His army consisted of Indians, black freemen, Frenchmen thirsting to humiliate the British, and Tennessee farmers, who were sharpshooters nonpareil.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Rhodes was, and remains, a fixer nonpareil of all that appears unfixable.

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Walking trails cross the property, but my ambitions lay elsewhere: I wanted a strenuous adventure, so the helpful staff called in Ed Kanze, local guide nonpareil.

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Without ditching his arsenal of ironic inflections and his nonpareil ability to make knowingness hilarious as well as smarmy, Murray takes Phil all the way through a prolonged winter of discontent and into a pixillated serenity.

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The nonpareil of charming hypocrisy, though, would be the French police chief in Casablanca, Captain Renault - Claude Rains' fox with a heart of gold - who is forced by the Germans to close Rick's bar and casino, announcing: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"

BBC: Finding joy in the hypocrisy of others