Word: exemplar
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...With his convulsively entertaining style, Limbaugh is also the prime exemplar of the crucial debate America is now having with itself, at the decibel level of a Metallica concert. What should the level of political discourse be in an election campaign, or on radio and TV, or at the office water cooler? At what point does comic exaggeration shade into slander? When everyone is shouting, is anybody listening...
...tends to fall away, because one end of the cord is no longer anchored in the world and its objects. This is not an argument against abstraction, but it helps explain why, in those abstract paintings that derive from Matisse, one so rarely feels the urgency of their great exemplar...
Later, during the question and answer period, Black Law Students Association member David Strick-land criticized Fried's use of Jeffries as "an exemplar...
Later, during the question and answer period, Black Law Students Association member David Strickland criticized Fried's use of Jeffries as "an exemplar...
...writings, the Pope has given a conservative tilt to the meaning of Mary's life. The Pontiff's 1988 apostolic letter Mulieris Dignitatem (On the Dignity and Vocation of Women), citing positions taken at Vatican II, declared that "the Blessed Virgin came first as an eminent and singular exemplar of both virginity and motherhood." He extolled both states as ways women could find their dignity...