Saddam Hussein admired, studied and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.
"I have a hard time having fun, period, and he was the paragon of fun".
Public Enemy's Chuck D. went so far as to attack the most sacred of all white rock stars (and, not incidentally, the paragon of white appropriation of black music): "Elvis was a hero to most / but he never meant shit to me".
It astonishes me that the country that touts itself as the beacon of democracy and fairness in the world, the paragon of justice and equality, does not have a uniform method of voting.
It turned chronic myeloid leukemia from a death sentence into a chronic disease for many patients and is still considered the paragon of molecularly targeted drugs.
And it contributed to an unusual homecoming for a man who was born in New Haven, where his father was a Yale student, became the third generation of Bushes to attend the school and later, for reasons personal and political, cast Yale as the paragon of an uncomely intellectual elitism.
Bond was an embodiment of post-war prosperity and Cold-War irony and that's what made him the paragon of cool.
To him and his contemporaries she was the paragon of feminine virtue, the proof of her goodness being that she didn't wish to outlive her man.
EnidColeslaw gave a literary second chance: After having seen the romantic "dramedy" One Day at the cinema, I thought it obvious to steer clear of David Nicholls's works, and snobbishly dismissed him as the paragon of mushy lit that was not worthy of my TBR (the literary meanness can go far!).
Frank Underwood is the paragon of human (and one time, animal) manipulation and treachery.
