Body Quotes

Body refers to physical frame. It commonly describes main section, coherent group, and material entity, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to the shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated), a three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone, and to give body or shape to something, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Body as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include to construct the bodywork of a car, to embody, to murder someone, and to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term. Body therefore works well as a quotation category because it can hold direct statements about the subject, figurative uses that borrow its meaning, and broader reflections that stay anchored to the same central idea.

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Martha Graham

(1894-1991)