(v. t.) To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.
(v. t.) To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
Example Sentences:
(1) And Pippi Longstocking, her most famous character, comes really close to being the personified proof of that… So where did Pippi come from?
(2) This white child had as his alter-ego, really as part of his self-representation, a black half of the self, personified as a black boy whom he fantasized to be his twin.
(3) What the papers say The Economist (for Obama) "A man who once personified hope and centrism set a new low by unleashing attacks on Mitt Romney even before the first Republican primary.
(4) He is sexism, male domination, and oppression against women personified.
(5) The Conservative reaction, personified by David Cameron , is to promote social mobility and meritocracy.
(6) Are they going to move in the direction of logic and rationality, or are they going to continue to pursue this anti-scientific fringe movement within their party that is personified by people liked Ted Cruz ?
(7) Robert Holcomb perhaps personified what Terry describes today as "a different breed of black soldier entering the battlefield" in the latter half of the 1960s.
(8) Yet the campaign fed doubts among party managers about Sir Alec's ability to personify enterprise, yout hfulness, and relevance to contemporary circumstances.
(9) They both ran in the 2011 primaries won by Hollande, and personified two styles, two political orientations within the Socialist party.
(10) When asked why, he said: “It was about finding that balance that would bring bipartisan support to the bill.” Reaching across the aisle in search of compromise and consensus is the professed goal of almost every candidate for public office in the US, particularly in recent times, when presidents have come to personify not unity but division.
(11) Brody is, after all, personifying a struggle between good and evil: the good bit is the all-American father-hero-soldier; the bad is the convert to Islam and terrorism (what a myth-busting connection, thanks Homeland!)
(12) He decorates games, rarely dominates them, and personified the lack of ruthlessness on display.
(13) Whether or not we, or you, agree, there will be somebody who truly believes that such and such a new act are magnificence magnified and brilliance personified.
(14) I’m not running against him or against anyone else.” How long Rubio can maintain the sunny demeanor that has personified his candidacy thus far is unclear.
(15) It can be shown that the evolution of the Health Service has been shaped by three differing types of underlying logic: the professional (because the technical side is chiefly represented by the professionals who personify the scientific and technical aspects of health problems), the social and the economic.
(16) There is simply an expectation of excellence that he personifies that made us all remember why we wanted to work at the Washington Post and it’s sort of euphoric.” Later in 2013 the Graham family sold the business to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, whose internet background brought fresh ideas and deep pockets.
(17) If, however, you were multinational company, Hartnett would be indulgence personified.
(18) The Telegraph's religion editor and Church of England priest George Pitcher has described him as personifying "the new amorality of avaricious, red-top, vulgar New Britain".
(19) Ryan Bertrand personified this when taking an age to deliver a free-kick and then banging it high into the Stretford End.
(20) He personifies the new dispensation, in which men and women glide between corporations and politics, and appear to act as agents for big business within government.
Reify
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The need for complex psychotherapy is reified by using the combination of group psychotherapy with methods of individual and behavioral therapy as an example.
(2) Technical virtuosity reifies the mechanical model and widens the gap between what patients seek and doctors provide.
(3) Notoriously, the networks of homosexuality seemed to transcend many more formal social and political boundaries, reifying crossovers not only between national and ethnic cultures, but between high society and the demi-mondes of bohemian artists, and so forth.
(4) No menopausal disturbances are however recorded until the social convulsions of the French Revolution, and the regimes which followed, seem to have crystalized the various complaints of the climacteric into a disease-expression, which reified the social stress to which women were subject.
(5) But all they did was reify racial problems.” Prater, the business owner, father and husband, says he is taken aback when he sees police officers in his majority white suburb of Grosse Pointe Park smiling with residents and throwing a football with them in their local park.
(6) There is the danger that 'body image disturbances' become reified based upon group differences on a particular operational measure.
(7) Variability among physicians in diagnosing reactive hypoglycemia illustrates some fundamental problems of reifying the concept of disease.
(8) Reified in many popular tests, it has withstood onslaughts from factor analysis, from concerned social scientists, from judicial fiat, and from scientific knowledge about mental abilities, brain functions, and neuropathology.
(9) While the Cuban program appears to be every bit as individualistic as the North American Program, theirs may not be comparable to the US program because Cubans are less likely than Americans to reify the state.
(10) White males exist with the most social power and therefore by excluding them as subjects in their advertising campaigns, Peta continually reifies our social hierarchy of bodies.
(11) Clearly this functions dialectically to expose the contradictions inherent in the ideological construction of globalised sporting competitions as capable of uniting divided nations at the precise moment when those nations are divisively expressing their national identities in the most reified manner.
(12) Not only were ideas of community reified, but also entire new communities were created by people who had not consciously thought of themselves as particularly different from others around them.
(13) It suggests that the concept role was itself a reified concept and that its "metaphorical extension" to cover chiropractors constitutes a double jeopardy for health scientists.
(14) "It seems that social media works not towards change – of society, notions of individuality and connectedness, and so on – but rather as a conservative force that tends to strengthen the conventional social relations and to reify society as Italians enjoy and recognise it.
(15) Through increasing specialization, the once unified biological perspective of man was severely fragmented, and with increasing emphasis on the science of medicine, the disease process was objectified and reified.
(16) Our analysis suggests this style of drug advertising produces, as a social side-effect, a reified and medicalized account of psychiatric illness (depression).
(17) The fundamental challenge, said Noland, is the fundamental challenge is the north's policy of developing nuclear weapons and the economy in parallel; "a contradiction reified as doctrine".
(18) Reproduction has been proposed as a cause of debilitation and psychological disturbance for centuries, recently reified through the three reproductive syndromes, the premenstrual syndrome, postnatal depression and the menopausal syndrome.
(19) The superficial similarity of both concepts, albeit substituting a "tangible" substance by an ideational one, helps to explain why it has been so difficult to avoid the temptation to reify psychoanalytic concepts.
(20) It argues that while the Cuban program appears to be every bit as individualistic as the North American program, theirs may not be comparable to ours because Cubans are less likely than Americans to reify the state.