Sentence examples for a chief virtue from inspiring English sources

A chief virtue of that amendment lies in its refusal to condone the very abuses to civil liberty that the public might otherwise embrace in fretful days.

In the United States in the nineteenth century, the myth of Magna Carta as a single, stable, unchanged document contributed to the veneration of the Constitution as unalterable, despite the fact that Paine, among many other Founders, believed a chief virtue of a written constitution lay in the ability to amend it.

Indeed, the central paradox of Clark's campaign, which in recent months has neither gained nor lost much altitude, and remains fixed in a flight path well below Dean's, is that a candidate whose chief virtue was his credibility on national security issues has proved to be such a peacenik.

Society must alter, for prudent change is the means of social preservation; but a statesman must take Providence into his calculations, and a statesman's chief virtue, according to Plato and Burke, is prudence.

"In Mobile Age, Sound Quality Steps Back" (Business Day, May 10), about the degradation of sound quality in the MP3 era, touches on a central concern for musicians like me, who feel that a song's chief virtue should not be its ease of portability.

As in the case of John Major and Mr Hague, the Tories could end up with a leader whose chief virtue is who he is not, instead of who he is.

"Gossamer Gallants" (2011) is a feeble frolic; its chief virtue is how it makes the female of the species (insects) look sexier, stronger and funnier than the male.

Mooney's chief virtue as a writer is her ardor.

One of the virtues, perhaps almost the chief virtue, of a newspaper is its independence.

Preston Foster, who knows how to play a cop, gives an easy-going performance, which is the chief virtue of this otherwise mediocre melodrama.

But the program's chief virtue is that it makes a smart, serious effort in that direction.