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    paragon


    paragons


    1. All of the political parties identified with her recent struggle, praising her for her actions, and she was held up as a paragon of good old fashioned and traditional values by the true blues of the political firmament


    2. she was held up as a paragon of good old fashioned and traditional


    3. I find it interesting that the major premise in a syllogism, that paragon of deductive logic, is always an instance of induction, which itself can never give an absolute truth


    4. Not exactly a paragon of morality


    5. He knew that he wasn’t exactly a paragon of virtue in the arena, but at least he tried to keep his fights short


    6. Gerrid was no paragon of virtue, admittedly, but Tanya didn’t seem to care how many men she had, or what she did with them


    7. “As opposed to the paragon of serenity she was before?”


    8. Later, we met on the corner of Paragon and Fishergate


    9. awe of Moses as their paragon and honor many other biblical prophets


    10. ” Raj was really a role model for all of us; because he had shown paragon in his every activities

    11. Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, who is revered as a paragon


    12. Why can’t they take a leaf out of the life of that incomparable paragon of the Hindu-Muslim synthesis, the music maestro Allauddin Khan of Maihar gharana


    13. He pictured himself as a paragon of


    14. If, her nerves being already on edge, I were to suggest to her even smilingly to be quiet, she would at once give notice--I know she would--and the dreary search begin again for that impossible treasure you in England call a paragon and we in Jena call a pearl


    15. She’s a fucking paragon, and I am a… parasite


    16. “What could I do, pet,” this feminist paragon whined, “I’m just not that way inclined


    17. He does this all the time, comes over all cocky and then switches to some deep-thinking paragon, as when I


    18. The paragon poet shoulders the world And as an enlightened despot,


    19. The paragon poet shoulders the world


    20. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!

    21. Earnshaw was not to be civilised with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point--


    22. If you, reader, had been one of the hands, would you have slogged? Or would you have preferred to starve and see your family starve? If you had been in Crass's place, would you have resigned rather than do such dirty work? If you had had Hunter's berth, would you have given it up and voluntarily reduced yourself to the level of the hands? If you had been Rushton, would you rather have become bankrupt than treat your `hands' and your customers in the same way as your competitors treated theirs? It may be that, so placed, you - being the noble-minded paragon that you are - would have behaved unselfishly


    23. Then the Chairman said that the next business was to elect a successor to the departed paragon; and immediately no fewer than nine members rose to propose a suitable person - they each had a noble-minded friend or relative willing to sacrifice himself for the good of the poor


    24. shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon


    25. "'But this paragon has one fault


    26. Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point—one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed—they contrived in the end to reach it


    27. And that unrivalled paragon,


    28. On this subject he was a paragon of chivalry, so that he might sooner or later bestir himself and suddenly proceed to carry out his intentions with that irresistible force which is so very frequently met with in weak characters, for they often have a line beyond which they cannot be driven


    29. The suggestion, it is true, was a faint one, but then Dardanelov was such a paragon of purity and delicacy that it was enough for the time being to make him perfectly happy


    30. You are a grandee in an instant! you, too, are rich now! I will take care that the prince's will is made as it should be; and lastly, Zina, now convinced of your loyalty and faithfulness, will look on you hereafter as her hero, as her paragon of virtue and self-sacrifice! Oh! you must be blind,—blind, not to observe and calculate your own profit when it lies but a couple of strides from you, grinning at you, as it were, and saying, ‘Here, I am yours, take me! Oh, Paul, Paul!’ ”

    31. Truly, sir, it is not to be questioned, but that our faith should be a perfect work towards this paragon of purity


    1. Wizards are hardly paragons of virtue


    2. These paragons of private school rectitude were just as fascinated as the men and women who paid to watch me


    3. Brought to you by those paragons of priestly, cardinal and papal virtue, your friendly neighborhood Catholic Church, “Father” (or if monk, not priest— Brother) de Torquemada and all his lesser-known brothers of the cloth really “saved” a whole mess of deserving “heretics” back then, didn’t they? They knew just how to save them best, too


    4. ‘So what you are saying is that all Nagas are paragons of virtue?’


    5. Just as Americans are now supposed to be paragons of perfection and bravery


    6. Neither the Rebel nor Jenny ever failed or rejected me when I needed them; both of them saintly souls, guardian angels and paragons of friendship


    7. world are paragons of greed, arrogance, and vanity


    8. We do not care for these sensational paragons


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    Synonyms for "paragon"

    beau ideal idol paragon perfection apotheosis ideal nonesuch nonpareil nonsuch saint model quintessence standard idealisation idealization ultimate crown

    "paragon" definitions

    an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept


    model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal