personified

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Bardot starred in nearly 50 films including And God Created Woman and Contempt, setting fashion trends with her tousled blonde hair and bold eyeliner, before becoming the model for Marianne, the personified symbol of France.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

In 1969, Bardot came to embody the nation itself after President Charles de Gaulle chose her as a new model for Marianne: a mythical figure that has personified the French Republic since the revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

Amid today’s choppy college football waters, Tim Skipper is leadership personified, steering a unified ship even in defeat.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025

But bassist Garry Tallent never smiled that much, and Springsteen’s onstage foil, the Big Man, Clarence Clemons, was never awkward or gangly the way he is portrayed here; the man was elegance personified.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

In fact, Eric Twilegar personified the social attitude of the hard-core geek—distance, anger, alienation.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz