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Example sentences for "par excellence"

  • Gish is, therefore, the hero-god par excellence; and this shows that we are not dealing with a genuine proper name, but rather with a descriptive attribute.

  • But the art par excellence, that which surpasses all others, because it is incomparably the most expressive, is poetry.

  • The narasinhas of India was called, in the Middle Ages, the king par excellence; thus in Greece the king was also called leon.

  • And yet the grasshopper ought to be the diviner par excellence.

  • One, however, of the two sons of Sarama is especially invoked and feared, the Sarameyas par excellence.

  • More than that, "the sacrifice is so fully the origin of things par excellence, that they have attributed to it not only the origin of man, but even that of the gods.

  • And yet there is perhaps no other category of greater importance; for as the role of the categories is to envelop all the other concepts, the category par excellence would seem to be this very concept of totality.

  • The sacred thing is par excellence that which the profane should not touch, and cannot touch with impunity.

  • We may say that its interdicts are the religious interdicts par excellence.

  • Patriotism is a duty of all classes and all professions; but it is particularly one with those who are commissioned to defend the country: it is, therefore, the military virtue par excellence.

  • We may then say that the duty to exercise one's will and triumph over the passions, is nothing more than duty per se, the duty par excellence, of which all the other duties are but parts.

  • Those who wish their friends well from such a noble motive are the friends par excellence.

  • It is likewise the wine country par excellence.

  • This is a poetic nation par excellence.

  • The importance to the composition of the third or middle shoulder--the Shoulder par excellence of climbers--should also be insisted on, but space does not here admit a lengthier analysis.

  • He who does so count it will agree with me that this is par excellence "the" pass of the Central Alps.

  • The Alps, par excellence, to the normal man are the great groups of snowy peaks in the heart of the Alpine area.

  • If the obsidian mirror was the symbol, par excellence, of Mexican star cult, there are evidences that the small mirror of polished pyrites was that of the sun-cult.

  • The horses went on at a good pace through the thick PAJA-BRAVA, the grass of the Pampas, par excellence, so high and thick that the Indians find shelter in it from storms.

  • Paganel, "it is the field par excellence for the exercise of human energies, and the ship is the true vehicle of civilization.

  • The romantic artist par excellence was Eugène Delacroix, the painter of "The Crusaders Entering Jerusalem.

  • Significant, therefore, is his indifference to Dante, the poet par excellence of the Catholic Middle Age, the epitomizer of mediaeval thought.

  • But the mystic, par excellence, among the German romanticists was Novalis, of whose writings Carlyle gave a sympathetic account in the Foreign Review for 1829.

  • Besides reproducing the tone of this voice, these are the musical consonants par excellence.

  • Many phenomena will arise and be subordinate to this movement; but it is vehemence par excellence; it is aspiration.

  • The harmonic law of gesture is the static law par excellence.

  • La Belle Stuart was one par excellence; in her the hypocrisy of prudery was double-distilled.

  • Such an epoch in English history is par excellence the Restoration.

  • The Garnetts' relation par excellence was Aunt Maria--Lady Maria as they erroneously called her, being unsophisticated in the niceties of the peerage.

  • Among the crowd of relations near and far most families possess one relation par excellence, who stands out from all the rest by reason either of generosity, aggravatingness, or strength of character.

  • Oil has always been in the East the medicine par excellence.

  • This imposition of hands, already so familiar to Jesus, was the sacramental act par excellence.

  • While Christmas Eve is the night par excellence of the supernatural, the whole season of the Twelve Days is charged with it.

  • The country par excellence of the Feast of the Fools was France.

  • Of "Les Trois Mousquetaires" alone, the scheme of adventure and incident is as orderly and sagacious as though it had been laid down by the wily cardinal himself; and therein is Dumas' success as the romancist par excellence of his time.

  • He was king of the stage, prince of feuilletonists, the literary man par excellence, in that Paris then so full of intellect.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "par excellence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    human remains; par les; parallel columns; parched corn; parish priest; parliament should; parliamentary proceedings; part chorus; part only; partial eclipse; particular case; particular church; particular form; particular friends; particular object; particular person; particular time; particularly important; particularly those; particularly when; parting from; partly because; partly from; partly statutes; party organization; thou refuse