Word: paragone
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...fact, it is these small idiosyncrasies that make us identify with her and compel us to keep coming back for more. Without them, she might very well stand as a more ideal role model for young women. But would we identify or empathize with a paragon of social and professional virtue and excellence? No, probably...
...image reinforced, perhaps overdone, by slinking movements and exaggerated gestures. As their victim, Lavinia, Zimmett grows more like them in her thirst for revenge--which she manages to convey without uttering a word. Interestingly, even in the beginning, Zimmett makes it clear that Lavinia isn't quite the paragon of innocence and virtue we might expect: there's an amusing non-verbal interplay between her and Tamora, in which she leaves no doubts as to her opinion of the barbarian prisoner...
...following chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Goizueta fell gravely ill with a throat infection and fever and never recovered. In his lifetime, Roberto Goizueta was as synonymous with Coke as its contour bottle. At his death, he was a byword beyond his corporation: the poster boy for shareholder value, a paragon for Wall Street...
...Washington's Brookings Institution and co-author of The Evolution of the Airline Industry. On the other hand, he notes, Midwest's reach may be limited in the long term by the industry's trend toward lower costs and cheaper fares to match, exemplified by that mass-transit paragon, Southwest Airlines...
...blending humor, pathos, sympathy and rage. The effect is visceral, a queasy feeling that the bottom has fallen out of civilization, and despite our faith in reason, irrationality rules. "He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach--that it makes no sense," Roth writes about his paragon of decency and convention, Seymour ("Swede") Levov, star athlete of Weequahic High in Newark, New Jersey, during the early 1940s...