| For instance, the longest exemplum in this section is that of St. Christine, the author's patron saint. |
| Certainly the convent never went to sleep in a sermon which had the tale of Chauntecleer and Pertelote for its exemplum. |
| These events of the early Church and their way of living them constitute for us the exemplum, the model for being Church. |
| He explains how the author has successfully used the rhetorical technique of exemplum to argue a case that, at least on the surface, seemed untenable. |
| After reading this concise examination of Bonhoeffer's life as moral exemplum, it is quite possible the reader will feel the same way. |
| This story is a sort of exemplum of the sin of pride and avarice. |
