Sentence examples for prime exemplars from inspiring English sources

Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Eliot's The Waste Land are prime exemplars of this phenomenon; in fact, Eliot originally chose Kurtz's despairing words as the epigraph for The Waste Land before Pound convinced him to select a quotation culled from Petronius' Satyricon, which ends with "I want to die".

Tiny Iceland is a prime exemplar of the complexities wrought by warming climate.

Although Trump poses as a champion of the common man, he is a prime exemplar and beneficiary of oligarchical capitalism.

He is also now a prime exemplar of South Africa's new black business elite: mid-40's, hyperintelligent, hardworking, well-connected, ambitious, arrogant and still prone to throwing the superhero cape of the freedom fighter over his bespoke pinstriped suits.

The survey of European art from 1907 till 1940 in the painting and sculpture galleries on the second floor of the museum has been the sanctuary and prime exemplar of that same High Modernism ever since the museum was reopened in 1985.

(On this, a lengthy article in The American Interest gathers much of what can be gleaned from public filings and court records). Although Trump poses as a champion of the common man, he is a prime exemplar and beneficiary of oligarchical capitalism.

As he tinkered, Griffith became a prime exemplar of "maker culture" — a community of sophisticated do-it-yourselfers who view hardware in the same provisional way that computer hackers view software, and who believe that making, modifying, and repairing things can be an antidote to throwaway consumerism.

This, it seems, happened: At the 1997 trial of Maurice Papon, prime exemplar of the shames and silences of wartime Vichy (he authorized the deportation of hundreds of Bordeaux Jews to Germany and rose postwar to handsome political office), a man in a home-made clown suit was barred from entering the courtroom.

The seat is also, the focus group indicated, a prime exemplar of the mutual Labour and Conservative conundrum around much of the country of how to make the voters feel that the parties are not just much of a muchness – and are all focused elsewhere anyway.

Those last eight years, before his early death from cancer in 1988, saw him scorned by studios and backers as the archetypal last Hollywood hippie (Ashby can be seen in all his patchouli'd finery in the very first shot of The Landlord, at his own third, beads and kaftan-heavy, wedding that year) and a prime exemplar of the drug-fuelled 70s Hollywood that the suits wanted to get past.

A vast movement arose aimed at proving that the purpose of a firm is to maximize shareholder value as reflected in the current stock price, even though its supposed prime exemplar, Jack Welch, denounced it as "the dumbest idea in the world". I wish I could say that I immediately grasped the validity and importance of Peter Drucker's insight on customer primacy.