39. The Figurative Sentence - Reification

My sentence:

To please and to please and always to please was the engine of my motivation and the wheels that turned my days.

The word days is NOT what I want; I'll keep looking.

Like most young men, he was made of steel and bullet proof.

Other examples:

"It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech

Dr. King uses the technique of reification frequently in this famous speech. He is referring to The Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln one hundred years before he gave this speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

"In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech

Another example from the same speech.