Sentence examples for Higher virtue from inspiring English sources

Discrimination was a higher virtue than effusiveness.

Debt is bad, prudence a higher virtue than profit.

However, Stanton believed there was an even higher virtue for women to develop; namely, self-development.

And redemption most times comes to each of us through circumstances of life, not really through any higher virtue.

For a people that lives by self-government, care for the spirit of the laws is a higher virtue than neighborliness.

Suddenly the military is a bastion of the higher virtues -- selflessness, duty and honor.

For some, no doubt, that is the meaning of our time, but this is a novel that signals higher virtues, without evincing them.

But the best way to defy the terrorists is to celebrate the higher virtues of our plural, multicultural, society that is welcoming of all faiths and none.

It's currently being roundly felt up by randy critics wearing the filmic equivalent of beer-goggles, but fools crying "Oscar!" don't detract from what is a very nifty comedy-thriller embodying the higher virtues of 1970s cinema.

The message that perspiration is a gateway to, and reflection of, higher virtues is captured in health club slogans like ones used by the Equinox chain over recent years: "Results aren't always measured in pounds and inches".

Fans everywhere should treasure such a brazen commitment to the higher virtues of the game, and reflect with a smile that it comes from such an extraordinary servant of the game.