All 5 Uses of
embodiment
in
The House of Mirth
- Her small pale face seemed the mere setting of a pair of dark exaggerated eyes, of which the visionary gaze contrasted curiously with her self-assertive tone and gestures; so that, as one of her friends observed, she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room.†
Chpt 1.2
- From where she stood she could see them embodied in the form of Mr. Gryce, who, in a light overcoat and muffler, sat somewhat nervously on the edge of his chair, while Carry Fisher, with all the energy of eye and gesture with which nature and art had combined to endow her, pressed on him the duty of taking part in the task of municipal reform.†
Chpt 1.4
- Lily reviewed them with a scornful impatience: Carry Fisher, with her shoulders, her eyes, her divorces, her general air of embodying a "spicy paragraph"; young Silverton, who had meant to live on proof-reading and write an epic, and who now lived on his friends and had become critical of truffles; Alice Wetherall, an animated visiting-list, whose most fervid convictions turned on the wording of invitations and the engraving of dinner-cards; Wetherall, with his perpetual nervous nod of…†
Chpt 1.5
- She had shown her artistic intelligence in selecting a type so like her own that she could embody the person represented without ceasing to be herself.†
Chpt 1.12
- But it is one thing to live comfortably with the abstract conception of poverty, another to be brought in contact with its human embodiments.†
Chpt 1.14 *
Definition:
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(embodiment) a physical representation of a concept