The "MMR causes autism" scare perpetrated by Andrew Wakefield, for example, had the apparent virtue of naming a concrete cause (vaccination) for a deeply worrying and little-understood syndrome (autism).
Nevertheless, this apparent virtue can paradoxically be altered by a skewed prevalence and a systematic one-sided variation between the ratings, which can convert a high value of agreement into a low value of kappa [ 38, 39].
Here the limitations and exclusions among actual humans licensed by the principled formulation of the possibility but need for actual realization of human virtue become apparent.
Ruddock was the Vicente del Bosque of Welsh rugby: a calm, charisma-free figure whose virtues were apparent only once he had gone, taking with him his 65% winning record, the best for any full-time Wales coach since John Dawes in the golden 1970s.
During the war he crunched numbers for his country, calculating the optimum number of pellets in anti-aircraft shells.These twin virtues are apparent in the middle third of this life, which lightly glosses over Friedman's most celebrated insights, such as his refutation of the bleak notion that capitalism is doomed to underconsumption, and his reassessment of the Great Depression.
Luciani has trouble taking seriously a heroine whose virtue is too apparent; Spreckelsen finds it seriously troubling to identify with an apparently virtuous heroine.
Tom Piccirilli, who last year unburdened himself of the turbulent, wackily eventful ghost novel NOVEMBER MOURNS (Bantam Spectra, paper, $5.99), traffics in extreme metaphors and narrative ploys that can seem fully as desperate and arbitrary as Nicholson's evil goats, and yet he has found a way to make a virtue out the apparent chaos of his morbid imagination.
The processes described herein are noteworthy in a regional geochemical and hydrogeological context, and also by virtue of their apparent dependency on weather conditions.
It might seem that, almost trivially, one cannot visualize an unseen object, in virtue of the apparent fact that to visualize, say, a tree is to think of oneself as seeing a tree, and I can hardly think of myself as seeing a tree that is unseen.
From their knowledge of Roman history, audiences in Venice would have recognised that the apparent triumph of love over virtue, celebrated by Nerone and Poppea in the closing duet, was in reality hollow, and that not long after this event Nerone kicked the pregnant Poppea to death.
Without the virtues of its apparent faults, "Mulholland Drive" was no longer what ABC had gambled on nine months earlier.
