Sentence examples for living exemplar from inspiring English sources

Higgins is a living exemplar of the axiom "form is temporary, class is permanent".

After 20 years he is a living exemplar of Lord Acton's warning, a cliche by now but still so often true: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

Ms. Mentzer and Mr. Rutenberg will offer works by two of these composers and one living exemplar of the heritage this evening at the Morgan Library in a program called "Women in Love: The Songs of Alma Mahler, Clara Schumann and Libby Larsen".

The editorialists of the Wall Street Journal, who last year dismissed ethics criticisms of DeLay as "amusing," now write sternly, "Mr. DeLay, who rode to power in 1994 on a wave of revulsion at the everyday ways of big government, has become the living exemplar of some of its worst habits".

His eagerness for her to be a living exemplar of Unitarian theology, a pure creature naturally endowed with goodness and spiritual understanding, led him to falsify his portrait of her, to leave out the ways in which she was aggressive, temperamental and uncouth.

Welty's collected works are now being published in two stout volumes by the Library of America, but she has already entered the national pantheon as a kind of favorite literary aunt — a living exemplar of the best that a quaint and disappearing Southern society still has to offer.

All three, says Mr Wright, "saw themselves as living exemplars of prophetic tradition".

Then he actually met the Struldbruggs, the living exemplars of what longer life really was, and his fantasies about defeating death were laid to rest.

Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk The three protagonists saw themselves as "living exemplars of prophetic tradition" and for a fortnight subjected each other to mind-numbing speeches about the rightness of each of their causes.

"Hearing Ulysses read in all these multiple voices and multiple accents, living exemplars of the book's own multiple voices and styles, its huge variety and range of linguistic expression, should be an inspiring experience," the newspaper wrote.

Last, young (and eventually not-so-young) people living with SCD themselves serve as living exemplars of people with SCD in education, in employment, and as parents and carers.