9 Metaphors for exponents

The most brilliant and unsafe exponent of this school was Ameghino, who possessed and abused two gifts, both essential to the highest type of scientist, and both mischievous unless this scientist possess a rare and accurate habit of thought joined to industry and mastery of detail:namely, the gift of clear and interesting writing, and the gift of generalization.

It was the revival of learning and the Universities, in particular that of Bologna, which inspired the dolce stil nuovo, of which the first exponent was Guido Giunicelli.

Still they bore the hall-mark of Rome, prototype of all our modern states, and their authorised exponents were the State rhetoricians.

Its most elaborate exponent in this period was Varro, and behind both Varro and Cicero there stands the great figure of the Rhodian Posidonius, of whose writings hardly anything has come down to us.

But perhaps the finest exponent of the art is a famous General, whose obiter dicta in verse are innumerable.

Even in civil hospitals the surgeons must have reached a degree of "Kultur" beside which its present exponents are mere children.

The boldest and most brilliant exponent of this tendency is Friedrich Nietzsche, already the object of a cult in Germany, and an author to be reckoned with as one of the new forces in European thought.

Its exponents were the brothers Achmet and Mustapha Köprili, who held the grand-vizierate in succession.

The latest exponent of this is the lady who prefers to be called only "The Author of An Odd Farmhouse."

9 Metaphors for  exponents