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a physical representation of a concept- But the administrative changes that embodied the ideas, the changes that the colonists imposed, mattered more.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- I had played with the idea of trying a long romantic novel embodying the feel, if not the exact sense, of the Browning poem.Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- And I find it ironic that I landed in a place that embodies so many of my dreams.Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
- None of us alone can embody who he is.Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
- To embody old things, old beliefs.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- Armoured they come rolling on in long lines, more than anything else embody for us the horror of war.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Law embodies the will of the people.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- Her sombre violence constrained him: she seemed the embodied instrument of fate.Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
- She paused, embarrassed and yet smiling, and Archer suddenly saw before him the embodied image of the Family.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- I have seen—I embody—the vision of the dragon: absolute, final waste.John Gardner -- Grendel
- Heroes embody that struggle.Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
- Sunny, however, seemed to embody the essence of my gentle, timid species; we were powerful only in great numbers.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- If you want to be technical, I embody the authority of the Terran Corporation.Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
- We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.George Orwell -- 1984
- To others, he was simply the bitter emblem and embodiment of their darkest days.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- Everest was the embodiment of the physical forces of the world.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- He thought of the old device of double take, how it comically embodies the lapsed moment where a life used to be.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- And also I will embody your name in my offeecial report when matter is finally adjudicated.Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
- But he was the embodiment of the raw, crude violence of the West.Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon