Mark Feinsand, the Yankees beat writer for The New York Daily News informs me that Swisher was one of the best go-to-guys in the Yankees clubhouse, was an exemplary clubhouse guy, who always brought a positive attitude to the clubhouse and field.
Much as it's easier to write a memorable negative review than a memorable positive one, so it is often easier to create a charismatic evildoer than an exemplary good guy.
The scale of Voldemort's ambition and the perfection of his depravity made him one of the exemplary movie bad guys of his time — the slithery Satanic verve of Ralph Fiennes's noseless performance certainly helped — but by the final installment in the franchise, his imperial, metaphysical badness had lost some of its negative sublimity.
"We knew our guys were exemplary pilots," she said.
"As salaam alaikum, pastrami!" This Bedford-Stuyvesant institution inspires vocal exuberance, the subtext of which seems to be: Thank goodness for Brooklyn, where Yemeni Muslim guys serve exemplary Jewish deli sandwiches to a predominantly African-American crowd.
"He was an exemplary student and a nice guy," said Kristen Myers, one of his professors when Mr. Kazmierczak was in college here.
He got into acting while employed as an apprentice plumber in a Woodstock theatre, and, after much TV work, had an exemplary career in Hollywood as an inexorable tough guy.
I love this guy, and I love the company that embraces his exemplary commitment to honesty, integrity, and genuine virtue.
While you may understandably want to put this unpleasantness behind you and simply find a new agent, it would be exemplary if you could give a thought to the next client who'll walk through this guy's door.
"Exemplary, exemplary!" he cried.
