Sentence examples for common virtue from inspiring English sources
For Common, virtue doesn't mean abstinence.
Intimate friend of common virtue, Our hearts hot as flame, As we grow gray, our longing will not fade.
Regional words add flavour: gris gris, batture, nutria, mirlitons.These two books, so different in style, share a common virtue.
However, the six did fight well in an action where, as the Pacific commander, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, said, "Uncommon valor was a common virtue".
It's exactly the sort of pat screenplay psychology and populist affirmation of common virtue that the great directors of melodrama and comedy transform with irony, with exaggeration, with philosophical asides, with a persuasive simulation of material and psychological pressures or a riot of comic invention and audacity.
Lewis's rampant anarchy is also a radical democracy, celebrating the most humane impulses of the despised and downtrodden, exalting the noble intentions of pathetic bumblers, elevating the humble bearers of common virtues to heroes — and, along the way, giving the world a good guilt trip for not noticing these things on their own.
A quote that I always think of when it comes to gaming generations is Joseph Conrad's "As if it were too great, too mighty for common virtues, the ocean has no compassion, no faith, no law, no memory".
Because, ultimately no political revolution or evolution -- partisan or transpartisan -- can succeed without striking, echoing and amplifying the chord of common virtues and values that are the EXACT OPPOSITE of what our civilization is promoting through its priorities and policies.
Finding a person that shares your morals is also important; without common virtues we can easily misunderstand one another and the relationship will sour.
Someone might wonder what these things have in common, in virtue of which they are good.
