par excellence

A “komitetchik par excellence,” a man of “outstanding mediocrity,” and “the grave digger of the revolution.”

Dostum is a warlord par excellence and a classic product of Afghan politics, which is both local and volatile.

He is the African revolutionary par excellence who continues to rage against imagined British “colonialism” every day.

New York novelist par excellence and wine critic, Jay McInerney, will entertain with a Gatsby-esque story.

Wall Street has long been a presumed base for Mitt Romney, the former financier-par-excellence.

As his system is the foe of all artificial methods, it is par excellence the “Natural” System.

It is therefore the doyen par excellence, and its rules and orders as carried out in its early days are original and entertaining.

The hair-dresser is there, an artist par excellence, a sovereign authority, at once nobody and everything.

And why did Chopin regard Mozart as the ideal type, the poet par excellence?

He is par excellence the painter of Intimitt (intimate life); which is not the same as a genre painter.