Sentence examples for a virtuous act from inspiring English sources

Scientists call that feeling "elevation," and studies show that people experience elevation when they witness a virtuous act, especially one that helps others.

Mainstream Muslim clerics, citing competing verses and traditions that praise the freeing of slaves as a virtuous act, often describe Islam's abandonment of slavery as a sign of its adaptability to modern times.

EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF 'GOOD VIBRATIONS' -- The show that may well be remembered (and hailed) for hastening the death of the jukebox musical, a virtuous act of euthanasia if ever there was one.

Second, there is the idea that whenever a virtuous person chooses to perform a virtuous act, he can be described as aiming at an act that is in some way or other intermediate between alternatives that he rejects.

This claim, though at first sight Hobbesian, is however not at all of a Hobbesian stripe, for Campbell holds that the self-love that motivates us to perform a virtuous act takes the form of a desire for esteem, where the desired esteem derives from our gratification of another person's self-love.

The Muslim who blows himself up in a market square is guided by a theology that makes suicide bombing a virtuous act.

On pain of infinite regress, therefore, extrinsically virtuous acts of will must ultimately lead back to an intrinsically virtuous act of will.

What seems like an easy, virtuous act actually has lasting impact beyond the piles of polyester at your local secondhand store.

The culture of filmmaking -- its view of storytelling as an inherently valuable, even virtuous act -- shut out the most shameless propagandists and provocateurs.

However, Roger Crisp argues that this view is based on a misreading of Aristotle, for whom both doing the virtuous act (fitting the circumstances) and being a virtuous person are obligatory.

That intrinsically virtuous act of will, for Ockham, is an act of "loving God above all else and for his own sake".