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Example sentences for: paragon

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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?
That is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the educated elite, of which Lemann seems to be a paragon.
If they're the same, then Gore is better because he doesn't hold himself out as a paragon of political saintliness.
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?
It conjures up the picture of someone boning up on his “word for the day’ just before attending a cocktail party and then awkwardly trying to steer the conversation in such a way that he can insert a word like paradigm, paragon , or parameter .