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22 examples of Personifies in a sentence

The majestic figure here in the middle is dressed in Siena's colors and he personifies the republic itself.
This monologue personifies Hamlet’s existential dilemma: being torn between thought and action, unable to choose between life and death.
This is a great movie that personifies the struggle of "principle vs. pragmistism".
That story also personifies the struggle of how older people often resist change, and more specifically, cultural change.
Romance, however, is cut short, when it emerges that Tom is, in his own words, "no good at what I'm being a success at", and Jane realises he personifies everything she hates about where TV news is going.
The hilarious climax involves the two leads morphing into a winged robot with a gigantic phallus for a head, who personifies "destruction", which has been the path of both characters thus far, their individual minds and later literal heads functioning as something like testicles.
He just personifies the 'writer type' to a tee - both smart and clumsy (the scene at the window...) and strong yet so very vulnerable.
Jodi Thelen personifies "that girl" to the hilt - it is so hard not to be charmed by her.
While there is a definite prurient appeal in watching Ricci fall out of her skimpy outfits, her performance is risky and mature--not a trace of Wednesday Addams to be found, and she easily holds her own with Jackson, who personifies "the blues" in his portrait of a flawed, God-fearing man.
Welles especially, as the mysterious Harry Lime, personifies evil even more effectively (if that's possible) than characters such as Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs) or Andy Robinson (Dirty Harry).
One day while in exile, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful runaway princess names Kaurwaki (played to the best of her ability by Kareena Kapoor, considering that this role was supposed to be for Aishwarya Rai who personifies the meaning of beauty more than Kapoor ever could) and after a few song and dance numbers, they marry each other in the deserted forests.
William personifies the unscrupulous aristocrat with the charm and polish who's already in the penthouse.
When one says that an actor is good in every film they are in, no film personifies this more than Bretaigne Windust's 1948 film "June Bride" in which Bette Davis and Robert Montgomery star as former lovers and boss/subordinate.
And Vivek personifies this principle to perfection.
Grandpa is family patriarch Jason Crockett, played by RAY MILLAND, who turns in an outstanding, tour de force performance as the wheelchair-bound, cantankerous millionaire industrialist who personifies the ugly rich at its worst.
Betty is a complicated, intelligent, real human being with all the frailties that includes...but he is a generous showman who personifies rock music.
Russia’s somewhat archaic political culture overly personifies power.
For Yeltsin, Kohl is his trusted interlocutor in the West; for Kohl, Yeltsin personifies the mixture of old and new which is Russia today.
In this, he personifies the paradox that is Christianity: unbreakable and lasting principles joined by understanding and tolerance.
And we might also dream that next December, the Nobel committee will at long last recognize Havel for an award whose meaning he truly personifies.
The French entertainer Dieudonné M’bala M’bala – whose signature “quenelle” gesture, which resembles an inverted Nazi salute, has stirred controversy throughout Europe – personifies this overlapping discourse.
A caricature of a despot, he personifies the type of odious adversary whom all democrats want to see defeated.