Jacques Coeur was representative of his generation; his ambitions were traditional: honours, noble rank, land.
With his personal, expressive, and versatile music, he became the most prominent representative of his generation.
Mr. Clinton's tastes are also largely representative of his generation's tastes; Mr. Bush's, by contrast, seem inherited in large measure from his father, who featured many of the same entertainers at his inauguration in 1988.
But Ed Miliband, 43, with no particular sentiment toward the United States, and little feeling for the 20th-century accomplishments of NATO and the trans-Atlantic alliance, is representative of his generation.
He located morality for the artist (pictured, as in Hugo, as the prophet and representative of his generation) in his effort to see and communicate to his contemporaries the truth about themselves.
Although a straw poll of seven Wilds is hardly representative of a generation of communard offspring, it is significant that none of them talk of their childhood as being especially problematic.
They are representative of a generation of alienated Kurds who are, as one parent put it to me, "Unlikely to shake hands".
Dunster clearly conceives him as representative of a generation determined to anaesthetise itself from potential annihilation.
For another, researchers tend to work with samples, like college students, that are not representative of the generation at large.
The anger is representative of a generation of young Europeans who face lower living standards than their parents and little chance of finding a meaningful job.
Only through large-scale inclusive participation, followed by concrete proposals for decision-makers, can the voices of young people become truly representative of their generation.
