He begins by personifying the mourning doves in nearby crevices.

Dramatically, she is less successful in personifying an ideal of childlike innocence that acquires a self-sacrificing dimension.

"He has done a good job at establishing himself as personifying municipal bonds," said Jay Schulberg, vice chairman and creative director of Bozell Worldwide.

But there is no more simplistic good and evil and no more personifying of buildings, as if that were the only way to incite the interests of young readers.

For the ceremony, Gérard Van Opstal created three sculptures personifying France, Spain and Hymen, to be placed in niches executed by Michel Anguier.

George Soros, one of the world's most successful speculators and richest men, has come as close as anyone to personifying the spread of global capitalism and the power of international financial markets.

If average people find it easiest to deal with complex problems by personifying them and seeing only good and evil, well, "We politicians do that to one another with 'so and so's been bought.' "

He was nicknamed "the actor of the 1000 faces" or "the cinema demon" for his ability to act any role personifying the different types of personalities, he acted many roles from comedy to evil.

The statue is one of four figures on the intermediate platform of the fountain bowl personifying the main rivers of Austria-Hungary: the Danube, the Inn, the Elbe, and the Moldau.

In their view, Mr. Sharon has accidentally cast Mr. Arafat in his preferred role, as a victim - "the ultimate underdog," as one senior official put it, personifying "the Palestinian plight."

In personifying such cultural identities, the person is a passive consumer, not the active creator, of his or her life; the promised life of individualistic creativity is incompatible with the collectivist, commercial norms of bourgeois culture.

The climax of the aria occurs with the word "grido" ("outcry" or "crying out") and clearly Turandot is reliving and personifying the last moments of her ancestor, its outrage and its long awaited vengeance.

In the course of the action, All the characters are also allegorical, each personifying an abstract idea such as Fellowship, (material) Goods, and Knowledge and the conflict between good and evil is dramatized by the interactions between characters.

Streamlined works like these might be regarded as set-ups for a deliberately draggy sculpture, and the figure personifying "The Weight of Time," by Natasha Cohen of Armonk, N.Y., might be an exhausted shaman Photography is a component not just top winners' work.

Thus, the consummately theatrical Ms. Price, "diva di tutte le dive" in the words of a Time magazine concert review, a legend personifying operatic royalty in full command of her art, became the harbinger of a many-splendored dream week that links opera and theater in a heady mix.

Now, and by the few words at the door, he had become the thing personified.

But that left him with the problem of himself, for what was he if not Change personified?

I have seen members of my people who were beauty personified.

You may as well try to personify the English language.

He personified the very meaning of a beautiful person inside and out.

In the past the word could be applied to any person or thing personified, not just a woman.

He personified not an ideology or a party but an age in which Americans felt good about themselves.

If all this personifies the perfect man, then so be it.

More than ever, he will be seen to personify the new Spain.

Two dancers personified the sun at different times of the year.

"I think what we've tried to do is to personify it."

"We are living in the state which is personified by the president.

Can I really mean to personify the community in this vivid way?

"One of the best ways is choosing people who personify that."

I also feel that we should not personify our resolutions.

There is a process of two individuals joining together to form a new life, often personified by children.

The story of my life is the Chicano experience personified.

In short, the president has come to personify democracy, according to Nelson.

The executive is personified in the president, elected for a 5-year term.

"Based on that speech, he now personifies this party's future."

She personified the sun's heat and was also a protector of the dead.

This lieutenant, for example, seemed to be the joy of life personified.

I can understand that in the context of trying to personify terrorism.

For some reason, popular waves of computer technology tend to be personified.

The man wearing the "C" seems to personify the group.