incarnate

Islamic fasting is oriented toward submission to divine will, while Christian penance is animated by gratitude for the incarnate God who suffered, died and rose again for the salvation of humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

He could have become a celebrity without breaking a sweat as the war hero, the jock, the husband, the cowboy, the American ideal made incarnate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

The former cop and Secret Service agent spent nearly a decade losing three congressional races in two different states before settling into a groove as steroids incarnate with a microphone.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2025

Rep. Matt Gaetz said, “Mr. Weiss was here incarnate, but not particularly in spirit.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

He’s forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Santos incarnates its venal and ridiculous side, the part rooted in reality TV and get-rich-quick schemes.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

“He incarnates this figure of authority,” Gilles Holder, a Mali expert at the CNRS, told the New York Times.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022

For Taseer, Benares incarnates a curious quality of modernity: the city makes anthropologists of the devout and believers of the skeptical.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019

Golding, meanwhile, incarnates the screen charisma of a young Tyrone Power; he has only to flash his mega-watt smile to slip a scene into his immaculately tailored pocket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2018

Is there a single figure in the fresco representing the “Triumph of St. Thomas” which incarnates the idea it symbolises, which, without its labelling instrument, would convey any meaning whatever?

From The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance With An Index To Their Works by Bernard Berenson

"She truly incarnated the love and passion of Jesus for people here," she added.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Erivo, a musical theater divinity, incarnated Elphaba from the inside out while delivering the power ballads with as much feeling as vocal majesty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024

This change was made in the name of the one who incarnated the movement and its national revolution.

From Salon ● May 30, 2024

“Robert Badinter never ceased to advocate the Enlightenment,” President Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media, hailing him as a “figure of the century” who incarnated the “French spirit.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

When he entered a tournament, dressed in a khaki shirt and pants and dark tie and displaying that mustache, it was as if a doppelgänger of Der Fuehrer had been incarnated.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The counselors known as Jerry, who serve as vessels through which the universe expresses itself and guide new souls through the process of incarnating on Earth, are illustrated in the film as two-dimensional line figures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2020

Aretha became a revolution by incarnating powerful ideas and desires that were sloshing around seeking a vessel strong enough to contain them.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2018

As Thorpe, his face lupine and jowly, his cheeks hollowed, Mr. Grant undergoes a remarkable transformation, incarnating a man addicted to danger and entirely certain that others will help him evade the consequences.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2018

The first softens as it goes, incarnating Jesus’ earthly despair:

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016

Hindu scriptures teach that the incarnating ego requires a million years to obtain liberation from MAYA.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda