Sentence examples for representative men from inspiring English sources

His warrant is Baudelaire: "All great men are bêtes; all representative men who represent, or men who represent multitudes.

Every university and factory has their party representative, men and women of unwavering faith in Putin.

Originally, Gray chose three Romans as representative men of achievement: Cato, Tully and Caesar.

In their exasperated, half-baked (or, in the reefer-mad Kumar's case, fully baked) way, these representative men mock all sides.

He said that Mr. Amichai was like one of Emerson's "representative men," updated and living in Jerusalem, a prophet who "speaks in the guise of an ordinary Jewish citizen concerned with his people and his place".

but in practical service it was most difficult to effect"); S. Rep. 1049, 52d Cong., 1st Sess., 5 (1892) ("These representative men, speaking for thousands of their associates, say that what they desire is uniformity, and that the danger of their calling has increased rather than diminished by the introduction of different types of couplers").

Our more nuanced view of the powerful, the celebrated and the revered gave rise to a more compromised representative man.

According to Berman, intellectuals like Buruma and Garton Ash have helped Ramadan "become a representative man of our age".

And since life itself is hybrid, unfolding along the border of — to borrow a phrase — being and nothingness, Augustus Rose is something of a representative man.

Miles, who has served a few terms on the school board and volunteers to paint his parish church, is both a solid citizen and a representative man.

The difference between a mere "Psycho" and an "American Psycho" is the difference between a weirdo living in a lonely motel and someone who, though an even bigger weirdo, is a Wall Street slickster, and so a representative man.