Composed between 1872 and 1879, the cycle embodies its composer's personal belief in the greatness of the Czech nation while presenting selected episodes and ideas from Czech history.

* Cult image, a religion-neutral term for a man-made object that is venerated for the deity, spirit or demon that it embodies or represents

True marriage, in Campbell's opinion, embodies a spiritual identity and invokes the image of an incarnate God.

This, he states, is a mythological image that embodies the sacrifice of the visible for a transcendent good.

Michelangelo, more even than Raphael or Leonardo, embodies a standard of artistic genius which reveals a radically changed image of human beings and their potential ..."

Essentially an eight-minute rant about behaviors that Rock sees within the black community ; he describes " niggas " as a cohort whose behavior — which embodies many negative African-American stereotypes — is usually detrimental to the image of other black people.

"</ li >< li > from thesis 37: " the world of the commodity dominating all that is lived "</ li >< li > from thesis 60: " The celebrity, the spectacular representation of a living human being, embodies this banality by embodying the image of a possible role.

Lord Chaos is an abstract being who embodies the metaphysical concept of Chaos ; as such it has no physical form, although on occasion it has manifested as an image of a disembodied bald inhumanly warped and distorted male head.

" As an image which embodies this spirit, an animated film character from the Moomins series is its mascot.

Theogony is a part of Greek mythology which embodies the desire to articulate reality as a whole ; this universalizing impulse was fundamental for the first later projects of speculative theorizing.

It was the beginning of the religion which later the Greeks considered Hellenic, and embodies a paradox.

Although Petruchio is not characterised as a violent man, he still embodies the subjugation and objectification of women during the 16th century as manifested in many stories of this nature ; " The object of the tale was simply to put the shrew to work, to restore her ( frequently through some gruesome form of punishment ) to her proper productive place within the household economy.

Film critic Nick Schager wrote, " Never was Mike Hammer's name more fitting than in Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich's blisteringly nihilistic noir in which star Ralph Meeker embodies Mickey Spillane's legendary P. I.

Simon Hornblower asserts that Thebes ' great legacy to fourth century and Hellenistic Greece was federalism, " a kind of alternative to imperialism, a way of achieving unity without force ", which " embodies a representative principle ".

The state of mind produced by that shock is reflected in his novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis ( The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis ) ( 1798 ), which was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as a more politicized version of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, " for the hero of Foscolo embodies the mental sufferings and suicide of an undeceived Italian patriot just as the hero of Goethe places before us the too delicate sensitiveness embittering and at last cutting short the life of a private German scholar.

He summarizes, " the word barbarian embodies a complex European cultural construct, a generic pejorative term for a ' powerful foreigner with uncouth, uncivilized, nonurban culture who was militarily skilled and somewhat heroic, but inclines to violence and cruelty ' – yet not a ' savage ' or a ' wild man '.

As it was written in a program note that accompanied the movie's premier " It is a modern poem presented with medieval material that has been very freely handled ... The script in particular — embodies a mid-twentieth century existentialist angst .... Still, to be fair to Bergman, one must allow him his artistic license, and the script's modernisms may be justified as giving the movie's medieval theme a compelling and urgent contemporary relevance ... Yet the film succeeds to a large degree because it is set in the Middle Ages, a time that can seem both very remote and very immediate to us living in the modern world .... Ultimately The Seventh Seal should be judged as a historical film by how well it combines the medieval and the modern.

Richard actually embodies the dramatic character of " Vice " from Medieval mystery plays – with which Shakespeare was very familiar from his time – with his " impish-to-fiendish humour ".

Raised in the Anglican denomination of Christianity, Spare had come to denounce this monotheistic faith when he was seventeen, telling a reporter that " I am devising a religion of my own which embodies my conception of what we are we were, are, and shall be in the future.

Snowden's death embodies Yossarian's desire to evade death ; by seeing Snowden's entrails spilling over the plane, he feels that " Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret.

The name " Lambeth " embodies " hithe ", a landing on the river: archbishops came and went by water, as did John Wycliff, who was tried here for heresy.

There will be a person selected every game from community nominees to sit in that seat, formerly occupied by O ' Neil behind home plate in what was Section 101, Row C, Seat 1, until 2008 who embodies the spirit of Buck O ' Neil.

Moores was a great believer in the creation of opportunity for all, which embodies the ethos of LJMU in providing educational routes for people of all ages and from all backgrounds.

Hofstadter — himself very much a big-city person — noted the agrarian ethos was " a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins, however, to call it a myth does not imply falsity, because it effectively embodies the rural values of the American people, profoundly influencing their perception of the correct values, hence their political behavior.

The award was created in tribute to the first Golden Wagon honoree, Tony Randall, and is given to a member of the entertainment industry who embodies the same love of Fire Island, independent spirit, and community service that Randall shared.

It was designed by Detective Alfred Karratti and embodies Hawaiian tradition and culture in its motifs.

* The Zerg ( 1998 ) of the Starcraft universe demonstrate such concepts when in groups and enhanced by the psychic control of taskmaster breeds ; the Zerg's original leader, the Overmind, was generally thought of not as an individual with a central intelligence to control others but instead as a being which embodies the hive mind of Zerg that are mentally linked.

The historian Ronald Hutton would later relate that it was " one of the first three books to be published on the subject " of Wicca, and that the " remarkable feature of the book is that it remains, until this date, the only one produced by a prominent modern witch that embodies actual original research into the records of the trials of people accused of the crime of witchcraft during the early modern period.

According to the orthodox viewpoint of Confucian society, love was not supposed to be a basis for marriage, as most marriages were arranged by the parents of the couples, but the happy ending of The Romance of the Western Chamber embodies the aspirations of people for more meaningful and happier lives.

Further, if the Gospel of Mark embodies the recollections of Peter, it would be difficult to find a more reliable authority for topographical details connected with the sea on which his fisher life was spent.

R. D. Miller, discussing " heritage " in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, concluded that it was in this idea that Goethe had expressed his mature classical ideal of humanity according to which the individual contains within himself and embodies the general, such that a dedication to the life of others would not necessarily, from that point of view, imply renunciation of his own being.

A flyer was distributed with the following text: ' Second-Wave ‘ Feminists ’, A hot load from my monstrous tranny-cock embodies womanhood more than the pieces of menstral ( sic ) art your transphobic cunts could ever hope to create.

As per current predominant thought, Jagannath, embodies the metamorphosis of tribal god into a pre-eminent deity of the classical Hindu pantheon.

Homer embodies several American working class stereotypes: he is crude, overweight, incompetent, clumsy, lazy, a heavy drinker, and ignorant ; however, he is essentially a decent man and fiercely devoted to his family.

Scrooge has become a different man overnight and now treats his fellow men with kindness, generosity and compassion, gaining a reputation as a man who embodies the spirit of Christmas.

For Joinville, Louis IX embodies the ideal prud ' homme-pious, courageous, kind, intelligent and wise, a man who defends the Christian faith by his courage.

Its unique architectural form embodies the harmony of man nature, structure and natural environment.

He embodies the aspirations of every left-wing black group that wants to tear down this country and take power away from the " oppressive " white man.

Herman, from all outward appearances, embodies the ultimate young man on the fast track -- ambitious, clever and sensible -- but viewers are shown that, as in everyone, a struggle of contrasting personality traits are constantly working, and most often arguing, inside his head.

The American icon Uncle Sam who embodies the American spirit more than any other figure was in fact based on a real man.

Orestes best embodies this value by sparing the life of the Phrygian, driving home the point the beauty of life transcends cultural boundaries whether one be a slave or free man.