Sentence examples for a paragon when from inspiring English sources

The Financial Times is a paragon when seen beside almost all the other daily newspapers.

Orwell is admired for being a paragon when he was, self-consciously, a naysayer and a misfit.

This privileged Harvard doctor can hardly see himself as a paragon of virtue, when his measure is Dorothy Day.

Mr. Lowe said that Newsday was a paragon of integrity when he was hired as a proof boy in the composing room in 1964.

His socialist sympathies certainly made no difference to Microsoft, a paragon of capitalism, when it recruited him to set up a corporate research lab in Cambridge, which opened in 1997.

And it is a paragon of efficiency when set beside the rest of the Brazilian state, which although of first-world size (eating up 40.9% of GDP in 2008) delivers third-world services, such as a legal system that cannot enforce contracts.

If there's a slight sense of amiable contrivance to it all, it's a paragon of authenticity when viewed beside A Second Chance (Entertainment One, 15), perhaps the worst film to date by Susanne Bier, that peculiarly erratic queen of Scandi melodrama.

The U.S. is hardly a paragon of virtue when it comes to states abusing licensing procedures to protect politically connected incumbent businesses.

The Scandinavian countries are often seen as paragons when it comes to gender equality and support for parenthood.

Ingela Björk 9 January 2004 The Scandinavian countries are often seen as paragons when it comes to gender equality and support for parenthood.

Occasionally, Frost's prose becomes so contorted that it nearly overwhelms the clichés: "That his dreadful short putting scratched a ragged flaw across the face of such a paragon only increased their affection when they saw him deal with his Achilles' heel so gracefully".