Sentence examples for Exemplar of virtue from inspiring English sources

Stowe made him an exemplar of virtue and dignity who is far superior in character to the white slaveholders portrayed.

Accordingly, Yamaga equated the samurai with the Confucian "superior man" and taught that his essential function was not only to keep himself fit for possible military service, but to justify the stipend his lord provided him with by becoming an exemplar of virtue for the lower classes.

Indian officials, justly proud of their overall system, had deemed the machines "infallible," with one going so far as to say that to subject them to rigorous testing would be like forcing the Hindu goddess Sita — exemplar of virtue and chastity — to submit to a virginity test.

Such concern becomes much more comprehensible if Confucius is being treated as an exemplar of virtue from which the students are trying to learn.

The author states that this approach is undertaken with the goal of examining Malory's treatment of his characters "as exemplars of virtue and vice, under the wider categories of kingship, knighthood, and womanhood" (p. xiii).

They are models of Christian discipleship, exemplars of virtue and of justice and of charity, they are those we believe are now able to see God face to face and to intercede for us.

Verdi reconfigures Posa as the exemplar of friendship, virtue and selfless tolerance.

In my opinion, it's not because he has bad ideas, but because his campaign strategy is to portray himself as an exemplar of moral virtue and Clinton as evil incarnate.

The search began with a passionate fling between the austerians and the Republic of Ireland, which turned to harsh spending cuts soon after its real estate bubble burst, and which for a while was held up as the ultimate exemplar of economic virtue.

All we need is an outstanding exemplar of the virtue.

If you want transparency, fairness and conscientiousness from your opponent, you have to become an exemplar of those virtues yourself.