Word: exemplar
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...search for logic in anti-Americanism is fruitless. It is in the air the world breathes. Its roots are envy and self-loathing - by peoples who, yearning for modernity but having failed at it, find their one satisfaction in despising modernity's great exemplar...
Aesop, a.k.a. Ian Bavitz, has been developing both his flow and his fan base for several years now, beginning with a string of self-released discs. He is referred to by some as the exemplar of “backpack rap,” a strain of hip-hop supposedly characterized by intellectual rhymes and nerdy beats—what Aesop refers to as “the cliché of a white kid with a backpack...
...life that’s lived according to consistent precepts,” Zwick says of the bushido, “I think the idea of trying to codify an idealized way of life is a very beautiful thing to contemplate. Even if that only stands as an exemplar in the abstract, it’s still beautiful...
...courtly Lord Hutton, exemplar of the British establishment, formally ended his brisk, floodlit march into its innermost corners last week. He will not have an easy time figuring out why weapons expert David Kelly was moved to kill himself in July. A psychiatrist suggested that Kelly's public exposure - after admitting to his managers that he had talked to BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan - had caused "the severe loss of self-esteem ... from feeling that [his employers] had lost trust in him." But whatever Hutton can deduce about the anguish that Kelly took to his grave, the millions of words...
Polished, professional and articulate, 2003 winner Erika Harold is the exemplar of the new Miss America. Her multiracial background, firm right-wing beliefs and upcoming Harvard Law School attendance have gotten more attention than her swimsuit catwalking or small town parading...