The phrase "a supreme example" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to highlight something that is considered the best or most representative instance of a particular quality or category.
Example: "The Mona Lisa is often regarded as a supreme example of Renaissance art."
Alternatives: "a prime example" or "an excellent illustration".
He added: "It's a supreme example of midcentury International Style.
(For a supreme example of the genre, see Michael Frayn's "Benefactors").
The American racehorse Ruffian, a supreme example of size, beauty and power, broke a leg in a race at Belmont Park and is buried there.
When the Olympic road race route was unveiled two years ago, it looked like a supreme example of the British sense of fair play.
It's a supreme example of Italian fantasia, a word whose meaning, John Hooper explains, "lies somewhere on the permeable frontier between imagination and creativity".
To me, this is a supreme example of how one can be unhappy and simultaneously aware that delight remains in the world.
Most famous of all, a perfectly painted pipe in Treachery of Images from 1929 has the legend, "This is not a pipe", in the supreme example of Magritte's obsession with bringing words into the picture, not just as a comment on the painting but also as source of ambiguity and multi-meanings themselves.
The Falklands may be the supreme example; to an outsider, sending a British war fleet thousands of miles into the southern hemisphere seemed like a comic anachronism.
Hawking has been held up as the supreme example of a human being who has triumphed over a failing body to achieve scientific and literary success.
George Orwell cited it as the "supreme example" of a " 'good bad' book": "It is an unintentionally ludicrous book, full of preposterous melodramatic incidents; it is also deeply moving and essentially true".
It is, in other words, apparently the supreme example of a literature that might have been the province of a few dedicated esoterics operating in the stratosphere of philosophical speculation; with a limited art house audience to match.
