Sentence examples for A private vice from inspiring English sources

For another, it was not a private vice which brought it low, as the Bonwiller story would imply.

Some conservative groups oppose the bill because of the horse-racing exemption; libertarians object to government regulation of what they consider a private vice.

Today you can still find a few people in Georgetown with Oxbridge rowing oars on their walls, but in general Anglophilia is a private vice and post-nationalism is the public virtue.In boardrooms, globalisation is the fashionable creed.

Today, what passes for debate has occluded the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual stakes of aesthetic experience, which assumes the odor of a minor private vice.

But regulators and federal officials were lulled to sleep by a pervasive ideology that private vice on Wall Street would always be transmogrified into public virtue.

It was once called a city of "public probity and private vice" and this still rings true, though the "probity" tag has lost some lustre since the near-collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland, one of the city's biggest employers.

While Mr. Obama was reassuring Mr. Netanyahu in private, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. delivered a rousing declaration of American support for Israel to J Street, a moderate pro-Israel lobbying group that favors a two-state solution to the conflict.

In the wake of the scandals triggered by Mandeville's famous argument in The Fable of the Bees (a poem, it should be remembered) that the pursuit of private vice, namely greed, leads to public benefits, namely economic prosperity, a French debate about the value of luxury as a moral good erupted that drew Voltaire's pen.

This eloquent and witty book does much to rescue Victorian Britain from its traditional image as a place of stolid public rectitude coupled with private vice.

We are deliberately not allowed to make easy choices between public virtue and private vice.

She begins by jabbering a bit about untimely celebrity deaths, especially those whose lives are "shadowed by dark appetites or fractured by private vice".