Sentence examples for bad virtue from inspiring English sources

It ought always to be true to life: bad things should happen to good people, and good things should happen to bad; virtue should not be too readily rewarded and vice not too hotly punished.

You don't need God to be a good person, but you do need some way of differentiating good acts from bad, virtue from evil.

Nationalisation, the least bad, has the virtue of admitting where financial responsibility lies, and aligning power and potential profits accordingly.

To the protestors, any other human beings, whether journalists, policy wonks or charity workers, were simply "scum", "heartless" or some other full-spectrum bad adjective, by virtue of being there.

It is good when part of virtue, bad when part of vice.

"But on the bad side, by virtue of its scale, the Gates Foundation has driven a lot of other players off the field".

An intuitively plausible account of how learning occurs in this sort of situation is that the initial choice and its ensuing relatively bad outcome, by virtue of a comparison with an alternative counterfactual possibility, lead to an experience of regret, and this leads to adaptive choice switching (see Zeelenberg & Pieters, 2007).

Bad points: these "virtues" are now seen as vices at the root of the country's problems: firms sheltered from the full force of the market feel little pressure to use capital efficiently.