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  • He reaches out his hand as though toward an embodiment not quite real, and as he touches her, a strange soft sound, half laughter, half amazement, comes from his throat.†   (source)
  • An embodied presence.†   (source)
  • His childhood was the embodiment of concerted cultivation.†   (source)
  • Heroes embody that struggle.†   (source)
  • I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliche.†   (source)
  • Yet through all the sensations shimmered a melody of wild, haunting beauty that embodied her identity.†   (source)
  • For twenty years this field had embodied all the waste that was Vietnam, all the vulgarity and horror.†   (source)
  • Intellect and body fused, I now yearned to contribute fully, embodied with conscious energy, to live a deliberate existence dedicated to a future humanity which might in complete freedom achieve the realization of its creative impulses, the totality of its potential faculties, without injustice, coercion, hunger and exploitation.†   (source)
  • The day of the armored man-at-arms, the knight, the embodiment of chivalry, was over-hammered into history's coffin by a few thousand ragtag peasant archers carrying longbows.†   (source)
  • And suddenly the sound of his pet name, uttered by his father as he has been accustomed to hearing it all his life, means something completely new, bound up with a catastrophe he has unwittingly embodied for years.†   (source)
  • The Gospels offer us a positive model for their argument: Jesus is the embodiment of the behaviors Christian believers should embrace as well as the spiritual goal toward which they strive.†   (source)
  • Five confirmed victims, only five, and Jack the Ripper became the embodiment, forever, of pure evil.†   (source)
  • If you became the princess, you'd be the embodiment of the law.†   (source)
  • But Saeed's father's myopia combined with his personality to give him an expression that was genuinely dreamy, and this, understandably, resulted in Saeed's mother thinking he not merely looked the part, but embodied it.†   (source)
  • But they also embodied a trenchant 'social criticism.'†   (source)
  • With a bowed head she bore the whole responsibility for defending life, and it was unfair, monstrously unfair that she should have to pit logic against his for what was obvious and sacred and so beautifully embodied in her.†   (source)
  • Without question this modern American dictionary is one of the most surprisingly complex and profound documents ever to be created, for it embodies unparalleled etymological detail, reflecting not only superb lexicographic scholarship, but also the dreams and speech and imaginative talents of millions of people over thousands of years—for every person who has ever spoken or written in English has had a hand in its making.... It was a long article, and the kids were bored to death.†   (source)
  • Walsh was the latest embodiment of fancy-pants.†   (source)
  • They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer.†   (source)
  • Nor did he return to Transito Soto, because he sensed that she embodied the real danger of addiction.†   (source)
  • He thought of himself as a walking embodiment of the American dream, and in fact, in Clarkston, Chime stood out for his success.†   (source)
  • And I find it ironic that I landed in a place that embodies so many of my dreams.†   (source)
  • When they finished their rotation, all they took with them were improved versions of us, halfway between our miserable selves and the normality we saw embodied in them.†   (source)
  • If Richard personified the family's dark, fanatical side, Gottfried embodied the indolent one.†   (source)
  • You're the embodiment of logic—a Mentat.†   (source)
  • Everest was the embodiment of the physical forces of the world.†   (source)
  • Yet it is my firm conviction that at the peak of his career at Loughborough House, my father was indeed the embodiment of 'dignity'.†   (source)
  • To embody old things, old beliefs.†   (source)
  • Disney was no longer alive, and his vision of America embodied just about everything that kids of the sixties were rebelling against.†   (source)
  • Sunny, however, seemed to embody the essence of my gentle, timid species; we were powerful only in great numbers.†   (source)
  • She was simply knowledge embodied, embalmed, and personified.†   (source)
  • To this Susan had no reply it embodied emotions, a relationship, beyond her experience.†   (source)
  • Zayd is the embodiment of an ethos that, more than anything, defines merit around this campus and many elite institutions like it: constant, fearless, rigorous experimentation-both social and intellectual.†   (source)
  • He was the embodiment of Europe: his mother was Viennese, his father French, and he himself was Swiss.†   (source)
  • I have seen—I embody—the vision of the dragon: absolute, final waste.†   (source)
  • If an unaware person is told a part of the truth (it is imperative that the answer embody truth), he is satisfied that his query has been answered.†   (source)
  • He embodied a preferential option for the poor.†   (source)
  • Misallying couples snapped off the future, which was to be embodied in true offspring.†   (source)
  • "Each of the Seven embodies all of the Seven," Septon Osmynd had told her once.†   (source)
  • Here is the embodiment of the very thing that had me crawling from car to car, hiding and freezing at the slightest sound, scampering in the shadows like an animal, desperate with worry that someone like him will catch me, my sister, my mother.†   (source)
  • The other, Jefferson, disliked and distrusted the British, while seeing in France and the French Revolution the embodiment of the highest ideals of the American Revolution.†   (source)
  • He was the embodiment of all the things I wanted in a guy.†   (source)
  • To others, he was simply the bitter emblem and embodiment of their darkest days.†   (source)
  • Evelyn Collier had always embodied the spirit of the Old South and would no doubt continue to until the day she died.†   (source)
  • In those straw-hat years between the two world wars, Appleton seemed to embody just about everything that made America worth fighting and dying for.†   (source)
  • Way back long ago when we first set out on this strange voyage I talked about how John and Sylvia seemed to be running from some mysterious death force that seemed to them to be embodied in technology, and that there were many others like them.†   (source)
  • But while both brothers believed strongly in the cause and worked tirelessly toward spreading its doctrine, it was Lewis who embodied abolition-word, deed, and spirit.†   (source)
  • That day, I felt myself to be the embodiment of African nationalism, the inheritor of Africa's difficult but noble past and her uncertain future.†   (source)
  • In a phrase, Parisians behind a steering wheel embody the last civilized vestiges of lethal abandon-possibly outdone by their counterparts in Rome or Athens.†   (source)
  • He embodied the calm emotion and serenity that many players never attain at any age.†   (source)
  • Every part of the motors was an embodied answer to "Why?" and "What for?"†   (source)
  • I believe in God, God the Father, embodied in his Son Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • He embodied everything the military was looking for: leadership, intelligence, dependability, integrity, tact, selflessness, and perseverance.†   (source)
  • We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.†   (source)
  • None of us alone can embody who he is.†   (source)
  • There is no internal possession, no embodiment.†   (source)
  • In his simplicity and radiant faith in all systems of order, Gauldin represented to me the embodiment of the Institute man.†   (source)
  • I respected and liked George very much, but I became deeply fond of Angeline, and still live in hopes that I can somewhere find a human female who embodies all her virtues.†   (source)
  • As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: "This wall will fall.†   (source)
  • I could not realize then how soon I would encounter both of these things, embodied in the human passion and human flesh from which I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.†   (source)
  • Wasn't it clear that it was not he whom she loved, but the noble task she had set herself in relation to him, and that for her he was the embodiment of her own heroism?†   (source)
  • If you want to be technical, I embody the authority of the Terran Corporation.†   (source)
  • And even Church himself, wizened, peering, his face blackened and bruised by the internal blows of suffering, embodied the ageless money-lender.†   (source)
  • Her mother seemed to think the cake embodied the confirmation itself.†   (source)
  • Burnham in particular embodied this insecurity.†   (source)
  • My grandparents embodied one type: old-fashioned, quietly faithful, self-reliant, hardworking.†   (source)
  • But this room embodied a statement far more significant than the lack of waterseals on outer doors.†   (source)
  • She embodied everything he would never have, never be.†   (source)
  • For me, his powerful presence embodied all that was alluring in Christianity.†   (source)
  • It's one thing for me to say I'm a Christian, but I have to embody what it means; I have to live it.†   (source)
  • For she had embodied the Great Perhaps—she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.†   (source)
  • Most of all, though, she liked the sense of dignity and purity embodied by the Muslim women she knew.†   (source)
  • The campus seemed to perfectly embody the setting Luma had envisioned for herself when she left Jordan for America.†   (source)
  • So the task of building a new society, with the many opportunities it embodied, fell to the coloreds as well.†   (source)
  • That is the message explicitly spelled out by his sermons, and it is the message symbolically embodied in the empty tomb.†   (source)
  • In everyday life, however, the problems and situations we face don't always embody the principles of epidemics so neatly.†   (source)
  • She's not the embodied Linda; she's mostly made up, with a new identity and a new name, like the man who never was.†   (source)
  • The deuteronomic school embodied those attitudes in scripture by rewriting and reorganizing the old tales.†   (source)
  • My mother and, increasingly, the entire neighborhood embodied another: consumerist, isolated, angry, distrustful.†   (source)
  • The yards embodied everything Anna had heard about Chicago and its irresistible, even savage drive toward wealth and power.†   (source)
  • In engineering parlance, it embodied little "dead load," the static weight of immobile masses of brick and steel.†   (source)
  • The accident had been tragic and was a black mark for the fair, but everyone understood that the Ferris Wheel, with thirty-six cars carrying more than two thousand passengers, embodied the potential for a catastrophe of almost unimaginable scale.†   (source)
  • For the city's industrialists and merchant princes who learned of Gompers's speech in their Sunday morning newspapers, this was a particularly unsettling question, for it seemed to embody a demand for much more than simply work.†   (source)
  • There occurred to him, then, three words in the ancient language that seemed to embody Sloan, and without thinking about it, Eragon whispered the words under his breath.†   (source)
  • If they really embodied the dying curses of every enemy Percy had ever destroyed ...then Percy was in serious trouble.†   (source)
  • But the administrative changes that embodied the ideas, the changes that the colonists imposed, mattered more.†   (source)
  • Possibly he failed to see the dire threat to the union embodied in what he had written, but a letter he wrote to Madison strongly suggests otherwise.†   (source)
  • Rearden pointed to the red spurts of flame shooting from the black shape of a furnace, shooting safely into space four hundred feet of steel-clay-and-steam-embodied thought above them.†   (source)
  • Reading Uvin's postwar research, I felt that in many ways Deo embodied the general feeling of Burundians: far from declaring despair for the future, but also far from being able to forget.†   (source)
  • The Estrellos embodied the well-known refrain "Mtentras hay lucha hay vida, y mientras hay vida hay lucha [While there is struggle there is life, and while there is life there is struggle}."†   (source)
  • Indeed, the ranchers most likely to be in financial trouble today are the ones who live the life and embody the values supposedly at the heart of the American West.†   (source)
  • Such are, of course, precisely the values embodied in the Hayes Society's idea of a 'distinguished household', and the fact that it was confidently making such pronouncements as late as 1929 shows clearly why the demise of that society was inevitable, if not long overdue.†   (source)
  • But its image you see as it crosses the sky, the life-giving warmth and light it brings to the earth—that was embodied by Ra.†   (source)
  • Besides, they were males, and while males might appear majestic, they could not embody the beauty she did.†   (source)
  • I told them I believed in the Freedom Charter, that the charter embodied principles of democracy and human rights, and that it was not a blueprint for socialism.†   (source)
  • Brom was persistence embodied, his name a nightmare for the Forsworn and a beacon of hope for those who still had the spirit to resist the Empire.†   (source)
  • The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upward motion, they seemed to embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive.†   (source)
  • The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.†   (source)
  • He knew that they honored him not because he was their friend but because of the chance of victory he embodied for the free peoples of Alagaesia, because of his power, and because of what they hoped to gain by him.†   (source)
  • In another hundred years, I may lose interest in the beasts of the land and instead decide that the beasts of the sea embody all that is good, and then I will cover myself with scales, transform my hands into fins and my feet into a tail, and I will vanish beneath the surface of the waves and never again be seen in Alagaesia.†   (source)
  • The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upward motion, they seemed to embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive.†   (source)
  • Then their persons filled each other's awareness, as the sum and meaning of the future-but the sum included the knowledge of all that had had to be earned, before the person of another being could come to embody the value of one's existence.†   (source)
  • It was the forgotten delight of being held in rapt attention by the reins of the ingenious, the unexpected, the logical, the purposeful, the new-and of seeing it embodied in a performance of superlative artistry by a woman playing a character whose beauty of spirit matched her own physical perfection.†   (source)
  • The change was embodied in a decision which was taken to protest against apartheid legislation by peaceful, but unlawful, demonstrations against certain laws.†   (source)
  • Insofar as there are common elements in all these situations, there is continuity, which is to say, I begin to embody values.†   (source)
  • I thought this was the education I desired and that in Tradd's mother I had found a woman who embodied every quality of grace and intelligence and virtue that I would look for in a wife.†   (source)
  • He represented—embodied, in fact—almost everything that was, for his time and place—" He winced.†   (source)
  • And insofar as both of you, or both kiss and slap, also embody these same values, we three have reason to suppose these values are a part of the common core.†   (source)
  • Embodied all that was good.†   (source)
  • He embodied.†   (source)
  • She was the embodiment of that Victorian archetype, Constant Reader.†   (source)
  • She was being sent away because she was the walking, breathing embodiment of their shame.†   (source)
  • He had trusted Dumbledore, believed him the embodiment of goodness and wisdom.†   (source)
  • Susan and Bill seemed, at first, to be the embodiment of a happy, loving couple.†   (source)
  • I must now become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution.†   (source)
  • This woman was the embodiment of Capitol shallowness.†   (source)
  • But more than anything, the Blanton men were the living embodiment of the hills of Kentucky.†   (source)
  • It is the ultimate embodiment of an incision-making instrument.†   (source)
  • I believe I am the living embodiment of the power of education to change a man.†   (source)
  • She wasn't like the Greek Enyo, who was simply an embodiment of carnage.†   (source)
  • He embodies the Raider egalitarian ideal of no divisions between the men, no hierarchy.†   (source)
  • To Lorenzo, they looked like the embodiment of power.†   (source)
  • "The embodiment of chaos," I said, remembering what Nut had said.†   (source)
  • The space station itself is the embodiment of where we can go as a global society.†   (source)
  • This is a book about fast food, the values it embodies, and the world it has made.†   (source)
  • When we give up our Eldunari, we are giving up a physical embodiment of our entire being.†   (source)
  • But lo, he has shown himself to be the embodiment of our every hope!†   (source)
  • As if a living human face had become an embodiment of a principle, the image of an idea.†   (source)
  • They listened because they feared me as the moment's appointed embodiment of the system.†   (source)
  • Until we had better control of our own abilities, embodying Egyptian gods could make us go crazy or literally burn us up.†   (source)
  • They seemed the embodiment of the kind of young thug feared by nearly all urban-dwellers, and the mysterious gunman who shot them down seemed like an avenging angel.†   (source)
  • There certainly did not appear to be anything in the girl's personality that would be likely to develop into an embodiment of concentrated iniquity that McDermot tried to make her out to have been, if he ever uttered one half of the statements attributed to him in his confession.†   (source)
  • True concluded triumphantly, "God or man, he embodies all the radiant energy of the adolescence of western art."†   (source)
  • Then he read the first sentence from the introduction: Without question this modern American dictionary is one of the most surprisingly complex and profound documents ever to be created, for it embodies unparalleled etymological detail, reflecting not only superb lexicographic scholarship, but also the dreams and speech and imaginative talents of millions of people over thousands of years—for every person who has ever spoken or written in English has had a hand in its making.†   (source)
  • I had been the entitled half, the society-approved, legitimate half, the unwitting embodiment of Baba's guilt.†   (source)
  • Her gifts from Maxon were deep, dark gems, and they made her slick hair and dark eyes pop. Kriss once again managed to be the embodiment of all things royal, and it was like she wasn't even trying.†   (source)
  • This pattern of entry into adult life, Mansfield intimates, has been a recognizable part of our culture for thousands of years; of course it has always been there, but the myth embodying the archetype has continued unbroken through Western culture since the very early Greeks.†   (source)
  • Daffner, a chipper part-time substitute teacher whose son Jamie played on the Fire, was the perfect embodiment of a suburban soccer mom—which was not lost on Daffner herself.†   (source)
  • Mamaw saw Arnold Schwarzenegger as the embodiment of the American Dream: a strong, capable immigrant coming out on top.†   (source)
  • On June 6, 1892, he wrote to Charles McKim, designer of the Agriculture Building, "You had better write a letter embodying all the ideas of changes you have, because before you know it they'll have you by the umbilicus.†   (source)
  • She thought of shapes, lines, curlicues; she thought of the signs in the Gray Book, ancient and perfect, embodiments of a language too faultless for speech.†   (source)
  • I had played with the idea of trying a long romantic novel embodying the feel, if not the exact sense, of the Browning poem.†   (source)
  • Apophis was the embodiment of chaos.†   (source)
  • He thought of the old device of double take, how it comically embodies the lapsed moment where a life used to be.†   (source)
  • However, if a butler is to be of any worth to anything or anybody in life, there must surely come a time when he ceases his searching; a time when he must say to himself: 'This employer embodies all that I find noble and admirable.†   (source)
  • However, it seems reasonable to assume that the spirits know more than we about both the material and the immaterial, considering that they are the embodiment of the second and that they occupy the first when in the form of a Shade.†   (source)
  • As dusk began to creep across the land, they assembled in the clearing around the Menoa tree: he, Saphira and Firnen, Arya, thirty of the elves' oldest and most accomplished spellcasters, Glaedr and the other Eldunari that Eragon and Saphira had brought with them, and the two Caretakers: the elf women Iduna and Neya, who were the living embodiment of the pact between the dragons and the Riders.†   (source)
  • In many respects, the fast food industry embodies the best and the worst of American capitalism at the start of the twenty-first century — its constant stream of new products and innovations, its widening gulf between rich and poor.†   (source)
  • sun and moon and wind and rain and of any thug who announces himself as their spokesman, provided his words are unintelligible and his mask sufficiently frightening-he wishes, begs and crawls, and dies, leaving you, as a record of his view of existence, the distorted monstrosities of his idols, part-man, part-animal, part-spider, the embodiments of the world of non-A. His is the intellectual state of your modern teachers and his is the world to which they want to bring you.†   (source)
  • The man who loves with a pure heart, who loves his friend for the virtues he embodies, does not love his friend very much—as women understand.†   (source)
  • He was so much the embodiment of everything I deemed attractive and even envied in a human being that I couldn't help but suspect that the somber side of her Polish imagination had dreamed up these intimations of strife and doom.†   (source)
  • Quite so—especially when (and the fact is often forgotten) for millions of Americans the embodiment of evil during that time was not the Nazis, despised and feared as they were, but the legions of Japanese soldiers who swarmed the jungles of the Pacific like astigmatic and rabid little apes and whose threat to the American mainland seemed far more dangerous, not to say more repulsive, given their yellowness and their filthy habits.†   (source)
  • The diffuse mistiness in which everything was enveloped marked the stage preceding the distinctness of the final embodiment.†   (source)
  • And surely, almost cosmic in its incomprehensibility as it may appear, the embodiment of evil which Auschwitz has become remains impenetrable only so long as we shrink from trying to penetrate it, however inadequately; and Steiner himself adds immediately that the next best is "to try and understand."†   (source)
  • My lust was incredible—something prehensile, a groping snout of desire, slithering down the begrimed walls of the wretched old building, uncoiling itself across a fence, moving with haste serpentine and indecent to a point just short of her upturned rump, where in silent metamorphosis it blazingly flowered into the embodiment of myself, priapic, ravenous, yet under hair-trigger control.†   (source)
  • He was the embodiment of it.†   (source)
  • She said that you were the embodiment of what a human being should be, a man whose equal she had never met, that you were unique in your genuineness, and that if she could go back to the home she had shared with you she would crawl to it on her knees from the end of the earth.†   (source)
  • As an embodiment of conscious slovenliness, I had been a private for four consecutive years, and my classmates, demonstrating remarkable powers of discrimination, had consistently placed me near the bottom of my class.†   (source)
  • There was the incomprehensible secret embodied in a whitish toadstool hiding in the dark shade of a rotting log.†   (source)
  • Six weeks later—the delay resulted from a desire to alienate no one from the cause that then stood closest to his heart, the removal of the state capital from Vandalia to Springfield—he and Stone embodied their own opinions in a resolution that was entered in the Journal of the House and promptly forgotten.†   (source)
  • Armoured they come rolling on in long lines, more than anything else embody for us the horror of war.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, when the essential brotherhood of man is truly embodied and expressed in a world organization with all the necessary practical safeguards to make it effective, these powers would naturally be confided to that world organization.†   (source)
  • It is only in so far as they reach the will and are there embodied in habits that the virtues are really fatal to us.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, when the essential brotherhood of man is truly embodied and expressed in a world organization with all the necessary practical safeguards to make it effective, these powers would naturally be confided to that world organization.†   (source)
  • The feeling was embodied in a slogan shouted in the streets and chalked up on walls: "Bread or fresh air!"†   (source)
  • At the end of the road to Tara she had found security gone, all strength, all wisdom, all loving tenderness, all understanding gone—all those things which, embodied in Ellen, had been the bulwark of her girlhood.†   (source)
  • This miraculous energy-substance and this alone is the Imperishable; the names and forms of the deities who everywhere embody, dispense, and represent it come and go.†   (source)
  • I reread the magazine and was convinced that much of the expression embodied what the artists thought would appeal to others, what they thought would gain recruits.†   (source)
  • Thus a single man comes to represent, not a lone freak, but the multitude of all men together, to embody the reach of all aspirations in his own.... ...Those gifted with discrimination will be able to hear the message which Peter Keating addresses to us in the shape of the Cosmo-Slotnick Building, to see that the three simple, massive ground floors are the solid bulk of our working classes which support all of society; that the rows of identica†   (source)
  • Even as a person casts off worn-out clothes and puts on others that are new, so the embodied Self casts off worn-out bodies and enters into others that are new.†   (source)
  • That might be Bo's meaning, embodied in her forceful hint.†   (source)
  • Her sombre violence constrained him: she seemed the embodied instrument of fate.†   (source)
  • The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron.†   (source)
  • And also I will embody your name in my offeecial report when matter is finally adjudicated.†   (source)
  • Hence they embody a sort of natural socialism.†   (source)
  • Whatever health, comfort, and natural life exists in the house is embodied in your person.†   (source)
  • You are offeecially subordinate to me, but I shall embody your name in my verbal report.†   (source)
  • The objects that had made a shadow hitherto, embodied the brightness now.†   (source)
  • Carol thought she heard a grunt from the traveling salesman at the end of the table, and Kennicott's jerking elbow was a grunt embodied.†   (source)
  • She paused, embarrassed and yet smiling, and Archer suddenly saw before him the embodied image of the Family.†   (source)
  • The look he gave discomposed me, as though I had been responsible for his state he looked at me as if I had been the embodied evil of life.†   (source)
  • Instinctively Shefford felt that it was in them that polygamy was embodied; they were the husbands of the sealed wives.†   (source)
  • In the Black World, the Preacher and Teacher embodied once the ideals of this people—the strife for another and a juster world, the vague dream of righteousness, the mystery of knowing; but to-day the danger is that these ideals, with their simple beauty and weird inspiration, will suddenly sink to a question of cash and a lust for gold.†   (source)
  • You see, I can give you a spirit love, I have given it you this long, long time; but not embodied passion.†   (source)
  • Of course Mrs. Epanchin saw nothing either in the change of initials or in the insinuation embodied therein.†   (source)
  • They accuse us of treating them as a mere means to our pleasure; but how can so feeble and transient a folly as a man's selfish pleasure enslave a woman as the whole purpose of Nature embodied in a woman can enslave a man?†   (source)
  • Besides this suggestion embodied in itself all the secret fears and compelling moods which hitherto, although actual in herself, she was still unwilling to face.†   (source)
  • Although Saturday, by beginning an hour earlier, and by depriving her of the services of Francoise, passed more slowly than other days for my aunt, yet, the moment it was past, and a new week begun, she would look forward with impatience to its return, as something that embodied all the novelty and distraction which her frail and disordered body was still able to endure.†   (source)
  • One could call the first the Asiatic principle, the other the European, for Europe was the continent of rebellion, critique, and transforming action, whereas the continent to the east embodied inertia and inactivity.†   (source)
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