The phrase "a set of virtues" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a collection or group of moral qualities or principles that are considered good or desirable.
Example: "In many cultures, honesty, kindness, and integrity are often regarded as a set of virtues that individuals should strive to embody."
Alternatives: "a collection of virtues" or "a group of virtues".
At the same time, their Indianness was extracted as a set of virtues: honor, stoicism, dignity, freedom.
It embodies a set of virtues—"learning and scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain"—which, he said, underpins Asia's economic success.
There is, he saw, a kind of nostalgia that posits a world that never existed and a set of virtues never put into practice — the kind that idealizes the heroic forties, or the roaring twenties, or the fabulous fifties — and a kind that finds a bottomless melancholy in the simple desolation of life by time.
Jason Kawall (2002a) calls attention to a set of virtues neglected by virtue epistemologists of all stripes.
However, the patriot's loyalty is not focused on her country simply because it instantiates a set of virtues a country can have.
Although Emerson is thus in no position to set forth a system of morality, he nevertheless delineates throughout his work a set of virtues and heroes, and a corresponding set of vices and villains.
What makes us deem this good rather than bad style is that they telegraph a set of contradictory virtues: femininity, seriousness, playfulness, idiosyncrasy, glamour, ease and a lack of vanity or seeming effort that is complemented by natural beauty.
He lived by a set of public virtues that brought strength and purpose to his life and to his country," the 43rd president said during a memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington.
The movie turns Spielberg, in the persona of Halliday, into the ultimate cool dad, converting Wade's heroism into a conjoined set of virtues centered on filial piety (piety toward a substitute father) and pop devotion.
In "Ready Player One," Parzival insults the villainous Sorrento with the ultimate Spielbergian credo: "A fanboy knows a hater". The movie turns Spielberg, in the persona of Halliday, into the ultimate cool dad, converting Wade's heroism into a conjoined set of virtues centered on filial piety (piety toward a substitute father) and pop devotion.
Scientists traditionally have aspired to an established set of virtues, she believes, including the duty "to serve and guard humanity, including its individual members"; accountability; excellence; respect; and altruism--which her article defines as a dedication to serving "the best interests of humanity and not self-interest, commercial interests, or the promotion of the interests of science".
