Sentence examples for a virtuous one from inspiring English sources

How do you live the good life — meaning a virtuous one, not a luxuriously appointed one — in a world that often rewards the self-seeking, the venal and the cutthroat while punishing the moral but powerless?

Sometimes cease-fires can create a vicious cycle instead of a virtuous one.

The forcing functions are a specific part of mistake-proofing: they prevent a wrong action or they force a virtuous one.

That message is, admittedly, a virtuous one, because water, the exhibition points out, is not a renewable resource.

The circle is also vicious – if we wish to turn it into a virtuous one, consumers also need to take a hard look at their own individual responsibilities.

But I was starting to suspect that driving a sports car — even a virtuous one — is like wearing a vintage Tom Seaver jersey.

Rather, I'm protesting the fallacy that to be virtuous, one must be on TV, one must be off to a meeting on how to be a better person, or one must have just come from a meeting on how to be a better person, but one can pass up every opportunity to actually be a better person.

They ended up in a vicious cycle as opposed to virtuous one.

Miss Aylward learned the dialects, eventually became a naturalized Chinese citizen and earned the sobriquet, "The Virtuous One". Her mentor, Mrs. Lawson, died within a year of her arrival but Miss Aylward persevered as a missionary de spite the fact that she had dropped out of the missionary training course of the Protes tant nondenominational China Inland Mission in England.

According to the virtue tradition, in order to perform a virtuous action, one must have the right dictates associated with the relevant virtue.

And third, you need to do so from what he calls a "firm and unchanging state". So the first condition is that you be in a situation where you know what act is the virtuous one.