Debonair, suave, urbane, Noël Coward epitomized the cardinal virtues of his era — qualities that not many men aspire to anymore.
At the end of the day, the charges of civic virtue are cardinal, like the cardinal virtues.
Justice was once regularly shown with Prudence as well as Fortitude and Temperance, the four cardinal virtues.
For Coelho, it demonstrates one of the cardinal virtues he extols in his new book, Manuscript Found in Accra – elegance.
Waugh's cardinal virtues as a batsman were his concentration and his insatiable hunger for runs - any runs.
On these appeared personifications of the Christian cardinal virtues and other abstract ideas, such as truth, justice, wisdom, hope, and faith.
But this is a mellower work, a believer's portrait of the church he loves, built around the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude.
This sect preached the Confucian cardinal virtues as being essential for salvation, and consequently won a considerable following in conservative intellectual and official circles.
Their name for generosity, one of their four cardinal virtues (the others are courage, wisdom and fortitude) was wacatognaka, the ability to give without a pounding heart.
In his living room, that would be the quartet of four deep-red abstract photographs, titled "The Cardinal Virtues," by Harriet Leibowitz, a local artist he likes.
Disillusioned with the broken promises and clientelism of mainstream parties, the cardinal virtues for Fo have become "civic commitment" and "honesty".
