Sentence examples for Very virtues from inspiring English sources

But in defending it, we must resist undermining the very virtues we are defending".

The church's leaders have also set themselves up to be dismissed as hypocrites, unable to uphold the very virtues they promulgate.

In it he raised the possibility that the material abundance that capitalism produces might destroy the very virtues that had made capitalism possible in the first place.

The novel embodies the very virtues it exalts, the same virtues that probably relegate it, like its titular hero, to its perpetual place in the shade.

Neither a woolly-jumpered vicar nor a wild-eyed evangelist, Terence Copley is an enthusiast for the very virtues of tolerance and reasoned discussion that Ofsted advocates.

It's as if the very virtues that are the writers' raison d'être are being challenged by the filmmakers, who thus incur the writers' wrath.

But that very virtue may be disproved.

Indeed, it is this very virtue of scientific methods that was so celebrated in the Enlightenment.

So yes, there may be tools that can go some way to addressing such problems by very virtue of their design, their affordances, their patterns of use.

When one takes away another's right to vote, he is taking dead aim at democracy and undermining the very virtue that makes us the envy of the world.

It's the kind of personal production that calls into question the very virtue of sincerity: I'd think better of its master-thinker and preëminent presence, Dinesh D'Souza (who co-wrote and directed it with John Sullivan), if the movie gave cause to believe that he was merely mouthing a prepared campaign line rather than expressing his actual viewpoints.