Sentence examples similar to almost virtue from inspiring English sources

But in our talk-barraged world, their meditative pace and deadpan taciturnity have become almost virtues.

Reticence, meanwhile, has become an almost obsolete virtue.

Marshall is self-made, an almost extinct virtue in Hollywood today.

There is almost no virtue more celebrated in America right now than simplicity.

As the years passed, it seemed to take on the quality of a huge piece of minimalist sculpture, and its dullness was almost a virtue.

Those who questioned Eggers' portrayal of Abdulrahman Zeitoun as a hero of almost Biblical virtue can claim some vindication; he has since been convicted for assaulting his wife, and faces charges of conspiracy to murder her and two others.

Listening to Mr. Arrau's wonderful deftness in the last movement of "Les Adieux" - where delicacy and high spirits made frailty almost a virtue -one longed to hear the little F sharp Sonata, the E flat from Opus 27, the "Pastorale". How splendidly Mr. Arrau would have played them with his present set of talents and how invigorating they would have been.

And almost by virtue of population growth and demographics and all those things, some of these factors just can't mathematically continue at the pace that we have seen, you know, at a 9 million pace of auto sales.

Busyness has become almost a virtue in our culture.

Detroit youth, almost by virtue of the name, are set up for these stereotypes by the media and society at large.

Almost by virtue of the kind of film this is and the rote structure it's locked into, it's probably a mistake to ride in expecting anything staggeringly revolutionary.