And according to naturalism, the good life is the life characteristically lived by someone who is good qua human being, and the virtues enable their possessor to live such a life because the virtues just are those character traits that make their possessor good qua human being (an excellent specimen of her kind) (Foot 2001).
"Have I had children's voices?" the outraged consul-elect demands, characteristically counting on men to live up to their word.
"He said, 'We will not give anything back, as long as I live.' " Merkel takes a characteristically unsentimental view of Russia.
While Americans characteristically oversell and exaggerate the world's desire to live as they do, it is actually reasonable to suppose, as Americans believe, that most human beings, if given the chance, would like to rule themselves.
In remarks made on the day he resigned, Ebersol characteristically questioned the business wisdom of carrying viewer-grabbing Olympic events live before prime time.
Benedict has characteristically fumbled a good idea by insisting that he will continue to live in the Vatican and share his private secretary, Georg Gänswein, with his successor.
Gurary, a short man with a characteristically thick Orthodox beard, lives with his wife and three little girls.
If you characteristically withhold yourself, keep yourself in reserve, refuse to risk yourself, those you live with are not going to be getting from you what they need.
When I ask Denis what brings together these disparate strands, her response is characteristically oblique:"I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life – how people live.
All that, together with Edinburgh's beautiful sights, friendly venues and characteristically poor weather means ICQG5, provisionally scheduled for Michigan in 4 years time, has much to live up to.
Characteristically, his researches were focused not on the love lives of the Tudor monarchs – which might have brought him flashier fame – but on how the country was actually run and what it was like to live in.
