The US views itself as a beacon on the hill, a paragon for other nations to emulate.
it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous
It turns out Fields was a huge admirer of hers, but their approaches to comedy, and life, were poles apart - Fields being a master of excess and West a paragon of abstemiousness.
In a country where universities emphasise competitive sports sometimes even more than academics, Notre Dame, in Indiana, was long the paragon of undergraduate football excellence.
I'll be controversial here - because a site I previously held as a paragon of good design has recently broken this rule, and I think oddverse is worse for doing so.
it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous
Over the past 10 years the Minneapolis Star Tribune has made itself a national laughingstock as a paragon of political correctness.
Marigold means well in her vocation, but her strength of character and reputation as a paragon of all virtues isolates her from the reality of messy, suffering, worrying, humanity.
Collins may not have been a paragon of virtue but he deserves better than to be remembered by future generations as a ruthless, self-serving and power-hungry meglomaniac.
your cook is a paragon