What is "epitomize"

Usage examples of "epitomize".

Joseph Campbell, the author of the present book, epitomizes the quality of communication and intellectuality required for The Forum.

He epitomized the petty-minded apparatchik, blindly following the Party line, the kind who had inflicted almost as much damage on President Armstrong as the urban predators themselves.

Entreri epitomized the tenets of drow society, the selfish heartlessness that had driven Drizzt from the bowels of the world in outrage.

Wulfgar, who epitomized all that had been respected and treasured among the barbarian people.

This is epitomized by our beliefs in the pantheon, but what of the mortal races, the rational beings-the humans and the races of elvenkind and dwarvenkind, the gnomes and the halflings, the goblinoids and giantkin?

With his slender build, graceful manner, foppish, elegant attire, and intricate coiffure, the Mizzrym mage epitomized what a sophisticated noble and wizard should be.

But when the undulating grace of the long neck and the longer tail was added, this large reptile epitomized the beauty of the animal kingdom as it then existed.

But it was the combination of these two doors, each complementing the other, that epitomized the town’s youthful innocence.

A new realization of the wonder of this universe was epitomized then in the concept of a cosmic order, which immediately became the celestial model for the good society on earth: the king enthroned, crowned as the moon or sun, the queen as the goddess-planet Venus, and the high dignitaries of the court in the roles of the various celestial lights.

If Cartesian dualism is thesis, and behaviourism antithesis, the programme of the holistic modelers epitomized by Boden's slogan is a sort of unholy Hegelian synthesis.

It had been one of those warm, sunny days that felt like summer—and when the evening came, the night air brought a contrasting coolness that epitomized the very best of autumn.

The frail body epitomized all that he had pledged to destroy in this world.

And all the forces of Nature were epitomized for him now in the distant blue cone which he knew so well, but had yet to feel beneath his feet.

The effect, in its own way, was like that of a beautiful Japanese garden, where nature and art have been brought together in a common statement harmonizing and epitomizing both.

There was about the man himself a genuinely comforting quality, epitomizing all that was sure and certain and humane about the British way of life.