Sentence examples for certain virtues from inspiring English sources

They start out with certain virtues but then develop more tenacious ones.

There are certain virtues in this man, Frankie said: a passion, gentleness, understanding.

SAY what you like about Peter Mandelson and few people can resist the temptation he has certain virtues.

The five moral systems, in Dr. Haidt's view, are innate psychological mechanisms that predispose children to absorb certain virtues.

He once told an interviewer, "I suppose I identify the right with certain virtues and the left with certain vices.

She was a moral symbol, and we read into that symbol certain virtues, which turned out to be wrong when she actually began speaking".

Spitzer gamely played along, telling Colbert that "there is a certain virtue to being able to tell the absolute truth and being able to stick it to people without worrying about repercussions".

Scientific principles of rationality have certain democratic virtues that many of their rivals lack.

America became great, they explain, because its citizens possessed certain vigorous virtues: self-reliance, personal responsibility, industriousness and a passion for freedom.

But the main campaign was aimed at parents, and its mission was to promote family ties, with a special emphasis on certain key virtues: patience, listening, compassion.

These were designed to showcase certain prized virtues: complex symbolism, nudity, high-end cinematography, nudity, art-house production values, nudity, and of course extreme violence (and nudity).