Word: paragoning
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...apparently conflicting ideals of being at once modern and timeless. While composers plead for the chance to break free from the constraints of the 18th and 19th Centuries, they tacitly concur with the critics (and the audiences), who cling to their touchstones, comparing every modern composition to the classical paragon in its form, usually harshly, often unfairly applying criteria that are not altogether suitable. The composer faces the choices of breaking definitely with the musical past; or creating a new mainstream of music by appealing to the pre-Palestrina composers; or deliberately continuing in the traditions of the great classical...
...deal; then a purposeful mood of profit taking falls upon him, and he unleashes the right hand. It has brought him twelve knockouts in his 21 pro fights, all of which he won. No windmill mixer, Ingo is so conspicuously unmarked that he often works as a model. A paragon of gentlemanly rectitude outside the ring, he wears natty golf-club blazers, eats with his fork and never forgets his estate. After Patterson's diet of dreary semiamateurs (Pete Rademacher, Roy Harris), Ingo is likely to prove Floyd's first pro foe. Said Ingo: "I am sure that...
Doctor Rock was probably intended as a tragic figure; he fails of tragic stature partly because Thomas has made him often willfully nasty, less superhuman than inhuman. The scenes with his pretty young paragon of a wife, which were probably supposed to loosen him up, are a total loss, as the young lady has no qualities except loyalty, humility, and a talent for making her husband talk in passionate puerilities...
...fact, just about the only thing this paragon does not give his paramour is his name. "I'm sorry," he says sadly, "but I'm married, and I can't get a divorce." She accepts the explanation along with his advances, but a few months later she discovers that he is really not married at all. Naturally enough, the lady is vexed. "How dare he make love to me and not be a married man!" And she hatches an absurdly sinister plot, involving "the other man," to make the bluffer suffer. But the plot miscarries...
...work so celebrated and so concise, the Book of Job seems to be much misunderstood by men in both pew and pulpit. Some think of Job as the paragon of patience; to others, Job appears so impatient that he dares impiety in his insistence that God explain himself. Many Bible scholars see the Book of Job as an attempt to justify God's ways to men; but to another school of thought, the book's enormous thesis means simply that no justification is possible-only revelation, before which the man who cries for justice and understanding must...