And even as a girl, I was furious with Charles Dickens for letting Nancy get bludgeoned in Oliver Twist and, later, outraged that Samuel Richardson heaped pain and indignity on Clarissa and called her "an Exemplar to her sex" as though learning to suffer well made us exemplary.
The New Testament account of her humility and obedience to the message of God have made her an exemplar for all ages of Christians.
"Anastacia became known among nurses, who saw in her an exemplar of selfless healing," Mr. Burdick wrote.
Nor could she ever know that her queenly exemplar: "Keep your relationship top priority," would make fine advice for today's busy wedding-planning brides.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom Hillary presented as her presidential exemplar in his big campaign kick-off on New York's Roosevelt Island in June, certainly saw much the same thing in his day.
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif ., who has workeD-Calif .senwhocel on communications issues, points to has as an exemplar in her field.
Our conversation defaults to her favourite exemplars, Dickens, Balzac and the bestselling writers of the 19th century.
They see her moral exemplars as people of unbreached integrity, with colorful and remarkable lives, made more remarkable by their philosophical depth.
Breton also claimed her as an exemplar of international Surrealism.
And on Beattie goes, publishing one wry story after another in the welcoming pages of The New Yorker (three stories in 1974, five in 1975, four in 1976, and so on); she becomes so intimately associated with the magazine that people begin to talk of a New Yorker school of short fiction, with her as its exemplar.
