Sentence examples for artistic virtue from inspiring English sources

But that implies only sociological rather than artistic virtue.

The higher paradox is that even these movie's apparent faults clashed only to rise to a higher artistic virtue.

For the young Pessoa, this message resonated, since it turned his own tendency toward hesitation and withdrawal into an artistic virtue.

Where the other major writers of his age got caught up in the great debate of the time — Ben Jonson became a Catholic and spent time in prison; Christopher Marlowe got so mixed up in Protestant espionage that it probably cost him his life — Shakespeare made a point and, in the end, an artistic virtue of evading any position and keeping his own counsel.

"Caravaggio: The Final Years" is the first to concentrate on the last four years of the artist's life, 1606-10, when hadhad fled Rome after accidentally killing a man.His artistic reputation had preceded him, and he was welcomed first in Naples, and then Malta, where he was invited to join the knighthood for his artistic virtue before being imprisoned for brawling.

Those dogged, I-share-your-suffering images of ground-down peasant women and Dutch cloggies grouped around the sacramental potato, done in glum, awkward homage to Jean-François Millet and English social-consciousness painters such as Luke Fildes, all testify that sincerity, on its own, is not an artistic virtue.

Often, it achieved that rarest of artistic virtues, a genuine feeling of spontaneity.

Oddly, the one quality not mentioned in the song's roster of artistic virtues is feeling.

Yet aside from its hard-right ideology, "Little Orphan Annie" has considerable artistic virtues, as Updike points out in his letter.

The daughter of an oil-rich Osage Indian (she had the cheekbones to prove it) and a Scotch-Irish woman, she more or less epitomized what her contemporaries regarded as our national history, and her artistic virtues — grandeur, command — were exactly those that Americans of that period, the height of the Cold War, wanted to believe were specifically American traits.

But it doesn't quite make sense that an art museum would host an exhibit of work that owes so much of its value to commercial, rather than artistic, virtues.