll think of me as an incarnate insult to her, from the first moment we—"†   (source)
  • I state the extreme case, of course; but what is true of the great man who incarnates the philosophic consciousness of Life and the woman who incarnates its fecundity, is true in some degree of all geniuses and all women.†   (source)
  • When Jurgis had made himself familiar with the Socialist literature, as he would very quickly, he would get glimpses of the Beef Trust from all sorts of aspects, and he would find it everywhere the same; it was the incarnation of blind and insensate Greed.†   (source)
  • I hate you, Gavrila Ardalionovitch, solely (this may seem curious to you, but I repeat)—solely because you are the type, and incarnation, and head, and crown of the most impudent, the most self-satisfied, the most vulgar and detestable form of commonplaceness.†   (source)
  • The kitchen-maid was an abstract personality, a permanent institution to which an invariable set of attributes assured a sort of fixity and continuity and identity throughout the long series of transitory human shapes in which that personality was incarnate; for we never found the same girl there two years running.†   (source)
  • She had dreamed of an aged and dignified face, the sublimation of all the d'Urberville lineaments, furrowed with incarnate memories representing in hieroglyphic the centuries of her family's and England's history.†   (source)
  • There was a "bourgeoisiosity" of life, whose monumental genius was indisputable, a philistine majesty, which one might well consider worthy of respect, as long as one realized that as it stood there in all its dignity, legs astraddle, hands at its back, chest thrust forward, it was the incarnation of irreligiosity.†   (source)
  • And while the whole face was the incarnation of fierceness and strength, the primal melancholy from which he suffered seemed to greaten the lines of mouth and eye and brow, seemed to give a largeness and completeness which otherwise the face would have lacked.†   (source)
  • But no matter how Spitz circled, Joe whirled around on his heels to face him, mane bristling, ears laid back, lips writhing and snarling, jaws clipping together as fast as he could snap, and eyes diabolically gleaming—the incarnation of belligerent fear.†   (source)
  • You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.†   (source)
  • But now lying between the two guns, as nipped in the vice of fate, Billy's agony, mainly proceeding from a generous young heart's virgin experience of the diabolical incarnate and effective in some men—the tension of that agony was over now.†   (source)
  • He writhed weirdly on his mat, gesticulating with his hands and feet, tossing the tangled strings of his mop—an impotent incarnation of rage.†   (source)
  • "Because they went into your pocket!" gasped the old woman, looking at him as if he were the devil incarnate.†   (source)
  • He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence.†   (source)
  • He was a devil incarnate.†   (source)
  • And indeed Naphta was clever at making his points, turning a hymn of praise into something diabolic and presenting himself as the incarnation of abiding, disciplined love, so that once again it had become a pure impossibility to decide where God and the Devil, life and death, were to be found.†   (source)
  • …they called to my mind the figure of the dryad, the fair worldling, swiftly walking, brightly coloured, whom they sheltered with their branches as she passed beneath them, and obliged to acknowledge, as they themselves acknowledged, the power of the season; they recalled to me the happy days when I was young and had faith, when I would hasten eagerly to the spots where masterpieces of female elegance would be incarnate for a few moments beneath the unconscious, accommodating boughs.†   (source)
  • All my old-time marvel at life returned to me at sight of this splendid incarnation of it, and Wolf Larsen's cold explanation of life and its meaning was truly ridiculous and laughable.†   (source)
  • And truly Buck was the Fiend incarnate, raging at their heels and dragging them down like deer as they raced through the trees.†   (source)
  • …to burst forth torrents of fire, timidity and zeal, who, as he pierced the Aubusson tapestries that screened the door of the room in which the music was being given with his impetuous, vigilant, desperate gaze, appeared, with a soldierly impassibility or a supernatural faith—an allegory of alarums, incarnation of alertness, commemoration of a riot—to be looking out, angel or sentinel, from the tower of dungeon or cathedral, for the approach of the enemy or for the hour of Judgment.†   (source)
  • It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation.†   (source)
  • Jim started, and his answer was full of deference; but the odious and fleshy figure, as though seen for the first time in a revealing moment, fixed itself in his memory for ever as the incarnation of everything vile and base that lurks in the world we love: in our own hearts we trust for our salvation, in the men that surround us, in the sights that fill our eyes, in the sounds that fill our ears, and in the air that fills our lungs.†   (source)
  • It may have been very proper and very natural; but it was not music, painting, poetry and joy incarnated in a beautiful woman.†   (source)
  • …all its beauty and spiritual significance, but carried as if it were an ordinary and rather heavy burden, so it is without any apparent suspicion of what she is about that the powerfully built housewife who is portrayed in the Arena beneath the label 'Caritas,' and a reproduction of whose portrait hung upon the wall of my schoolroom at Combray, incarnates that virtue, for it seems impossible, that any thought of charity can ever have found expression in her vulgar and energetic face.†   (source)
  • —avatar—incarnation.†   (source)
  • Of course there is the expression of an official in Pilate and of pity in Christ, seeing that one is the incarnation of the fleshly and the other of the spiritual life.†   (source)
  • Charley had always regarded Eustacia as Eustacia had regarded Clym when she first beheld him—as a romantic and sweet vision, scarcely incarnate.†   (source)
  • During the former the creature left me no moment alone; and, in the latter, I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable fear, to find the hot breath of _the thing_ upon my face, and its vast weight--an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off--incumbent eternally upon my _heart!†   (source)
  • If I have borne hard upon your feelings, in taking away your wife with an honest intention of giving her back to you, when the plans of that devil incarnate were answered, so have you broken into my encampment, aiding and abetting, as they have called many an honester bargain, in destroying my property.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, when he took off his hat, shaking his head backward, and showing his delicate throat as he sang, he looked like an incarnation of the spring whose spirit filled the air—a bright creature, abundant in uncertain promises.†   (source)
  • It was this: "Jarndyce, in common with most other men I have known, is the incarnation of selfishness."†   (source)
  • They are devils incarnate!†   (source)
  • That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship.†   (source)
  • Newman had never yet been confronted with such an incarnation of the art of taking one's self seriously; he felt a sort of impulse to step backward, as you do to get a view of a great facade.†   (source)
  • But still, as he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the Emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared the adoration then common in Moscow for the Emperor, who was spoken of as the "angel incarnate."†   (source)
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