True, George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, is guile incarnate, a Tory Talleyrand to whom Mr Cameron subcontracts his strategic thinking.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

The TIA project has been portrayed as Big Brother incarnate, a wholly unaccountable means for government to collect and utilize private information without regard for Americans' civil rights.

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Google is also doing some amazing things like self-driving cars but increasingly is portrayed as evil incarnate having betrayed a dying Steve Jobs and apparently in denial about their actions.

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The unfulfilled mission of the destroyers to build a temple on the site they say marks the birthplace of Ram, a model king and incarnate deity has haunted Indian politics ever since, poisoning communal relations between Hindus and the Muslim minority.

ECONOMIST: India

That too was seen as retribution for anti-Muslim communal rioting: the killing of some 900 people in Mumbai that followed the destruction of a mosque in the town of Ayodhya, built, many Hindus believe, on the site of a temple marking the birthplace of Ram, a model king and incarnate deity.

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You incarnate for us the angel who put a stop to the calamity.

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