22 collocations for bodies

As the first priestly period, following the first prophetic epoch, bodied that double movement in a bookDeuteronomy; so the second priestly period, following the second prophetic epoch, bodied this double movement in a book, or group of booksthe present form of the Pentateuch.

The organization never bodies fully the spirit of the inspiration.

Consciousness says we have a body, body a brain, and pressure on the brain stops consciousness; hence a close connection between the brain and consciousness.

If in the "Chastisement of Mansour" he bodies forth the consequences of unbridled Libertinism, in the "Grip of Desire" he demonstrates the evils attendant on a life of forced Celibacy.

The little hoe-cake he gives them, takes but a mill of the wealth with which they fill his purse; and should his extravagance lighten it somewhat, he has only to order his brutal overseer to sellsoul and body some poor creature; perchance a husband, or a wife, or a child, and forward to him the proceeds of the sale.

There was needed a man to body these scattered elements, to fuse the forces of the nation into a personality, to live the dreams which a race had visioned.

The story of "The Mercenary Lover" (1726) involved, besides the ability to body forth emotion, considerable power to show a gradual degradation in the character of one of the heroines.

The images of Platothose images in which alone he could adequately body forth his intuitions of eternitypresent the twofold attitude of our nature, in mind and heart, toward the ideal with vivid distinctness; and they illustrate the more intimate power of beauty, the more fundamental reach of emotion, and the richness of their mutual life in the soul.

He has set himself to compose twelve oratorios, which shall body forth the whole life of the Saviour.

Is it possible by any effort of imagination to body forth the links which can solidly connect the ideas which live and work and grow on one side, with the ideas which are represented by the facts and principles of the other side?

But, whatever distinguished Orientalists may say, undistinguished Occidentalists may be pardoned for inquiring when it was that this stream of Phoenician emigration flowed to the American shores, in what manner such an enormous body of colonists as the hypothesis necessarily supposes were conveyed hither, and what has become of their descendants.

(c) The able bodied out-of-works, and (d) The religious mendicants.

POETRY, the gift of penetrating into the inner soul or secret of a thing, and bodying it forth rhythmically so as to captivate the imagination and the heart.

Then come the matchless scenes that body forth the short romance of Margaret, her quick infatuation, her loss of virgin honor, the death of her mother and brother, her shame and misery, her agonizing death in prison.

Yet speak I to the winds; for language all in vain Creatively essays to body forth such shapes.

It's jist killin' me, body an' soul.

And so, without any distinct purpose and without any unseemly effort, I thought out and bodied forth our everlasting substances in this dignified style.

When he entered upon office, in his frequent harangues from the tribunal, he was not more vehement in restraining the commons than in reproving the senate, owing to the listlessness of which body the tribunes of the commons, now become a standing institution, exercised regal authority, by means of their readiness of speech and prosecutions, not as if in a republic of the Roman people, but as if in an ill-regulated household.

All that Moses could have hoped to do was to body his seminal truth in an institution, that should keep it alive in the nation until the proper conditions were found for its quickening and growth.

In a word, within the compass of three hundred lines of verse, Chaucer contrives to body forth his ageto give us something which is typical.

The other intimacy was one of those for which human speech will never, perhaps, be called upon to body forth its describing word.

The images of Platothose images in which alone he could adequately body forth his intuitions of eternitypresent the twofold attitude of our nature, in mind and heart, toward the ideal with vivid distinctness; and they illustrate the more intimate power of beauty, the more fundamental reach of emotion, and the richness of their mutual life in the soul.

22 collocations for  bodies