Hawaii may be a vacation destination and a surfers' paradise, but for some earth scientists it is also an exemplar of a long-sought geological structure.
Here too she appears to me as the very latest, most up-to-date exemplar of a long-standing American cultural current.
Its status as an exemplar of seriousness has long made the book attractive to cultural commissars wishing to emphasise their highbrow credentials.
I'm a fan of both of these great storytellers, but I believe that Middle-earth will be held up as an exemplar of fantasy (and literature) long after Westeros has faded away (though don't tell that to the guy who built the entire city of King's Landing out of Minecraft blocks).
Hollywood, for so long the exemplar of great popular entertainment, now has to cater largely for the under-25s, who make up around 70% of its audiences.
He was Marxism-Leninism's poster boy, a revolutionary enfant terrible and, in a cold war firmament of red stars, the most brilliant, shining – and long-lived – exemplar of recklessly unrepentant revolutionary zeal.
Its opulent fabric and incongruously sporty design make it an exemplar of the offhand luxury that has long defined great American sportswear.
Long considered an exemplar of her craft, Ms. Matera took the sketches of designers and breathed life into them, creating costumes the legendary showman David Merrick once called the best he had ever seen on Broadway.
As for Argentina, it has long been an exemplar of global integration: during the 1990s it abolished trade barriers, opened its capital markets to international money and sold everything, from banks to ports, to foreign investors.
Long held as an exemplar of Chinese technological inventiveness, the rocket – dating from the Sung Dynasty of AD 960-1279 – has changed the face of civilisation.
