Epitomized

The cabin epitomized the new world in which they must thenceforth live and move. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Theirs was a dilemma epitomized in arcane profundities: Can it be wrong to do the right thing or, conversely, right to do the wrong thing? ❋ Bradamant (2006)

But at the time -- and it's -- it kind of epitomized what many people believed was going on in the '60s. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think that kind of epitomized for people the sense of anger and disdain that McCain was displaying. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The whole game was kind of epitomized by that 5-on-3 Buffalo power play where we blocked four or five shots to help Marc with the game. ❋ Unknown (2002)

"He kind of epitomized street basketball, the dunks and the spectacular plays," Korcek said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cleaver, the Leave It to Beaver mom, epitomized the 1950s stay-at-home mom, quietly serving her husband and children, with hobbies of needlepoint and arranging tea roses. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Many white observers commented that slaves danced with bent knees and elbows, which according to the historian Peter Wood, was probably an expression of the West African belief that “straightened knees, hips, and elbows”—which characterized European styles of dance—epitomized death and rigidity, “while flexed joints embodied energy and life.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Bainimarama's war on the 99% is perhaps best epitomized by his escalating attacks on Fiji's unions and persecution of the country's union leaders, through draconian decrees, denying permits for meetings, detentions and beatings. ❋ Anna Lenzer (2011)

In "The Social Animal," Mr. Brooks avoids the challenge of imitating the master by reviving an older form: the 18th-century didactic narrative, epitomized by Rousseau's "Emile." ❋ Christopher F. Chabris (2011)

Fronted by guitarist Mary Timony , Helium reveled in fantastical prog-rock possibilities while Sleater-Kinney epitomized Riot Grrl's punk spirit with fierce rock. ❋ Andy Beta (2011)

We also have the excellent precedent in the collaboration between the public and private sectors that Fannie Mae once epitomized. ❋ Frank A. Weil (2011)

Finally, the fate of women under the new law illustrates the story of hope and disappointments that characterized so much of the health reform debate: high expectations fed by new regulations prohibiting gender rating and discrimination based on health status quickly turned into disillusionment epitomized in the struggle over access to reproductive care. ❋ Anja Rudiger (2010)

Even as firebrand preachers like Tim LaHaye and Jerry Falwell led their flock in public displays of patriotism (epitomized by the Washington for Jesus rally of April, 1980) and a rhetoric of condemnation (targeting Muslims abroad, gays and feminists at home, and a brainy Democratic president they thought un-Christian), evangelical powerbrokers helped party brass forge a comprehensive platform of supply-side economics and family values — pillars of creative conservatism. ❋ Darren Dochuk (2011)

"Few people have epitomized all the positives of team sports more than Jerry Sloan," NBA Commissioner David Stern said in a statement. ❋ AP (2011)