Sentence examples for admirable virtues from inspiring English sources

These are admirable virtues.

It enables the unreflective affluent to sleep at night, their consciousness assuaged by its message that their success is explained by their own admirable virtues alone".

The archetypical tale upon which Jemima is based – the foolish and naive are rescued from destruction by the loyal and dependable – is transformed in Potter's hands to one in which self-preservation and shrewdness become admirable virtues.

Another trait Curtis seems to share with Blair is the admirable virtue of a thick skin.

They possess admirable craft virtues, in particular Ms. Fraioli whose interlocking wheel-thrown stoneware forms are intimately riveting.

In the case of pleasure, there are other reasons for thinking that it is not worthy of admiration, namely, that pleasant experiences are not admirable like virtue and intellectual activity and that one is not considered admirable in respect of feeling pleasure, though one is in respect of behaving virtuously and in respect of intellectual activity (FE 271).

But "Being Harold Pinter" (which is performed in Russian with supertitles) isn't just admirable, it has virtues beyond its relevance and bravery.

For all the car's many admirable and quantifiable virtues, it is frustrating and disappointing to find it let down by little faults that coalesce into a greater lament.

This is a Disney animated musical, after all, and for young viewers the film is appropriately fast, colorful and playful, with an anthropomorphic flying carpet, a just-scary-enough villain and an admirable message about the virtues of unselfishness -- Saturday at 8 p.m. on Channel 7. Robert De Niro pioneered the weight-gain school of acting in Martin Scorsese's fierce drama RAGING BULL (1980).

These women exhibit admirable character traits or virtues, such as love and loyalty to Christ: their hearts were "united and knit unto him in love", and they "could not depart as the men did, but sat watching and waiting, and weeping about the Sepulchre" (7).

Here is a film with its heart in the right place, an anatomical correctness coexisting with heartfelt, forthright conviction and an admirable belief in the virtue of simplicity and underplaying.