Older people's heroines personified interdependence, and offered exemplars that encapsulated their own values, aspirations and expectations for later life.
In one sense, he is accused of a night-time burglary ; he thus personifies the apocalyptic image, ' ' coming like a thief in the night.
Perhaps most important, he personified the passion for archaeology as a way of knowing, not just a recovery technique.
They become who they are by becoming personified in the eyes of those around them.
She personified the sun's heat and was also a protector of the dead.
Instead, they relied on age-old strategies either by prescribing safety rules and protocols or by personifying specific risks through stories or scenarios.
The semantic implications of the term are made explicit by personifying narratives, some of which are apparently quite routinized.
After all, personified abstractions are "never quite human"; they often represent subordinate quantities contained in the human mind.