Sentence examples for calling virtue from inspiring English sources

Everywhere you look, a powerful person is engaged in a nice bit of what we've recently started calling "virtue signalling".

Calling virtue beautiful feels misplaced in modern terms, or even perverse; calling wisdom beautiful, as the Symposium does (204b), will sound like an outright mistake (Kosman 2010, 348 350).

There are other traits that Kant praises but stops short of calling virtues, or that he calls virtues only inconsistently.

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

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

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".

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