Characterized by elegant and refined yet playful subject matters, Boucher's style became the epitome of the court of Louis XV.

Yet, in the children of Buddenbrook Jr., the materially comfortable style of life provided by the dedication to solid, middle-class values elicits decadence: The fickle daughter, Toni, lacks and seeks no purpose in life ; son Christian is honestly decadent, and lives the life of a ne ’ er-do-well ; and the businessman son, Thomas, who assumes command of the Buddenbrook family fortune, occasionally falters from middle-class solidity by being interested in art and philosophy, the impractical life of the mind, which, to the bourgeoisie, is the epitome of social, moral, and material decadence.

In many ways Chávez was the epitome of the " Mexican " style of boxing.

Commonly known just as Odajō, and also known for his unusual hairstyle and eclectic style of dressing, he is the epitome of Cool Japan.

Like Manetho, it begins with the gods, and like Manetho, appears to be an epitome very similar in spirit and style to Manetho.

It is considered by many to be the very epitome of the Tiki tavern style.

The epitome of his style is Madonna of the Rose Bower ( c. 1450, in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum ), showing the Virgin and Child reposing in a blooming rose arbor and attended by Lochner's characteristic child Angels.

Targeted at the tech-savvy, young urban male, this ultra-modern assortment is truly an epitome of style and technology.

The new settings were magnificent in an Opera Baroque style, and the various Trocaderos of the English-speaking world have derived their names from this original, the epitome of grand Edwardian catering.

It offered magnificent in an Opera Baroque style, and the various Trocaderos of the English-speaking world have derived their names from this original, the epitome of grand Edwardian catering.

An epitome of style and impeccable taste in both his attire and manners, James Galanos was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1982.

Some spurious letters bear the name of Severus ; also in a MS. at Madrid is a work falsely professing to be an epitome of the Chronicle of Severus, and going down to 511.

An abridgment differs from an epitome in that an abridgment is made of selected quotations of a larger work ; no new writing is composed, as opposed to the epitome, which is an original summation of a work, at least in part.

The brief and plainly expressed accounts of myth in the Bibliotheca have led some commentators to suggest that even its complete sections are an epitome of a lost work.

Although the main theme of Trogus was the rise and history of the Macedonian monarchy, Justin yet permitted himself considerable freedom of digression, and thus produced an idiosyncratic anthology instead of a mundane summary ( or ' epitome ') of the work.

In this documentary, Troller called Crumb's work " the epitome of contemporary white North America's popular art ".

It forms a bridge between a condensed epitome of classical learning at the close of Late Antiquity and the inheritance received, in large part through Isidore's work, by the early Middle Ages.

It is disputed, however, whether the words in the Suda (" of which this book is an epitome ") mean that Sudas compiler himself epitomized the work of Hesychius, or whether they are part of the title of an already epitomized Hesychius used in the compilation of the Suda.

The work itself is lost, but an epitome by Diogenianus ( 2nd century ) formed the basis of the lexicon of Hesychius.

Justin wrote an epitome of Trogus ' lost work, and in the manuscripts of Justin's work a series of prologi or summaries of the books by an unknown hand has been preserved.

Of his great work, we possess only the epitome by Justin, the prologi or summaries of the 44 books, and fragments quoted in Vopiscus, Jerome, Augustine and other writers.

# The Events after Alexander, apparently an epitome of a work by Arrian

Later writers provide no information about him, but they do note that the work was later reduced to an epitome by a certain Hermolaus.

The first two books, and parts of the third, eleventh and fifteenth, are extant only in epitome, but otherwise the work seems to be entire.

The work is incomplete, but the gaps can be to a certain extent ' filled up ', with the aid of an epitome made in the 4th or 5th century for the use of schools.

It is one of three major Latin dictionaries preserved from antiquity, along with that of Festus, which was an epitome of Verrius Flaccus ' work De verborum significatu, and the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville.

According to Mommsen, Solinus also used a chronicle ( possibly by Cornelius Bocchus ) and a Chorographia pliniana, an epitome of Pliny's work with additions made about the time of Hadrian.

* Claudius Didymus, a Greek grammarian, who wrote about the mistakes of Thucydides relating to analogy, a separate work about analogy among the Romans, and an epitome of the works of Heracleon.

* Katherine Browning: An epitome of the " science of the emotions ", a summary of the work of Pandit Bhagavan Das.

Although two of her poems survive in epitome, most of her work is preserved in papyrus fragments.

It was this epitome, this template of the ideal form, that a craftsman or later an artist would try to reconstruct in his attempt to achieve perfection in his work, that was to manifest itself in ekphrasis at a later stage.

The Chronicles are an epitome of the sacred history from the days of Adam down to the return from Babylonian exile, a period of about 3, 500 years.

Prior to this, many had regarded Táhirih as the epitome of purity and the spiritual return of Fatima Zahra, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad.

Prior to this, many had regarded Táhirih as the epitome of purity and the spiritual return of Fatima Zahra, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad.

This period produced some of India's finest art, considered the epitome of classical development, and the development of the main spiritual and philosophical systems which continued to be in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

Zeami is known as the foremost writer of Noh and the artist who brought it to its classical epitome.

The record of his diplomatic mission survives in a fragment among the forty-six in the epitome by the patriarch Photius, who considered Olympiodorus a " pagan ", doubtless for his classical education:

He in a way signifies the epitome of classical Hindi poetry.

The term Ramean tree became standard in logic books, applying to the classical Porphyrian tree, or any binary tree, without clear distinction between the underlying structure and the way of displaying it ; now scholars use the clearer term Ramist epitome to signify the structure.

His resignation accomplished this because Nelson Rockefeller, the epitome of the eastern economic elite, assumed the vice presidency after Nixon's resignation.

Already during his own lifetime, but even more after his death, he had become for many English people the very epitome of a courtier: learned and politic, but at the same time generous, brave, and impulsive.

Playing for one of the worst teams in league history, he was the epitome of everything wrong with the squad, missing easy sitters and empty nets game after game.

According to Arngrímur Jónsson's epitome of Skjöldunga saga, Hrólf Kraki's saga and the Chronicon Lethrense, he was killed shortly after.