Both Uses of
incarnate
in
The Magic Mountain
- 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.†
Chpt 6.6 *incarnation = embodiment
- 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.†
Chpt 6.8
Definition:
embody (made real in a material sense) -- especially in the form of a human body, but sometimes figuratively