personification

The personification of the state and its utilization as a means of selective punishment is precisely what America’s founding fathers fought against.

When the personification of Mandrex asks her why she’s allowing him to make a film about the end of her life, Maria tells him that she wants an aria as part of her third act.

He is the personification of a nation under siege, in a deadly conflict that pits - albeit indirectly – the values, instincts and interests of western democracies against Russia.

To the public, he is the chiseled personification of national virtue.

Until that time, Britannia — the personification of Britain — had been the only character on the bills.