What's the difference between emblematic and exemplary?

Emblematic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Emblematical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
  • (2) Yahoo is to bring a number of "emblematic" TV shows to its online audience, as it looks to increase its original content and mirror the success Netflix has achieved with its streaming of House of Cards.
  • (3) These mixed messages are emblematic of a wider dilemma Cameron faces: to retoxify or detoxify?
  • (4) Comet, the electricals retailer that has collapsed into administration, is the latest high street casualty, emblematic of thousands of shuttered shops up and down the land.
  • (5) Fair pay, not benefits or subsidies to miserly employers, brought Labour into being – so why is the party in danger of letting this strong emblematic policy slip away?
  • (6) Professor Larry Birnbaum , joint head of the Intelligent Information Laboratory, is an emblematic figure in this new, horizontal discipline, for he also teaches at the nearby Medill School of Journalism.
  • (7) Early in his career O'Toole became emblematic of a new breed of hard-drinking Hollywood hellraiser.
  • (8) In certain telling ways the response of the nation’s leaders to the recent market crash is emblematic of a much larger dilemma – one that sits right at the heart of China’s uneasy fusion of communism and free-market economics, a system with little precedent and no operating manual.
  • (9) Yun’s quest – a modern version of the age old dream of tapping the fountain of youth – is emblematic of the current enthusiasm to disrupt death sweeping Silicon Valley.
  • (10) Loach has said his characters’ dismal experiences with the social security system are emblematic of a wider austerity-led policy of “conscious cruelty” towards the poor.
  • (11) "Sarkozy really does give the impression of being in several places at the same time, politically and physically, and we wanted to have fun with this idea and capture some of the emblematic scenes of his time in office," Fioretto told the Guardian.
  • (12) He designed the luxury One Hyde Park apartments in Knightsbridge that have become emblematic of the foreign investment phenomenon.
  • (13) The emblematic 80s action film about US Navy pilots was the biggest box-office hit of 1986, and has gone on to gross more than $356m (£214m) worldwide.
  • (14) It's about finding people who can become emblematic representatives [for their genre]," she added.
  • (15) Is Cape Town more divided that the rest of the country, or emblematic of wider problems?
  • (16) His case is emblematic of the hardline stance China has taken towards ethnic minorities who do not toe the Communist party line.
  • (17) The binge of infrastructure spending that has accompanied the World Cup has become emblematic of all the most problematic elements of Brazil's political economy – corruption, kickbacks and conflicts of interest.
  • (18) What seemed to me to be clearly anti-Jewish discrimination has never been regarded that way in France; it was always accepted by Jews as an integral part of the Republican model, echoing back to the emblematic Napoleonic contract that gave them citizenship.
  • (19) If Hollywood needed an emblematic heroine for a year of hard times and tough decisions, it came in the form of Jennifer Lawrence: resolute, unyielding and somehow old beyond her age.
  • (20) Wandle’s story is emblematic of the success of the FDAC in central London, which was launched in 2008 as a way of dealing with civil care proceedings involving parents who misuse substances, causing harm to their children.

Exemplary


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.
  • (a.) Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
  • (a.) Illustrating as the proof of a thing.
  • (n.) An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
  • (2) Three million of us are behind our team!” trumpets La Republica, who hail “the national team's exemplary behaviour so far, both individually and collectively.” Naturally they were saying exactly the same thing after the defeat to Costa Rica.
  • (3) He could execute in an exemplary fashion pieces of music for the organ in his repertory as well as improvise.
  • (4) The second cause for alarm is more real – the insistence on imposing exemplary, or punitive, damages on those who don't join the regulator (and, in some circumstances, even those who do).
  • (5) But Miller, in continuing to urge publishers to be "recognised" by the charter did refer to the "incentives", meaning a protection from the payment of legal costs for libel claimants (even if unsuccessful) and the imposition of exemplary damages (which would be very doubtful anyway).
  • (6) Lt General Stephen Speakes applauded Greene for a “sense of self, a sense of humility” and an exemplary work ethic, according to an account of the promotion ceremony published by the Times Union of Albany, New York, which called Greene an Albany native.
  • (7) On Friday, Hacked Off called for an urgent correction to one of the major sticking points for Fleet Street: the unintended vulnerability of the amateur blogger who, due to "bad government drafting", could have found themselves liable for exemplary damages.
  • (8) "[The CQC inspectors] saw some exemplary care, but some hospitals were not even getting the basics right.
  • (9) Her plan was angrily rejected by the food and drink industry, which claimed an exemplary code already existed that had been rigidly followed by the industry.
  • (10) These states were selected for the purpose of illustrating two different approaches and not necessarily for the presentation of exemplary evaluation practices.
  • (11) Unstable angina pectoris, a particular form of acute coronary heart disease is described in two exemplary cases.
  • (12) The intellectual elegance of her work – and its exemplary quality as an Anthropocene-aware artefact – lies in its subtle tracing of the technological and imperial histories involved in a single extinction event and its residue.
  • (13) Spotlight is more akin Argo , Ben Affleck’s big winner in 2013: it takes a conventional approach to telling a compelling true story, with assured direction and exemplary performances from its ensemble cast.
  • (14) No 10 insists Cameron was kept in close contact with the talks from his offices a quarter of a mile away in Downing Street, but it was not necessary for him to be personally present since the substantive talks had already occurred, and the purpose of the Letwin meeting was purely to tidy up aspects of exemplary damages.
  • (15) They won't put to rights the arbitration procedures that local editors fear; they'll continue to debate the rights and wrongs of exemplary damages till kingdom come.
  • (16) Sharon Allen, chief executive of Skills for Care, said the academy was doing “exemplary work” and that the award was “well-deserved”.
  • (17) This failure of supportive, exemplary democratic leadership is even more apparent in Washington, where the longer Barack Obama has remained in office, held hostage by a hostile Congress, the more myopic, seemingly, has become his global strategic vision.
  • (18) Petrolheads should have been a cast-iron hit – the logic behind it was exemplary: people love Have I Got News For You, people love Top Gear, Neil Morrissey is a beloved comic actor.
  • (19) At the Economist, we have always been supportive of the idea that anything that could be done to clean up Britain's libel laws[, should be done] … the idea of exemplary damages for people who are outside the system I find very difficult," he said.
  • (20) The investigators believe that collaboration, caring, and communication are the essence of exemplary health care.