incarnate

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A wealthy purveyor of pop music, he pulls up to the villa in a snarling Maserati with a surprise in tow: his teenage daughter Penelope, incarnated by the willowy, whispery Birkin.

From New York Times

“After months of failure, with France besieged, Napoleon was able to incarnate order.”

From New York Times

Filming this, and telling the actor how to incarnate this longing, and making a film on this theme was a great pleasure.

From Salon

The “Star Trek” legend here incarnates Victor Martin, a former test pilot living his retirement dream in Palm Springs, tooling around in a silver Porsche.

From New York Times

The performance “takes up the burden of incarnating and exorcising both the monster of Hoover’s imagination and a martyr of the Black Power movement,” the Times critic A.O.

From New York Times