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The issue that bothers me is that, as the supposed paragon of virtue of the Democratic Party, why does Gore apparently go to the very limit of the definition to condone his actions?
Still, though Thatcher may have been more ambitious than the typical woman, she was a paragon of ideological fidelity compared with Clinton (or Ronald Reagan).
In passing, we cannot refrain from reiterating our perennial complaint about the typography of the newer dictionaries: although the body text is a paragon of clarity, the headwords are set in bold sans-serif type, which makes the characters of some words indistinguishable.
(Those who think of California as a paragon of avant-garde thought may need reminding that the school-marms there succeeded in banning the sale of the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, in the 1970s, by which time one might have thought that their moral fiber would have caught up with their professed modernity.)
Is it possible that M&S are serious in invoking Archie Bunker, the archbigot of all time, as a model of understanding and a paragon of modern English usage?