Sentence examples for call virtue from inspiring English sources

"That which we call virtue is usually no more than a phantom formed by one's passions".

He complimented the jury and poured scorn on Davy's allegations, and seized upon the prosecution's unwillingness to call Virtue Hall to the stand.

Self-interest is the natural motive that justifies our establishing rules regarding property (T 499); but self-interest is neither always satisfied by just acts, nor approved in the way that traits we call virtues generally are (T 480).

In his indictment, Mr Savas called Virtue a "malignant tumour" and its members "blood-sucking vampires".

There are characters called Virtue (a twinkling Julia Sutton) and Vanity (a leering Gareth Davies who takes one look at the audience and says, "Aren't you ugly?").

And there are other brands: a three-day trade show this week in San Diego, called Virtue, will also include about 40 others vying for the attention of retail buyers.

And I can't exclude my all-time favourite, sent out as an email blast from a site called Virtue Alert: SATAN IS ON THE RAMPAGE, AND HIS NAME IS LAUREN MYRACLE!!!! Good heavens, eh?

It is a part of the play's irony that when the Duke countenances with grave philosophical calm the "going-forth" of Nature's virtues, he makes himself responsible, in the great casting of the play, for goings-forth from Angelo, Claudio and even Isabella and Mariana; these can be called virtue only by strenuous efforts of adjustment.

Greco (2004, 2008) defends a version of contextualism, what he calls "virtue contextualism".

He also commended the work of a European agency called Virtue that launched the first "genderless" digital assistant voice this spring.

Finally, pleasure, delectation, or beatitude are also called virtue by the equation of virtue with love and with charity (Repastinatio, 85).