Sentence examples for basic virtue from inspiring English sources

Confucius taught the concept of ren, love or human-heartedness, as the basic virtue of manhood.

Haunted by his hideous secret, Paul tries to reassure himself of his basic virtue.

What is it about bureaucracies with significant missions that impels them to forsake the basic virtue of humility?

They're equally fascinating and strange, equally peculiar in their relation to the landscape around, and visiting them, as child or adult, would have the same basic virtue – informing and showing you where things come from, always useful and instructive in a society that likes to imagine that its fuels, technologies and commodities appear as if by magic.

The basic virtue of "Hidden Figures" (which opens on December 25th), and it's a formidable one, is to proclaim with a clarion vibrancy that, were it not for the devoted, unique, and indispensable efforts of three black women scientists, the United States might not have successfully sent people into space or to the moon and back.

Religions have developed deep and extensive doctrines -- meant, perhaps, to develop basic virtue into saintliness -- but often the most basic level of human empathy required of adherents is treated as just another such doctrine rather than as a foundation that must exist within a person and that no book can teach.

The manager's emphasis on football's "basic virtues" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and professionalism is somewhat counter-cultural at the Commerzbank Arena.

When a food object becomes subject to the caprices of fashion, it's easy for its basic virtues to be lost.

A comfortable 3-1 victory against League One opposition is still a comfortable 3-1 victory and, if there is anything more to be gleaned from Reading's simple act of third round banana-skin avoidance, it is perhaps just a reminder of the basic virtues of the current team.

One needs to go through an initial stage of mastering these basic virtues in order to 1) reinforce one's altruistic impulses and curtail the egoistic ones, 2) be inclined to seek principled rapport and harmony in interpersonal affairs, and 3) be moved by a sense of oneness with others and all things.

The Taoist Three Treasures or Three Jewels comprise the basic virtues of ci (, usually translated as compassion), jian (, usually translated as moderation), and bugan wei tianxia xian (, literally "not daring to act as first under the heavens", but usually translated as humility).