exemplum in a sentence

Examples

1. Many scholars think of the seafarer's narration of his experiences as an exemplum, used to make a moral point and to persuade his hearers of the truth of his words.
2. In 1982, the SSO played Isang Yun's orchestral work " Exemplum, in memoriam Kwangju " for the first time in North Korea, in the presence of the composer.
3. This introductory stanza is followed by a mythological exemplum to demonstrate this idea  that of Helen of Troy, who abandoned her husband, daughter, and parents to be with the man she loved.
4. This use of Helen as a mythological exemplum might be seen as problematic : after all, Helen is the most beautiful mortal, and yet Sappho has her judging Paris to be the most beautiful.
5. Thus the " happiness " of Croesus is presented as a moralistic " exemplum " of the fickleness of Tyche, a theme that gathered strength from the fourth century, revealing its late date.
6. There are explicit references to antiquity : the figure of Christ derives from the celebrated Laocoon, an antique statue discovered in Rome in 1506, an archetypal exemplum doloris ( " example of pain " ).
7. It has also been argued that the poem was based on the form of medieval morality tale known as " exemplum ", or that it was intended as a parody of the chivalric romance.
8. Here, he addressed his troops and used the tribunes as living proof to legitimise his actions, calling the SCU a " new example " ( " novum exemplum " ) not in accordance with Roman Law.
9. The third, and by far the longest, exemplum ( ll . 1149 1796 ) recounts the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar and the transfer of the Temple treasures to Babylon where they were treated with reverence by the king.
10. In a second exemplum the poet retells the stories of Abraham and Lot ( Gen . 18 : 1 19, 28 ) ( ll . 600-1048 ), including a description of the Dead Sea as the poet understood it.