| And if these too-good-to-be-true paragons can also deliver the goods, it'll be the best change in management style since casual Friday. |
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| It takes courage to make such a joke, to admit that those who died were not paragons but incomplete, unsatisfactory human beings. |
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| The purpose of the exercise is not to turn the butterflies into paragons of health, but rather to test their long-distance flight performance. |
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| In his college years at William and Mary he came to admire Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and John Locke as three great paragons of wisdom. |
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| In this case, we are treating women like they are saints, angels, or paragons of virtue. |
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| Despite his years of preaching the essential honorability of man, van Merkensteijn never expected that all his employees would be paragons. |
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| People with pain can be fractious and difficult, and elderly people may not be paragons of charm and cheerfulness. |
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| Some countries have indeed reduced emissions to some extent, but there are no true paragons. |
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| And Chinese manufacturers are hardly paragons of energy efficiency. |
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| It is also surprising that these western superpowers, paragons of democratic virtues, are preparing so cynically to breach the peace. |
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| By the time the Moon opposes Neptune in Pisces, midweek, you already see through mercenaries masquerading as paragons of virtue. |
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| Steelmaking scrapes by on microscopic margins that make even airlines look like paragons of profitability. |
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| Many leaders on the continent are hardly paragons of democracy themselves, and so would never condemn a fellow despot. |
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| Once again the paragons of clean accounting in the government opposite are misleading Canadians. |
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| If we are the paragons of virtue and the defenders of transparency in all circumstances, why are we ourselves not prepared to be transparent? |
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| We propose to interrogate ourselves on the historical validity and the perspectives of these four paragons in the artistic activity. |
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| The Wise Men of the Constitutional Council really deserved their nickname, they were paragons of wisdom! |
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| Of course if it were as simple as that, we'd all be paragons of meal planning. |
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| The cold was no match for these paragons of athletic prowess and goodwill. |
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| Funloving hedonists who have spent three years doing nothing but drinking and cavorting in seedy nightclubs suddenly become paragons of academic virtue. |
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| Many civilians outside the wonderful world of the City, having been lectured about their overdrafts, assumed that the banks were paragons of financial conservatism. |
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| That's why Vertika is determined to keep ahead of your changing needs in the preservation, renovation and maintenance of our architectural paragons. |
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| Certainly, the Peruvian media are far from paragons. |
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| While these agencies are not always paragons of efficiency, coherence, and independence, more diffuse structures seem to suffer many serious problems. |
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| It is unlikely that these countries will be able to transform themselves into the paragons of virtue they are supposed to be before they can join in one year's time. |
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| Some tend to associate it only with work. It is not unusual for people to be paragons of conscientiousness on the job, and yet be lax in meeting their obligations to their spouses, families and communities. |
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| Organic farmers are paragons of lifelong learning. |
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| Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Russia, Sudan, Congo, Mauritania, Indonesia and Cuba, all paragons of democracy, rushed to the support of the Forbidden City representative. |
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| With Bouvard and Pécuchet, Flaubert has chosen to write an anti-novel, whose anti-heroes, paragons of stupidity, devote themselves to a quest for truth, beginning over and over again and ending each time in catastrophe. |
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| Parents who are not in the habit of using polite expressions such as please and excuse me cannot expect their children to suddenly become paragons of decorum in outside company. |
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| I would gladly accept some bike clutter in exchange for fewer cars congesting the streets and polluting the air if cyclists didn't make taxi drivers seem like paragons of road safety. |
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| Edith Wharton got this spot in The Custom of the Country, where her heroine – the sublimely monstrous Undine Spragg – defames not one, but two paragons of former husbands with the charge. |
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