In their willingness to substitute a form of re-creation for creation, the novels of Messrs Rufin, Garcin and Schmitt may be seen to exemplify something of a fashion in contemporary French fiction.
Their story held a morbid Harry Crosby-esque fascination: their beauty and promise and intense romance, taken with their disturbing ends (she by pills; he, almost two weeks later, by swimming into the ocean off Rockaway Beach), seemed to exemplify something about the era.
Often child prodigies exemplify something familiar to a society -- the pursuit of mathematics, for instance -- in a way that's unfamiliar.
Meanwhile, to those who despair of him, traingate exemplifies something completely different: Mr Corbyn's almost comical hopelessness as a leader who is taking Labour into the wilderness.
What I would say is that this incident exemplified something that was going on all along the march to the eurodebacle.
Farimani, with its streaming, tangling mix of words, images, sounds and ideas, exemplifies something like the "hybrid model" that Independent says its wants to be but is not, or at least not in any mold-breaking way.
Mr. Godfrey's experience exemplifies something a few AIDS specialists have long suspected, and cardiologists have now found evidence to support: People infected with H.I.V. have more heart attacks and have them earlier in life.
Analyzing Kurt Cobain's appearances on television, he says that Cobain mattered to his fans mainly as a disembodied entity, not as an individual with a voice, and that he exemplified something called "the postmodern dispositif".
But for all his keen appreciation of logistics, Napoleon, as a young privilege-rejecting Jacobin, also exemplified something more McChrystalesque: the notion that soldiers should live austere, even ascetic lives.
It's hard to write two consecutive rants about Minnie Mouse without feeling a little silly, but this issue has sparked such serious debate among my friends and colleagues, I can't help but truly believe the Disney/Barney's debacle exemplifies something substantial.
When we made the leap last year to become the only 'directors' theatre' on the West Coast, we were looking for something to exemplify what our mission is.
