Sentence examples for Compensating virtues from inspiring English sources
He had clearly gone to some trouble to invest the character with compensating virtues – kindness, optimism, patience – and everybody was just focusing on his deficiencies.
This is because these are characteristics that among students at the same institution are likely to vary more than test scores do, and because, if the admissions officers have done their job well, they have identified the "compensating virtues" among applicants with below-average scores, as Princeton apparently did in the case of Sonia Sotomayor.
Though some things get lost in translation, there are compensating virtues: The dialogue is filled with nifty literary references, a clever nod to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is great fun, and the emotional roller coaster rings true.
The book has one great, compensating virtue.
As for "compensating visionary virtues" (those virtuous visionaries, always "compensating!"), enough said.
("I also thought of Wallace Stevens' distinction... .., "I thought of Keats writing..".) In the spirit of these harkenings, she seeks to lump Blake, Shelley and Yeats together as "enduring political poets" though she pauses to acknowledge, grandly, that these poets have "compensating visionary virtues".
("I also thought of Wallace Stevens' distinction... .., "I thought of Keats writing..".) In the spirit of these harkenings, she seeks to lump Blake, Shelley and Yeats together as "enduring political poets" though she pauses to acknowledge, grandly, that these poets have "compensating visionary virtues". Whew, thanks -- "Horseman, pass by"!
Compensating with accessories".
Her tenacious detective work into family history, her crisp and lively summation of the science, are virtues that compensate – just about – for a folksy, intrusive, condescending tone.
