Sentence examples for a real virtue from inspiring English sources

Participating in the local economies that keep these farms alive is a real virtue, not an imaginary one.

However, if you know where to look, it is also possible to find people with a profoundly sophisticated take on theatre – who make a real virtue of not being bound by any of the conventions or word limits of mainstream journalism.

ETFs accommodate defensive thinking, which I hold in high regard, as a real virtue.

Our purpose here is not to argue over who counts as a "real" virtue ethicist; such endeavors promise rather meager returns.

But its presentation of unspoiled beauty, its encounter with the divine, is a real virtue -- a national treasure -- despite everything else.

Its only real virtue appears to be a rhetorical one: to lump together a number of different elements of spending that have no necessary association, cutting some benefits when others rise.

Politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

In Burr's recounting (Vidal's Burr, I mean), George Washington was a big-assed semi-literate humorless oaf whose only real virtue was that he looked good on a horse.

Commentators have also focused on the fact that information is lost when a review is made in private, but perhaps the real virtue of public scrutiny is that it exposes the companies that have not done a thorough job.

Reviewing the London run in November 2010, the Guardian's Michael Billington wrote: "Its only real virtue is that it gives Tracie Bennett a chance to offer an impressively plausible portrait of the doomed star both on and off stage".

I'm a pretty high-tech cat, if I say so myself -- but virtual reality doesn't lead to real virtue, and Second Life doesn't beat Get a Life.