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Example sentences for: paragon

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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?
But mightn't a columnist offer sentiments wholly opposed to Anna Q's and seem to his/her readers the paragon of homespun good sense?
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.
The writer of these lines believes that the CD-ROM implementation of Le Grand Robert , for instance, is not only a paragon of dictionary content but of navigation software and of the retrieval tools provided.
Is H. G. Rickover being held up to the user as a paragon of English usage?