It should, instead, represent the better virtues of humans in its attempt to achieve justice.
Still, Purity is just as good as Freedom, if not better by virtue of its greater ambition.
David Eggers is a serious good-doer, a writer of enormous energy, determined to make the world better by virtue of the stories he investigates and puts forward.
"And then it very beautifully turns into the other, complimentary thing, which is that you understand the person better by virtue of the song, and it's a lovely sort of virtuous circle that this is.
Adolescence is the time to read not just good books but great books, because this is when books cast their enduring spell over our lives and make us better by virtue of making us suspect who we, and others, truly are.
The flip side of this growth and income group, namely balanced funds, fared better by virtue of their bond holdings.
It may be morally better by virtue of performing some supererogatory act — a good act beyond the call of duty — that the other being could have but did not perform.
"If you watch things, you tend to do better, by virtue of being aware of them," says Gerstein, who has a wifi-enabled bathroom scale that automatically records his weight and feeds it into a database.
In a world that too frequently insists that exercise doesn't just make you a healthier person, but a better person, virtues such as self-discipline and persistence are squared off against the vices of laziness and self-indulgence.
Finished product quality may also be bettered by virtue of increased knowledge of stresses acting within the composite product.
