Sentence examples for combined virtue from inspiring English sources

While the modal fictionalists we are now considering do not take ordinary language modal claims to have extensional translations in the language of possible worlds, they may still have a claim to the combined virtue with which Divers is concerned in another, albeit slightly more indirect, way.

According to Christopher Clark, Louise was "a female celebrity who in the mind of the public combined virtue, modesty, and sovereign grace with kindness and sex appeal, and whose early death in 1810 at the age of only thirty-four preserved her youth in the memory of posterity".

Mozi, originally a Confucian, based his system on a concept of universal love that was largely an extension of the Confucian idea of humanity; the "worthy man" Mozi recommended as the ideal leader was a development of Confucius's notion of excellence, combining virtue and ability.

Wrote it down: "Carter effectively combines virtues of Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker".

The proposed schemes, where transport variable and its first derivatives are carried as the unknowns, combine virtues of compact discretization and Padé scheme for spatial derivative.

If virtue be the spring of a popular government in times of peace, the spring of that government during a revolution is virtue combined with terror: virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent.

album, Springsteen combined political virtue and popular appeal, protest and party time.

We may define happiness as prosperity combined with virtue; or as independence of life; or as the secure enjoyment of the maximum of pleasure; or as a good condition of property and body, together with the power of guarding one's property and body and making use of them.

Its Walkman combined the virtues of products created by two strategic groups: manufacturers of boom boxes, characterized by great acoustics and "cool" image, and makers of transistor radios, valued for their low prices and convenient size and weight.

In it he combined the virtues of the inter-war European Marxist intelligentsia – a cosmopolitan breadth and an awareness of deep structures – with a more British interest in historical narrative and elegant writing.

The "repetition action" patented by Erard in 1821 combined the virtues of the two older actions resulting in a mechanism that responded to the bravura style of the early 19th-century virtuosos and thus helped to launch the great age of Romantic pianism that culminated in the piano works and playing of Chopin and Liszt.