Sentence examples for appealing virtue from inspiring English sources

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A particularly appealing virtue of the Jenkins and Lee principle—in addition, of course, to its protection of constitutional values—was its simplicity.

For my baseball-watching tastes, the potential for a September to remember has always been the game's most appealing virtue, and why these last two seasons, going down to the final day on multiple fronts, have elevated the baseball ethos more than any artificial home run spectacle ever could.

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Among my generation elsewhere in China, waste, greed and pleasure-seeking seem to have won out over capitalism's more appealing virtues; meanwhile, much of the country is mired in poverty.

In this context, "sexy" means "appealing by virtue of uniting popular or unlikely research strategies," but the effect is the same.

I assume I would be wasting my breath appealing for the virtues of intellectual excellence for its own sake, or in stressing how crucial it is for a healthy society to develop independence of thought and judgment.

The problem, of course, is that he didn't become the presumptive Republican nominee by appealing to conventional virtues.

That's what makes the beams, called "Tribute in Light," so appealing: By virtue of the tribute's silence, constancy and anonymity - indeed, its near-mystery - it is a 9/11 memorial that can symbolize anything a viewer cares to impute.

But this plan of attack does at least have the virtue of appealing to widespread worries about an Obama victory rather than pandering to the foam-flecked fringe.

The critic Michael Brenson wrote in the show's catalog, "Ms. Catlett's sculptures communicate a deeply human image of African-Americans while appealing to values and virtues that encourage a sense of common humanity".

In the show's catalog, the critic Michael Brenson wrote: "Catlett's sculptures communicate a deeply human image of African Americans while appealing to values and virtues that encourage a sense of common humanity.

Appealing to the related Stoic virtue of philanthrôpia or love of humankind, Seneca refashioned the relationship between clemency and justice, claiming that being clement goes beyond the letter of the law but is paradoxically the highest justice (iustissimum, 2.7.3, following Braund 2009, 66 70).

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