A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.

She was very reliable and very well organized. She was an excellent employee and did a great job.

He has proven to be an excellent and reliable teammate on a terrific Pistons team.

She has excellent range. She has made a couple of plays out there that are worthy of (TV) highlights.

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

If you don’t value excellence, you won’t achieve excellence.