Occasionally, Frost's prose becomes so contorted that it nearly overwhelms the clichés: "That his dreadful short putting scratched a ragged flaw across the face of such a paragon only increased their affection when they saw him deal with his Achilles' heel so gracefully".
I have never met a doctor who embodies this paragon of medical vice, but such a pervasive myth cannot be entirely without basis.
In the face of such grinning paragons, my bullshit metre grows deafening.
In the last act Candida's upright husband, the Rev. James Morell (Ciaran O'Reilly), and the love-dazzled poet Eugene Marchbanks Sam Underwoodd) go toe to toe over who best deserves the love of such a female paragon.
Because he's such a paragon of integrity, he turns it down.
Lombardi of course was a mentor, a motivator, a fanatic, a moralist, a molder of men -- such a paragon of leadership skill that he surely could have run anything from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus to the Marine Corps.
It retains much of the most striking, caustic, and funny dialogue from Ford's novels, and Stoppard's additions evoke the spirit and cadence of the source material, as when Sylvia, in decrying her husband's oppressive goodness, sneers, "You're such a paragon of honorable behavior, Christopher.
The Royal Norwegian Explorers Club found him such a paragon of brawn and endeavour that, in a book released this March, they named him one of the greatest adventurers of all time.
The Royal Norwegian Explorers Club found him such a paragon of brawn and endeavor that, in a book released this March, they named him one of the greatest adventurers of all time.
Riverkeeper has been such a paragon of success that it has inspired "waterkeepers" on more than 180 different waterways around the world and is responsible for New York's reputation of having some of the world's finest tap water.
