Sentence examples for a virtue which from inspiring English sources

Now the sharing of responsibilities is seen as a virtue, which represents quite a sea change.

However, what is necessary quickly becomes a virtue, which is why "quality", "enduring" and "slow" became buzzwords.

To quote Bunyard again, they "are in such demand when school breaks up [that] lateness is a virtue which can hardly be overrated.

St. Augustine summarized much of Christian thought about charity when he wrote: "Charity is a virtue which, when our affections are perfectly ordered, unites us to God, for by it we love him".

That's a virtue which has been sorely tested over recent years, and that trend looks like continuing.

This idea is closely linked to the view that trustworthiness is a virtue, which makes it intrinsically worthwhile (see The Nature of Trust and Trustworthiness).

(The author's relationship to his Frenchness was typically bifurcated: he liked to talk about his "essentially southern-French nature," but also called knowing French "a great virtue, which I do not possess").

For example, Wolf argues that there is a "nameless virtue" which consists in "taking responsibility for one's actions and their consequences" (2001, 13).

(i) One possible externalist solution is that being rational involves having certain desires; the internalist can argue in response that rationality is rather a procedural virtue which doesn't necessarily involve having any particular desires.

We tend to expect the preacher to be a model of virtue, which is a terribly unfair burden to put on a human.

Unlike courage, it is almost an invisible virtue, which is far more likely to be missed than noticed.