| People with pain can be fractious and difficult, and elderly people may not be paragons of charm and cheerfulness. |
| It takes courage to make such a joke, to admit that those who died were not paragons but incomplete, unsatisfactory human beings. |
| In this case, we are treating women like they are saints, angels, or paragons of virtue. |
| The purpose of the exercise is not to turn the butterflies into paragons of health, but rather to test their long-distance flight performance. |
| 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. |
| Despite his years of preaching the essential honorability of man, van Merkensteijn never expected that all his employees would be paragons. |
