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Перевод: personification

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персонификация ; олицетворение; воплощение; очеловечение
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Тезаурус:

1. This jowl-shaking, glowering personification of Britishness was her press secretary, Bernard Ingham - now Sir Bernard.
2. Although Pond praised him as a "middle-class Englishman the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics", there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend, Henry Ward Beecher, at Beecher's Brooklyn church.
3. I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career - both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate - my father not only manifests, but comes close to being the personification itself, of what the Hayes Society terms "dignity in keeping with his position".
4. Mr Kinnock has learnt that it is more effective to mock the Prime Minister as an anachronism in a brave new world than snarl the word "Thatcherism" and present her as the personification of all evil.
5. Environmental idealism is also increasingly bound up with semi-mystical New Age concepts such as "Deep Ecology" and the personification of the planet itself as "Gaia".
6. There are two good examples of this in the British Museum's Roman sculpture collections: the "Spinario", a boy removing a thorn from his foot, and "Clytie", long taken to be a portrait of the emperor Claudius' mother, the younger Antonia, but perhaps better identified as a personification of one of the nations defeated by Augustus.
7. In appearance tall, bald and gangling, eyes alight with pleasure, tufts of hair in disarray, he was the personification of a slightly mad professor.
8. Gallacher was the personification of scandal.
9. Stencil is the personification of a procrustean function rather than a character in any realistic sense, partly a parody of such questing scholars as Robert Graves, partly an imitation of the obsessed protagonist in Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight .
10. Their twisted cunning movements were vividly contrasted with those she created for Elihu, the personification of Youth and Truth.
11. The seizure of Oslo was delayed by only a few hours, just long enough for the king, his ministers and most of parliament - the collective personification of constitutional legitimacy - to evade capture.
12. The imperial eagle and the personification of Victory are obvious examples of symbols of imperial power, but they turn up with surprising frequency upon ornamental furniture, lamps and, most notably, 15 funerary monuments.
13. Talk about some of the effects of sound patterning, eg rhyme, alliteration , and figures of speech, eg similes, metaphors, personification , in imaginative uses of English.