How To Use Virtuous In A Sentence

Athlete behavior is meant to be exemplary and virtuous and sustain the rags to riches myths of successful sports stars from humble origins.
And so the virtuous circle should continue. Times, Sunday Times
The sacerdotal role of the Christian laity, whose spiritual sacrifice and virtuous life makes a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, is placed in complete opposition to the formal procedures of the Roman clergy.
Once we learnt about this virtuous cycle, we were hooked. Times, Sunday Times
In much of today's Western culture, virtuousness is primarily associated with exaggerated propriety, but in past centuries virtue was of immense importance as a pivotal principle of religious, ethical and political thought.

What offends me violently is when a character is represented as a Good and Upright and Virtuous Hero, when almost his every act betrays him as a villain of the most heinous kind. Death carries a camcorder
Those that submit and accord with you, treat them generously and virtuously . Those that oppose you, break with force.
Behind this kind of ethic stands the Aristotelian notion of entelechy: humans have a natural potential to develop rationality and through it acquire virtuous character. Guess Who Was At The Party?
The virtuous conduct of life which follows is a reward in itself. The Times Literary Supplement
The upwardly moral children of the bourgeoisie are obsequiously, uncompromisingly virtuous. Enough About Me. Now, About My Kids...
Only within a conjugal union could women be chaste and virtuous, and nurture a positive influence on children and men.
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. Sigmund Freud
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. Samuel Johnson
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. Thomas Jefferson
The road is strait and spacious and kept in excellent repair by the industrious inhabitants, and is generally bordered by tall and spreading trees as the magnolia, liquid amber, liriodendron, catalpa and live oak, and on the verges of the canals where the road was causewayed, stood the cyprus, lacianthus and magnolia, all planted by nature and left standing by the virtuous inhabitants, to shade the road and perfume the sultry air. Agricultural Resources of Georgia. Address Before the Cotton Planters Convention of Georgia at Macon, December 13, 1860
Many have thought that having certain emotions is an important part of what it is to be a virtuous moral agent.
He reeks in misdeeds, but is selected as the fit companion for the newly born as well as for the agedly virtuous. Idle Comments
Old habits persisted, nonetheless: the would-be virtuous made their ablutions and sloped off to Friday prayers.
I predict this evening to go the same, with virtuous relations sitting vigil, with no time for her groggy and confused, luckily I am fluent in groggy and confused. Groggy and confused
So if among virtuous actions political and military actions are distinguished by nobility and greatness, and these are unleisurely and aim at an end and are not desirable for their own sake, but the activity of reason, which is contemplative, seems both to be superior in serious worth and to aim at no end beyond itself, and to have its pleasure proper to itself (and this augments the activity), and the self-sufficiency, leisureliness, unweariedness The Nicomachean Ethics
I cleaned the flat, which left me feeling virtuous.
Instead of trying to make people more virtuous, what if virtuous food could be made to taste more decadent? Times, Sunday Times
Only the virtuous person has prudence, and the correct end is not perceived by anyone else. The Times Literary Supplement
She became the virtuous focus of masculine desire, the unmoved mover who stirred her subjects to acts of gallantry and heroism.
And, besides, it's such good fun to see how one virtuous man can so disconcert you captains of industry and arbiters of destiny. THEFT
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The most virtuous of mothers can be putty in the hands of the least virtuous of sons.
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. Mahatma Gandhi
Most early accounts of incubi involved nuns as victims, although there were also virtuous women and priests.
Even if tea were indeed the virtuous drink of an industrious sobriety, something other than rational health benefits must have been the spur, otherwise tobacco and opiates would have fallen into desuetude.
Reforming our cars, greening our energy, planting some trees, redesigning our cities, these are virtuous but piecemeal efforts.
Not umteen eld ago, fill had to pay large amounts to check movies online and had to be noesis with watching virtuous a soft leave of the flick. Spy Screw | Surveillance
Of course we begin by emulating the people we recognize as virtuous in our society; hence, unsurprisingly, virtues differ between cultures.
Because young men who read instead of gamble are known to be "steadier" than the gamblers, and because children who read on Sunday make less noise and general row than those who will play tag in the neighbors 'front-yards, there has grown up this notion, that to read is in itself one of the virtuous acts. How to Do It
Antiquity to angling is like social position to the gentleman:I would rather prove myself a gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors; and yet I grant, that where a noble and ancient descent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person. . . The ideal of the gentleman
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Our Hundred Days in Europe
The third unvirtuous action of the body is stealing, which means taking something that does not belong to us.
The most easily broken thing in the world is the man's wine glass, politician's promise, girls' dream, steel wire-like love, the virtuousof modern society and the holy heart.
These guidelines state that if physicians must be moral and virtuous, the associations representing them must exhibit the same qualities and be seen to be acting in an altruistic fashion.
Regretfully he kissed her forehead, extracted himself from her embrace and sent her on her way to a virtuous bed.
As petulance and lust belong to the young more than to the old, yet not to all young men, but to those who are not virtuous; so that senile folly, which is commonly called dotage, belongs to weak old men, and not to all. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
Jeff Hall: Yep, the thought of a bunch of rural small businesses going bust during a recession so that overfed urban lawyers can feel briefly virtuous sure makes me chuckle. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Clinics Under Siege
Consider whereabout thou art in Cebes's [25] table, or that old philosophical pinax [26] of the life of man: whether thou art yet in the road of uncertainties; whether thou hast yet entred the narrow gate, got up the hill and asperous way, which leadeth unto the house of sanity; or taken that purifying potion from the hand of sincere erudition, which may send thee clear and pure away unto a virtuous and happy life. Christian Morals
Many Web sites and mobile applications now help commuters, shoppers, and tourists in cities all over the world be virtuously selfish and take advantage of their transit options.
Vice, including the deviancy of art, was the prerogative of the elderly, wily north, and in White's novels it ravages a southern society that is only virtuous because it lacks imagination.
We go on virtuously lugging our recycling bags to the waste bins. Times, Sunday Times
Louis was shown as an intelligent, courageous and virtuous family man.
The most easily broken thing in the world is the man's wine glass, politician's promise, girls' dream, steel wire-like love, the virtuousof modern society and the holy heart.
It is virtuous and honorable to be honest, but honesty does not always pay. Honesty is not a good policy in circumstances where being honest is disadvantageous or harmful. Dr T.P.Chia
Did I not martyrize myself into a human mule by descending to the bottom of a dreadful pit (suffering mortal terror all the time, lest it should cave in upon me), actuated by a virtuous desire to see with my own two eyes the process of underground mining, thus enabling myself to be stupidly correct in all my statements thereupon? The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Schadenfreude is an unvirtuous emotion of which we should be ashamed.
(Laughter) Well, why should a man not get younger when he administers justice among so crimeless. and so virtuous a population as Toronto? The British League of Nations
This is, I believe, on the whole true, but it is also true that there are grave diseases which attach themselves peculiarly to the unselfish side of our nature, and they are peculiarly dangerous because men, feeling that the unselfish is the virtuous and nobler side of their being, are apt to suffer these tendencies to operate without supervision or control. The Map of Life Conduct and Character
To be virtuous is to do good.
The seductive illusion of virtuous circle was transposed to the ugly reality of vicious financial death spiral.
Luke's innocence and virtuousness are emphasized in comparison to Hans' rugged masculine physical appearance, his morally ambiguous occupation and mercenary ideologies.
_Monosyllables_ are generally compared by adding _er_ and _est; dissyllables, trisyllables_, &c. by _more_ and _most_; as, mild, milder, mildest; frugal, more frugal, most frugal; virtuous, more virtuous, most virtuous. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
The "virtuous" woman is part of a male culture too. The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
A hot apple sauce or fruit compote makes a more virtuous topping. Times, Sunday Times
Oh, well, as long as it's been an obligement to you, I don't so much care," said the virtuous Cripps. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story
An hour later I was back, blowing hard and running with sweat, but feeling virtuous and much more relaxed.
The dopiness of so-called ecotainment—environmentally virtuous entertainment—rises in direct proportion to its message-mongering. Scott Brown on the Looming Deluge of Eco-Disaster Flicks
Consider whereabouts thou art in Cebe's [III. 14] table, or that old philosophical pinax [III. 15] of the life of man; whether thou art still in the road of uncertainties; whether thou hast yet entered the narrow gate, got up the hill and asperous way which leadeth unto the house of sanity; or taken that purifying potion from the hand of sincere erudition, which may send thee clear and pure away unto a virtuous and happy life. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
Enough already with this wilful self-destruction by our supposedly virtuous childhood icons. The Sun
It is also superior to the whole grain buckle I made, although that is not surprising as this is far more decadent and less virtuous! Archive 2008-07-01
In the same vein, “Cassandra” warned of “an aristocratical junto” that was “straining every nerve to frustrate our virtuous endeavors and to make the common and middle class of people their beasts of burden.” Robert Morris
The "virtuous" woman is part of a male culture too. The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
I'm convinced he only does that charity work so that he can feel virtuous.
He told him, at the vanities and the fopperies of the time, to see men so empty of all virtuous actions, to hunt so far after gold, having no end of ambition; to take such infinite pains for a little glory, and to be favoured of men; to make such deep mines into the earth for gold, and many times to find nothing, with loss of their lives and fortunes. Anatomy of Melancholy
The virtuous person participated in virtuous actions within the social fabric.
If financial gain and civic betterment are mutually exclusive, the shrinking capital worth of a diminished investment must be gloriously virtuous indeed.
Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses.
You cannot live a good life, a virtuous life, by avoiding or ignoring the world of vice, sin and sleaze.
And so the virtuous circle should continue. Times, Sunday Times
The most easily broken thing in the world is the man's wine glass, politician's promise, girls' dream, steel wire-like love, the virtuousof modern society and the holy heart.
The motive to the moral is not love, but knowledge; to instruct is to make better; the philosopher is also the virtuous man, and only the philosopher can practice true virtue; the ignorant man is also immoral. Christian Ethics. Volume I.��History of Ethics.
Only the virtuous person has prudence, and the correct end is not perceived by anyone else. The Times Literary Supplement
Criminals are generally athletic; constitution and conscience equally tough; large backs to their heads; strong suspensorial muscles; digestions that save them from the over-fine nerves of the virtuous. What Will He Do with It? — Complete
The virtuous conduct of life which follows is a reward in itself. The Times Literary Supplement
The most easily broken thing in the world is the man's wine glass, politician's promise, girls' dream, steel wire-like love, the virtuousof modern society and the holy heart.
In one of a series of neoclassical translations of the Apollo myth, Finlay dramatises the story of Apollo chasing Daphne as the Virtuous Republic being chased by an over-ardent suitor in the guise of the young Saint-Just.
We can feel generous and virtuous while blithely ignoring 99 per cent of the world. Times, Sunday Times
They're impure, contaminating a virtuous America with their sinful behavior.
There is thus a mixture of the comic and the tragic, the virtuous and the villainous, the young and the old, the male and the female.
In particular, "Chocolate Wars" follows the history of the British Cadbury chocolate company, owned by a couple of extraordinarily decent and virtuous Quaker brothers, George and Richard Cadbury, who disdained the callous and ruthless business practices of many of their Victorian rivals, put the welfare of their workers first and developed a series of marvelous chocolate products as well. Deborah Cadbury's "The Chocolate Wars," reviewed by Carolyn See
The movements condemned goods of foreign provenance, in part by defining them as unnecessary, unpatriotic, and unvirtuous luxuries.
Arthurian quests in the name of chivalry, knight-errants fighting for the love and honor of a virtuous woman lose out in these Arthurian storylines to Arthur's subduing of countless lands.
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.
Such is my reward for a virtuous life! Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
These are great, clumping, virtuous blocks of stiff leather with bulbous reinforced toecaps, designed never to wear out.
I am allowed to natter on about theory because I have been virtuous: eaten, napped, and prologued. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
Both serials harked back to a period when men were heroic, women were virtuous and times were better.
The Midrashim, however, go to great lengths to describe Serach as someone who was given extreme longevity for having done a single virtuous deed as a child.
Deal with them now and not only will you feel extremely virtuous, but you'll avoid what could become troublesome situations. Times, Sunday Times
He presented himself as an honest and virtuous man, a spokesman for the outsiders in society.
Honesty is the sum of sincerity, reasonableness, truthfulness, and fairness – honesty is the virtuous strength that overcomes deceit, deception and lying. Dr T.P.Chia
But because human minds and societies can improve things over time, and compound that improvement in virtuous circles, the future in this dimension is a gain. Boing Boing
Anyway, this friend was asking me what had set me on the road to financial virtuousness (!) because, she confessed, she was rather hopeless with money herself and didn't know how to stop running up her credit card.
The law, while it assumes the guardianship of youth by suppressing immorality, still permits these wantons to rove, uncontrolled, among the virtuous as well as the profligate.
If that ruler is truly virtuous, wise and far-seeing, then that nation is truly a happy land.
Something I can speak out of experience, aerumnabilis experientia me docuit; and with her in the poet, [66] Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco; I would help others out of a fellow-feeling; and, as that virtuous lady did of old, Anatomy of Melancholy
It's hypocritical in the sense that these people all lie yet proclaim themselves virtuous and honest, yes.
The hope now must be that the rally becomes self-perpetuating, creating a virtuous circle that revives confidence in the real economy. This Optimism Could Prove Contagious
A virtuous cycle of effort and ability. Times, Sunday Times
From the recycled packaging that wasn't actually necessary in the first place to the oil companies who boast of how environmentally responsible they are, the virtuous rhetoric of the eco-warrior is everywhere.
At the worst, that is, if she found I was not disposed to be as virtuous as herself, she knew she might play an aftergame; and could easily relax by degrees from the severity of her chastity, accordingly as I made it worth her while. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
To be virtuous is to do good.
I somehow still feel strangely unvirtuous.
Humanist scholars took great pains to study the texts of the ancient world, not just to "harvest" the virtuous life of classical man, but to learn classical Greek and Latin.
The real origin appears to be this: it was a part of the religious belief of the Egyptians that, as a reward of a well-spent and virtuous life, their bodies after death should exist and remain undecayed forever in their tombs, for we find in the "Book of the Dead" the following inscription placed over the spirits who have found favor in the eyes of the Great God: "The bodies which they have forsaken shall _sleep forever_ in their sepulchres, while they rejoice in the presence of God most high. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
And this woman, ever engaged in virtuous acts and the Agnihotra, and the austerest of penances, obtained The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
If thou speakest improper things in the hearing of this virtuous young virgin, consider it as an outrage against a distressed person that cannot get from thee: To speak indiscreetly what we are obliged to hear, by being hasped up with thee in this public vehicle, is in some degree assaulting on the high road. ' The Coverley Papers
The North might have chosen the path of virtuous isolationism, letting the South secede and becoming an egalitarian social democracy.
We moralize the issue of weight and so the really virtuous person is the one who struggles to maintain a lower weight through sacrifice.
Yesterday's announcement suggests that the vicious cycle has turned into a virtuous circle. Times, Sunday Times
The moral hypocrite, by contrast, has convinced himself that he is acting virtuously even when he does something he would condemn in others.
In their eyes the past was good or bad for itself, and the present good or bad for itself, and an evil past could no more shadow a virtuous present than a virtuous present could retroact to brighten or redeem an ugly past. Miss Ludington's Sister
The most easily broken thing in the world is the man's wine glass, politician's promise, girls' dream, steel wire-like love, the virtuousof modern society and the holy heart.
She lived an entirely virtuous life.
Those who memorize the Quran -- a task Muslims regard as a noble, virtuous endeavor looked upon highly by God -- receive the title "hafiz. At 27, New Imam Represents A Homegrown American Islam
The classical moral categories of action are ethical vs. unethical, just vs. unjust and virtuous vs. unvirtuous.
Instead of the elegant simplicity which once characterized this sweet secluded retreat, an air of voluptuousness reigned in every quarter: the paintings, the artfully concealed recesses in which the sofas were placed, the mirrors — all, in short, evinced a taste repugnant to the nicer feelings of true female delicacy — all breathed a fascinating influence, rather calculated to derange the virtuous sensations of the heart, rather than to render them more permanent. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
Power is not inherently virtuous (and power is not inherently corruptive, either).
Often have we occasion to behold great and afflicting re* verses in the external circumstances of opulent families, and miserable are they who have not been taught with virtuous equanimity to bear them, or who liave no re - sources in their own faculties, bodily, or mental, to apply them to other means of subsistence. The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the ...
The most easily broken thing in the world is the man's wine glass, politician's promise, girls' dream, steel wire-like love, the virtuousof modern society and the holy heart.
Bring back the virtuous knight in his armor, astride a noble steed. MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
Callers try to top each other in the virtuousness of their hysteria, and the violence of their solutions.
In any particular situation, the virtuous person acts in such a way that he instantiates all of the relevant virtues.
Jefferson, the "great diffusor" saw strength in the basic, the lowest common denominator, the virtuous farmer-citizen. Paul Schwennesen: Too Big Has Failed... Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party Are Similar
It looks like a virtuous circle where the more heavy equipment they can take the more they can make gains. Times, Sunday Times
Lanser writes of "the fine line of external appearance that separates the gender-bending sapphist from the virtuous friend," I wonder about two things. 'That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'
Madame des Grassins was one of those lively, plump little women, with pink-and-white skins, who, thanks to the claustral calm of the provinces and the habits of a virtuous life, keep their youth until they are past forty. Eug�nie Grandet
Its elegance lured virtuous men and women to mingle ‘promiscuously’ with the gamblers, prostitutes, and adulterers who still inhabited the night.
Yesterday 's announcement suggests that the vicious cycle has turned into a virtuous circle. Times, Sunday Times
The most easily broken thing in the world is the man's wine glass, politician's promise, girls' dream, steel wire-like love, the virtuousof modern society and the holy heart.
Not because those foods were virtuous or funny or brought out our inner caveman, but because they were delicious and told the story of their place. Times, Sunday Times
Their rapid increase is attributable not to any incestuous breeding in-and-in among themselves, but to a violent seduction of the President and the Heads of Department by importunate Congressmen; and you may rest assured that this criminal multiplication fills nobody with half so much righteous indignation and virtuous sorrow as the clerks themselves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
The women's critique broke down views of virtue and vice that associated smoke with virtuous masculine industriousness and clean air with vicious feminized luxury.
Don't feel virtuous if you wash the dishes by hand. Times, Sunday Times
She broke into a relieved smile to discover I was a virtuous widow and not a disreputable single mother, as I was, and passed the news around, so that the rest of the vacation allowed me to "mourn" while basking in benevolent glances. Travel solo, never alone
The situation therefore required me to appear blandly virtuous and unobjectionable at all times. Times, Sunday Times
Yet there is a certain justice in the inference that women are often most severely condemned by those who are no better than themselves; and this insincerity of uncharity is far more to be dreaded than the over-zeal of virtuous hearts, which oftenest helps and heals where it has been obliged to wound. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here.
Consider whereabouts thou art in Cebe’s14 table, or that old philosophical pinax15 of the life of man; whether thou art still in the road of uncertainties; whether thou hast yet entered the narrow gate, got up the hill and asperous way which leadeth unto the house of sanity; or taken that purifying potion from the hand of sincere erudition, which may send thee clear and pure away unto a virtuous and happy life. Letter to a Friend
He sent his agents, emissaries to her with fabulous temptations but the virtuous 1ady rebuffed them, one and all.
Being virtuous means knowing the right time, place, circumstance, and manner in which to be courageous.
Should applications of technology be socially virtuous by any standard?
Why then do we continue to mount these plays, so often and with such virtuous resolve?
If indeed this be their destination, arguments may be drawn from reason: and thus augustly supported, the more understanding women acquire, the more they will be attached to their duty — comprehending it — for unless they comprehend it, unless their morals be fixed on the same immutable principle as those of man, no authority can make them discharge it in a virtuous manner. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Deal with them now and not only will you feel extremely virtuous, but you'll avoid what could become troublesome situations. Times, Sunday Times
Tom Jones probably prompted Richardson to offer the virtuous hero, Grandison, as a response to Fielding's scapegrace.
English imperial georgics describe imperial expansion in such a way that virtuous, civilizing labor is rendered infinitely progressive.
The production of natural and organic foods is a virtuous cycle: You have to start off with clean land to grow grain for your clean breakfast cereal, or to feed to your clean chickens.
A virtuous circle of success and a narrative of managerial brilliance is constructed. Times, Sunday Times
The figure of the cowboy became the West's protagonist, a self-reliant individualist with a virtuous sense of fair play.
Let my Views concenter, and terminate in one focus, in one Point, a great, useful, lawyer virtuous Lawyer. John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759
Religions and true religious leaders have always motivated us to indulge only in noble thoughts and virtuous actions.
The price of a virtuous woman, says Proverbs, is more than that of rubies.
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. Mahatma Gandhi
While it may not be easy to be a virtuous woman, my mother decided to just take it one verse at a time. Christianity Today
The two sisters, with the most virtuous emulation, vied with each other in demonstrative affection, till he was tolerably consoled. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
This New Year more than any other, magazines and minds have been chock-a-block with virtuous resolutions concerning abstention, inch - loss and sweat.
Exercise creates its own virtuous circle. Once you start a programme and do it regularly, you'll feel so good you'll want to continue.
No; she had not the slightest idea; it was not her business to "pry" and Mrs. Wick closed her bloodless lips with virtuous severity. Will Warburton
It is very strange to see that in some way the virtuous women feel themselves offended. The Catalans
Once we learnt about this virtuous cycle, we were hooked. Times, Sunday Times
The most easily broken thing in the world is the man's wine glass, politician's promise, girls' dream, steel wire-like love, the virtuousof modern society and the holy heart.
I'm convinced he only does that charity work so that he can feel virtuous.
Honesty is the sum of sincerity, reasonableness, truthfulness, and fairness – honesty is the virtuous strength that overcomes deceit, deception and lying. Dr T.P.Chia
IN bivious theorems, [138] and Janus-faced doctrines, let virtuous considerations state the determination. Christian Morals
Granted, there are virtuous people who imagine an honour is something worth receiving. Times, Sunday Times
During the 1950s the evil of communism was invariably defined by the virtuousness of its enemies.
He had come up to Grandcourt this term pledged to the hilt to work hard and live virtuously. The Master of the Shell
But this double role of normative discourse inevitably raises the idea of supererogation, the category of actions that are praiseworthy (either in creating good states of affairs or in reflecting a particularly virtuous trait of character) yet at the same time not obligatory. How to Kill a Missionary
This could result in an unvirtuous downward cycle.
Volsci and Samnites, they were, we are told, men disinterested and virtuous. A Philosophical Dictionary
By the end of the play, the very qualities he considers to be virtuous - sacrificial piety, constancy, and militarism - are those that lead to tragedy.
If the voters demand a clean election, the low-minded, unscrupulous candidates will be eliminated naturally through competition; the virtuous politicians will then get elected.
Huge virtuous say:"The idea is in the compound body of reasonableness and sensitive faculty that presents for an instant.
He is a virtuous, moral man with dignity and strength, not the mild-mannered pushover of decades past.
But here lived bankers and diplom ats and deputies and they shouldn't be disturbed in their virtuous homes. SKORPION'S DEATH
In the arena of sex, ‘virtuousness’ for women but ‘virtuosity’ for men have always been the desiderata.
It was used, by armies led by aristocrats against longbows, rifled muskets, and even by a King of Sparta, who, when shown the huge dart from then new catapult weapons exclaimed “woe to the virtuous, ... all valor is now vanquished, and cowards shall rule better men”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare, the CIA, and Charlie Savage’s NYT Article
In the form of a temporary dictatorship of the virtuous elite who would inaugurate regimes of democratic freedom AUTHORITY
Exercise creates its own virtuous circle. Once you start a programme and do it regularly, you'll feel so good you'll want to continue.
A virtuous cycle of effort and ability. Times, Sunday Times
His desire was to establish a code of laws that would automatically result in people behaving virtuously.
Yesterday's announcement suggests that the vicious cycle has turned into a virtuous circle. Times, Sunday Times
Not because those foods were virtuous or funny or brought out our inner caveman, but because they were delicious and told the story of their place. Times, Sunday Times
Honesty is the sum of sincerity, reasonableness, truthfulness, and fairness – honesty is the virtuous strength that overcomes deceit, deception and lying. Dr T.P.Chia
That is, the virtuous action is not necessarily decomposable into sincere and egoistic components, but has an aspect of self-training for further, larger and more sincere, virtuous actions. Conspicuous Reduction
Yep, the thought of a bunch of rural small businesses going bust during a recession so that overfed urban lawyers can feel briefly virtuous sure makes me chuckle. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Clinics Under Siege
Working hard makes you feel better about yourself and, after a prolonged period of hard slog, you feel sufficiently virtuous to enjoy a bout of self-indulgence with the gayest abandon.
Admit then, according to your own principles, that God cannot have what we call virtues, and that man cannot be virtuous with respect to him. Good Sense
It is the basis for a ‘virtuous circle’ by which a tenant who possessed draught animals was busy only one day per week, in exchange for the work that his plough team carried out on the arable lands of the estate.
How often is "the rose plucked from the forehead of a virtuous love to plant a blister there! 2009 May 26 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Whether they're funneling talent to start-up firms or the country's largest corporations, companies known for incubating tomorrow's CEOs maintain a virtuous circle composed of four equally crucial and interrelated steps.
On the level of theory, fusionism claimed that individualism was the necessary basis for any society that wished to provide the possibility of a virtuous life.
And at the last, after many words, there was a clerk which had been longing to S. Erkenwold, and saw this strife, and stood up and commanded silence, and told to the people a great commendation of the virtuous life of this holy saint, and said it was not honest, ne according, to misentreat the holy body by violent hands, but let us beseech Almighty The Golden Legend, vol. 7
Now, in his fantasy, he apparelled her like a man; and presently despoiling her of that habit, he gave her another of a nymph; which he took away also, to attire her with the ornaments and majesty of a queen; not leaving any raiment but he gave it unto her, either to make her wise or to make her a vaunting fool; and generally he imagined her to be grave, merry, discreet, subtle and virtuous, which parts are ill-befitting a fair comedian.

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