The enduring 19th-century bread-and-butter works teach young singers that melodic beauty and vocal virtuosity are paramount values, and that in tragic repertory, oceans of larger-than-life emotion can be wrung from stories of star-crossed love and family politics.
Men and women dance the Viennese Waltz together; debutantes are presented in a tiara and diamonds to a suitor suitably reputable to marry; etiquette, dress code, and family background are paramount values; and any diversion from these somewhat archaic values would have you deemed unsuitable for ball culture.
While officials at the Pentagon or the Central Intelligence Agency see secrecy as a paramount value, diplomats embrace openness and depend on foreign visitors.
His endlessly embittered and despairing mother, the paramount value he attaches to family meals, and his evident, though faltering, enthusiasm for therapy suggest that only a little tweaking would have made the HBO series a Jewish show.
However, one critical element seems to be missing too often in these discussions: the paramount value of the First Amendment and of respecting others' free speech rights.
This ability to form, revise, and pursue conceptions of a worthwhile life is taken to be of paramount value, the exclusive source of human dignity, and thereby the basis of human rights (Griffin 2008 27 444).
Freedom of expression has always been and will remain a paramount value of the Guggenheim".
I'm not talking about choice of breakfast cereal or mobile phones, but something more fundamental: the increasingly paramount value we place on having control over our bodies and our identities.
He is also a Muslim theologian who, in addition to running a technology business, spent his time before the Libyan rebellion writing erudite papers arguing that compassion is the paramount value in Islam, that pious Muslims can thrive within a liberal secular state and that even the most righteous ones should adopt a "humble recognition" of their own fallibility.
"Culture, not economic efficiency, is the paramount value," the guide states.
