Sentence examples for exemplary figure from inspiring English sources

But from Kotkin's standpoint, Lenin is scarcely an exemplary figure.

In interviews, Mildred Loving is a truly exemplary figure, at once gentle and determined.

The exemplary figure here is Norman Mailer, whose 1959 "Advertisements for Myself" is the height of writerly chutzpah.

It was bad luck as well as talent that made Cheever an exemplary figure, the bad luck of being so deeply divided.

This strategy, which Robinson accepts, turns him into something of a goody-goody, an exemplary figure who demands nothing for himself except a chance.

This zigzagging has made him an intriguing and in some ways exemplary figure in contemporary world cinema, and the movies themselves show remarkable exuberance and versatility.

Liquid-like ionic conductors in the copper selenide family represent a promising class of thermoelectric materials capable of recycling waste heat into electrical energy with an exemplary figure-of-merit (zT > 1.4) above 800 K.

We have always looked up to exemplary figures, first gods, then monarchs, and now celebrities.

The curators call the artists "exemplary figures": Warhol representing modernity and the "American century" and Ai Weiwei contemporary life in the Chinese century" to come.

For example, one study has shown that presenting whites with images of exemplary figures from black history such as Martin Luther King, Jr. reduces their knee-jerk negative evaluations of blacks and their knee-jerk positive evaluations of whites.

Exemplary figures who intervened in one's present by means of the life of the mind that allow you touchstones and milestones, high standards of excellence, [foreign word] in the language of the Greeks.