Hunger, misery, degeneracy and the ravages of age were personified, and estheticized, in sculptures of anguished, contorted figures. |
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In mythology, the treacherousness of water is personified as alluring and irresistible women without souls who lure unwary men to a watery death. |
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For his part, he was coolness and dignity personified and rejected the chance to discomfit his opponent still further by insulting him. |
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For these folks. triumph is disquieting and unseemly, especially when it is personified by a middle-aged white male who is not ashamed of it. |
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To Kathleen and the children he was kindness personified and was always there to lend a helping hand when anyone was in trouble. |
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The chief characters at the centre of the two royal events personified this change of mood. |
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Some might find the Moorish interior faded but the manageress, Maria, is charm personified. |
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Rome and Constantinople were personified as enthroned women on coins and consular diptychs. |
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The producer, in the role of the mastermind, is avarice and villainy personified, as the role demands. |
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She was the Goddess of Wisdom, and the daughter of the Titaness who basically personified it. |
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An archetypal loner who chain-smokes, drives when drunk and rarely has a fresh pint of milk in the fridge, he is dysfunction personified. |
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More resonantly, Joan, due to her chastity, courage, chivalry, piety and intelligence, personified an exceptional female figurehead. |
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In every respect, he was kindness personified and a man of the richest and most sincere nature. |
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He was kindness personified in everything he did and he was incapable of uttering an ugly or offensive word. |
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This is a city prone to paranoia at the best of times, as personified by that quintessential New Yorker, Woody Allen. |
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Between 1984 and 1987 he personified our inchoate desire to shake free of the Muldoon years and remake ourselves in a bolder, prouder way. |
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And the young striker was coolness personified as he swivelled and drilled into the bottom corner from 15 yards. |
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One of the old stock, he personified that exemplary link associated between rural postmen and the community at large. |
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His grave monument reportedly featured the personification of Oligarchy setting fire to personified Democracy. |
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Amitabh Bachchan personified the angry young man, anti-hero whose disillusionment makes him turn to crime against an unjust society. |
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Brad was patience personified as he signed hundreds of photographs for adoring fans. |
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Jung said that the animus is more likely to be personified by multiple male figures, while the anima is frequently a single female. |
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He personified the pure, blissful soul nature they sought and sensed as the center of themselves. |
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Because prejudice is not personified I believe that it was not to be the object of Jane Austen's sharper criticism. |
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Where nature is usually personified as a woman, and man the destroyer, here the roles are reversed. |
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I mean, sure, there are plenty of books where the characters are animals, but they're personified animals. |
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Women were the vortex personified for Hitchcock, alluring sirens that drew you irresistibly to your doom. |
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For 20 years the trio has personified atypical instrumentation and superb musicianship, while maintaining a spirituality that is felt throughout. |
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Barring that brief flirtation with laxness during the second half, Hibs were efficiency personified. |
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Nature was personified as an immaterial agency striving for ever more complex forms of being. |
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His darkness and mystery were personified in the character being a Vampiric elf. |
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This house is history personified with all its grandeur, mysteries and unravelled secrets. |
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Her father, Naphtali Okello Elepu, a retired prison officer in his 70s, is sophistication and eloquence personified. |
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He personified the Protestant work ethic and the Prussian sense of duty. |
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Storied landscapes come to define groups when they become personified as homeland, motherland, land of our fathers, heimat. |
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She is against the patriarchy, especially when personified in villainous ogres like the Duke of Deception. |
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Markert says that, while Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze personified 1960s acid rock, four fifths of the songs that explicitly mention LSD are post 1980 and overwhelmingly hostile. |
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In both the biblical book of Proverbs and the apocryphal book of Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom is personified and is said to participate in God's creative activity. |
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Unlike Kyle, who is smarminess personified and constantly bangs on about how much of a perfect family man he is, US presenters will parade their wounds for applause. |
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Pennsylvania is purple personified, and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is collapsing in the Keystone State. |
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Indigenous and shamanic healers speak about the presence of and use of such tutelary spirits which are often personified and summoned while working with a patient. |
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Of all the guys who have switched uniforms this season, maybe the hardest to get used to will be Lynch, who personified the Bucs' defense with his sledgehammer style. |
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The soul, the mind, moral entities, mental functions, have always, in literature as well as in the arts and folklore, been personified in human or animal form. |
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As a state-school educated, regionally-accented, mackintosh-wearing commoner he personified the break with the old elite. |
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In allegorical scenes and mythical tales, girls have personified the hopes and struggles of nationhood. |
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Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, a shining and fervent soul, who personified the spirit of Saint Dominic. |
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The love of God that was personified in Jesus needs to be personified in the church. |
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The production of the personified Toon Disney logo is manifold and unusual. |
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In the case of a large company, the process could be personified by an ombudsman. |
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In his analysis, Europe is the devil personified while the ACP countries have been elevated to the status of saints. |
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What she personified is precisely what Clegg wants to consign to the movement's past. |
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Rhodora's life and career are diversity personified, and just like her name, she describes herself as hyphenated. |
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Calvert was a pudgy older guy who wore thick horn-rimmed glasses and personified the lovable nebbish. |
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Your language is inadequate to convey our understanding, but the principle difference is that so many of you have personified God as humanlike. |
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This has become a sort of kiss of death for civil society in Iran, as personified in the arrest of Ramin Jahanbegloo this summer. |
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This artist, blessed with a strong personality, was very well connnected in humanist antiquary circles, in whose eyes he personified the Renaissance in northern Italy from the mid 15th century. |
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Like the Chalcatzingo quatrefoils, this one has also been personified by incorporating it into the body of the zoomorph. |
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Through his scheme, Morris personified pay-to-play corruption. |
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Demonology and the Goetic magic are parts of the Qliphotic Qabalah in which the magician conjures and evokes personified dark forces in the shape of different demons. |
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The Great British Bake Off is niceness personified, to the extent that the sight of a man putting a cake in a dustbin last year was considered shocking enough to make actual front-page news. |
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His defection personified the decline in fortunes of the party in the Republic of Ireland, where it lost its sole European seat in June and has seen its representation in the Dáil reduced. |
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Sven-Goran Eriksson: dejection personified as he prepares to leave the England job having failed to take the team beyond the quarter-finals in two attempts at the game's greatest tournament. |
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The foundation is often personified as a dreamer, an incubator for new, pioneering ideas to bring researchers and decision makers together to strengthen the Canadian health system through evidence-informed decision-making. |
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Do try the feni from Valpoi! Palm Grove, Mandrem This friendly and chic Scandinavian resort on Goa's finest beach is personified by its owner, Eva Kvie, who goes out of her way to help. |
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Authority and obedience are personified in Jesus: for this reason they must be understood in direct relation to him and in a real configuration to him. |
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She personified the best of Filipino values of commitment, compassion, community service and selfless giving of herself for the well-being of others. |
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The exhibition is also a means of rectifying and acknowledging the truth personified through so many generations of suppressed women who lived their lives with integrity, consistency and courage. |
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Join us aboard the Louis Jolliet, named after the famous explorer personified by your Croisières AML guide, who will interpret the rich history of the area during this 1-hour cruise! |
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During this period, there were two people who personified the hope for freedom, Son San, the important democrat, who often visited us here in Strasbourg and who has since died, and King Sihanouk, who is now an old, ill man. |
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Lalas became the flaming-haired, goateed, amulet-wearing, guitar-strumming face of soccer in America, the Son of Uncle Sam personified. |
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Roberts and Austin are perkiness personified while Kudrow and Dillon embrace their roles as villains. |
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Unlike in Greek mythology, the gods were not personified, but were vaguely defined sacred spirits called numina. |
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The Dream of the Rood is a dream vision in which the personified cross tells the story of the crucifixion. |
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He is typically portrayed as a personified egg, though he is not explicitly described so. |
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In the 2nd century, Roman Britannia came to be personified as a goddess, armed with a trident and shield and wearing a Corinthian helmet. |
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Britannia was soon personified as a goddess, looking fairly similar to the goddess Minerva. |
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Laozi is presented as the Tao personified, giving his teaching to humanity for their salvation. |
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While Iblis refers to the particular personified Devil, Shaitan can apply to any creature, that cause mischief and oppose God. |
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According to Mandaeans mythology, one of the fallen lights, which created the known world, called Ruha Qadishta resembles a personified evil. |
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Indie-ness personified, they seemed straight-faced and serious with their combination of old-fashioned bounciness and choir-like vocals. |
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The 19-year-old pop star, petulance personified, is acting out. |
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The Greeks personified it with the Moirai, the Hebrews named it bashert. |
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Mint descends from the Latin word mentha, which is rooted in the Greek word minthe, personified in Greek mythology as Minthe, a nymph who was transformed into a mint plant. |
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Female smokers in film were also early on associated with a type of sensuous and seductive sexuality, most notably personified by German film star Marlene Dietrich. |
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The rise of the centralized court is one of the economic and political features of what is often labelled the Age of Absolutism, personified by Louis XIV of France. |
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From its beginning, the RDNA revolved around the veneration of the natural world, personified as Mother Earth, holding that religious truth could be found through nature. |
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Misbah provided strong late resistance with his defiant 58 not out off 140 balls while Azhar was obstinance personified with a stubborn 28 not out from 135 deliveries. |
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The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper. |
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The ancient Greeks personified the forces of nature as gods and goddesses. |
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