Word to the Wise: Nonesuch

A "nonesuch" (NUN-such) is a model of perfection or excellence.

Example (as used by James Kaplan in a New York Times review of Beginner’s Greek by James Collins): "This is a deeply strange book. In fact, it is, to the best of my knowledge, a nonesuch: a 400-plus-page first novel… dedicated to the highly dubious proposition that such a thing as perfect romantic love is possible in these doomy, gloomy, over-psychologized, terminally ironic, post-humanist, post-post-modern times."

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