He was so perfectly the quintessential man of law that I couldn't look at him without smiling.
So they set up a Presidential dinner with Hilton, a quintessential "common man."
Gates, of course, is the quintessential man of the old world order, having spent his career warning us that the Russians were coming.
George is the quintessential "man about town" in South Beach.
He never did land one, but being the quintessential extra man, he got to look in all the best places.
Cornell called the album cover "the quintessential angry young man."
For four decades, until her death yesterday at 84, she was The Man in the quintessential man's town.
But in truth he was the quintessential man of his time - a roast-beef Englishman.
The quintessential self-made man, Segal left home at 16 to find his fortune.
A quintessential man of the theater, he was also known as a director, producer and author.