The company is a 'paragon of' modern manufacturing techniques.
He is a 'paragon of virtue'. [=he is a very virtuous person]
He's no moral 'paragon'.
(..) How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals, and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me No, nor woman neither, (..)2015 Hamlet