Sentences with phrase «embodiment of a particular kind»

But to place this car in the gallery seems to miss the point, offering it as an object of aesthetic contemplation and period design rather than the embodiment of a particular kind of fantasy that suffused»60s culture, that often found its expression in a burgeoning ethos of conspicuous consumption.

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Liman, Cruise, and Spinelli have certainly succeeded in turning Seal's life into entertainment, but they've failed at making his life art, political art that doesn't just depict a particular man's life, but also his times, with all of the complexity, contradictions, and complications that implies, up to and including depicting Seal not just as a romantic anti-hero, but as the personification of a particular kind of American individualism and exceptionalism, going anywhere, doing anything, and facing few, if any consequences, to borrow the title of Graham Greene's politically prescient novel, the embodiment of the «Ugly American.»