Personification Sentence Examples

He was the personification of evil.

She is the personification of the earth suffering from drought, on which the fertilizing rain descends from heaven.

Her bright and airy living room decor is the personification of spring.

It was the personification of an abstract idea.

Kant regarded the devil as a personification of the radical evil in man.

A swarm of bees hived in a straw skep, the picturesque little domicile known the world over as the personification of industry, will furnish their home with waxen combs in form and shape so admirably adapted to their requirements as to need no improvement by man.

Daena, the ideal personification of law and religion, is the object of praise and sacrifice.

Hopkins creates the personification of evil and a character that defines what man is capable of doing to man.

At the primitive stage, however, the degree of personification is, probably, often far slighter than the words used would seem to suggest.

Though nominally the servant of the States of Holland he made himself politically the personification of the province which bore more than half the entire charge of the union, and as its mouthpiece in the states-general he practically dominated that assembly.

Even in the most ancient sources, the female personification of cities is associated with symbols of weddings.

In the Odyssey, she is the wife of Hephaestus, her place being taken in the Iliad by Charis, the personification of grace and divine skill, possibly supplanted by Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty.

Again, because a hero is said to have stolen or brought fire, we need not regard that hero as the personification of fire, and explain all his myth as a fire-myth.

Many nature religions, such as animism, believe that everything found in nature has a personification, a spirit.

Reinach sees in him the fox roaming " in the darkness," to the Thracians a personification of the wine-god, torn in pieces by the Bassarae (fox-maidens).

The Gnosis of which they profess themselves adherents is a personification, the won and mediator "knowledge of life" (see below).

Ariadne is the personification of spring.

Male twins, often drawn as warriors, are the personification of Gemini.

This can help when you're naming various characters and you desire to assign a name that will be a good personification of the character or at the least convey a few of her or his personal traits.

Miguel (q.v.) a personification of the hero-king Sebastian, whose second advent had been expected for two and a half centuries.

The belief in them probably arose out of the doctrine of the older school, which did not deny the existence of the various creations of previous mythology and speculation, but allowed of their actual existence as spiritual beings, and only deprived them of all power over the lives of men, and declared them to be temporary beings liable, like men, to sin and ignorance, and requiring, like men, the salvation of Arahatship. Among them the later Buddhists seem to have placed their numerous Bodhisats; and to have paid especial reverence to Manju-sri as the personification of wisdom, and to Avalokiteswara as the personification of overruling love.

Kolar's principal poem is the Slavy dcera (daughter of Slavia), a personification of the Slavic race.

In classic mythology the personification does not exist; but Comus appears in the EIKOvES, or Descriptions of Pictures, of Philostratus, a writer of the 3rd century A.D.

According to the usual tradition, he was born at Thebes - originally the local centre of his worship in Greece - and was the son of Zeus, the fertilizing rain god, and Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, a personification of earth.

Modern authorities have explained them as the personification of the waves of the sea or of the barren, unproductive coast of Libya; or as the awful darkness of the storm-cloud, which comes from the west and is scattered by the sun-god Perseus.

That personification is, as a rule, anthropomorphic, but traces of theriomorphic personification are still very apparent.

This personification is entirely natural to the Oriental, and though "primitive" is not necessarily an ancient trait.

There is the same kind of personification, fresh examples of the "prophetical interpretation of history," and by the side of the older "primitive" thought are ideas which can only belong to this later period.

In the German mythology the army of darkness is led by Hel, the personification of twilight, sunk to the goddess who enchains the dead and terrifies the living, and Loki, originally the god of fire, but afterwards "looked upon as the father of the evil powers, who strips the goddess of earth of her adornments, who robs Thor of his fertilizing hammer, and causes the death of Balder the beneficent sun."

This fact is again attested by Nabonidus, whose record 5 mentions that the Istar worship of Agade was later superseded by that of the goddess Anunit, another personification of the Istar idea, whose shrine was at Sippar.

Wladislaus was the personification of helpless inertia.

Gnomes, sylphs and nereids are introduced on almost every page, and personification is carried to an extraordinary excess.

Its importance was revived by Augustus, who added to these Lares his own Genius, the religious personification of the empire.

This goddess became the personification of money, and her name was applied both to money and to its place of manufacture.

This latter theory, which in many cases is equivalent to personification, though it may be, like animism, a feature of the philosophy of peoples of low culture, should not be confused with it.

Darkness is likewise a spiritual kingdom (more correctly, it also is conceived of as a spiritual and feminine personification), but it has no "God" at its head.

The personification of Britannia as a female figure may be traced back as far as the coins of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius (early 2nd century A.D.); its first appearance on modern coins is on the copper of Charles II.

Under the later reigns the Tyche figure (the personification of a Greek city) becomes common as a coin type (Wroth, Coins of Parthia, pp. liii., lxxiv.).

The personification of Scorpio being a jealous lover is no exaggeration.

Woods, who began the final round only two shots back of the leader, was the very personification of a curious day.

This is a poetic way of thinking about it, via the poetic trope of personification.

Finally, a narrative reading of Isaiah 53 was offered, with a focus on the literary trope of personification.

Some modern mythologists regard the Minotaur as a solar personification and a Greek adaptation of the Baal-Moloch of the Phoenicians.

Typhon is thus the personification of volcanic forces.

In the Odyssey, where they are represented as bringing round the seasons in regular order, they are an abstraction rather than a concrete personification.

Thus he describes the Loves of the Plants according to the Linnaean system by means of a most ingenious but misplaced and amusing personification of each plant, and often even of the parts of the plant.

Hestia is the goddess of the family union, the personification of the idea of home; and as the city union is only the family union on a large scale, she was regarded as the goddess of the state.

In the Orphic cosmogony the origin of all goes back to Chronos, the personification of time, who produces Aether and Chaos.

As a war-goddess, she is the embodiment of prudent and intelligent tactics, entirely different from Ares, the personification of brute force and rashness, who is fitly represented as suffering defeat at her hands.

The contention for Homer, in short, began at a time when his real history was lost, and he had become a sort of mythical figure, an " eponymous hero," or personification of a great school of poetry.

It is noteworthy that the poet, like Milton, sees in Satan no mere personification of evil, but the fallen archangel, whose awful guilt could not obliterate all traces of his native majesty.

Others see in him a personification of the waves rising to a height and then suddenly falling, or of the treacherous sea.

In later philosophy Hestia became the hearth of the universe - the personification of the earth as the centre of the universe, identified with Cybele and Demeter.

As Friederike had fitted into the background of Goethe's Strassburg life, Lotte into that of Wetzlar, and Lili into the gaieties of Frankfort, so now Charlotte von Stein, the wife of a Weimar official, was the personification of the more aristocratic ideals of Weimar society.

He is regarded as the personification of the Servian race, and stories of strength and wonder have gathered round his name.

The personification of the two great luminaries - the sun and the moon - was the first step in the unfolding of this system, and this was followed by placing the other deities where Shamash and Sin had their seats.

Perhaps Erysichthon may be explained as the personification of the labourer, who by the systematic cultivation and tilling of the soil endeavours to force the crops, instead of allowing them to mature unmolested as in the good old times.

The art of all the area gives evidence of one spirit and common models; in religious representations it shows the same anthropomorphic personification and the same ritual furniture.

According as the one or the other aspect of such a power is brought into the foreground, Ishtar becomes the mother of mankind, the fertile earth, the goddess of sexual love, and the creative force among animals, while at times she appears in hymns and myths as the general personification of nature.

It is probable that she was originally a personification of some department of nature; but the traces of her primitive significance are vague, and have been interpreted to suit various theories.

To Marduk the prophet-god Nabu in his turn became son, and his consort Tashmit (" causing to hear ") was the personification of Revelation.

The New English Dictionary quotes Piers Plowman as containing the earliest personification of the name.

God, for Pure Reason, is an illegitimate personification of the idea of perfected experience (" Ideal of Pure Reason ").

This personification of Death has had as a consequence the introduction into the folklore of many lands of stories, often humorous, of the tricks played on the Enemy of Mankind.

The new deity was a personification of the suns disk.