Word: exemplar
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...Christian doctrinal development, if necessary, to preserve and emphasize what he considers the central, essential and irreducible message of the church: God as the loving personal ground of existence, Jesus as the suffering servant in whom God is seen as "breaking through," and whose self-giving life is the exemplar...
After stating his request, Pope Paul inspired speculation that he himself might retire when he reaches 75. He made a pilgrimage to the castle of Fu-mone, near Rome, where Celestine V lived upon quitting the papacy in 1294 -an exemplar of a Pope who retired. Dante condemned Celestine's abdication as an act of cowardice and relegated him to the antechamber of hell. Paul chicled Dante and enigmatically went on to praise Celestine, both for accepting the papacy against his will and for stepping down when he realized that he was not equal to the task...
...from a pet shop and is entangled in a bleak, Kafkaesque nightmare while trying to return it. Painting a surprisingly harsh portrait of Communism's common man, Evald Schorm, 34, debunks bureaucracy with unmuffled freedom in his Courage for Every Day. Chosen by a magazine as the exemplar of the socialist ideal, a factory worker stumbles over every slogan, ends by trying to numb his senses with sex and alcohol...
...foreign aid program was known as one of Washington's quickest routes to early retirement. In its first 13 years, the program consumed no fewer than nine directors, none of whom lasted longer than two years. By such standards, the program's tenth director has been an exemplar of endurability. Last week, when David E. Bell, 47, turned in his resignation as administrator of the Agency for International Development, he had put in a record three and a half years...
...fellow men even when he can no longer stand to be polite to them. Montand's wife, Simone Signoret, as the fading actress, establishes the aura of attractive pathos that has become her trademark. And their daughter, Catherine Allegret, who plays the young girl, is a charming exemplar of wholesome patience and competence...