Sentence examples for conspicuous virtues from inspiring English sources
Loyalty was one of Howard's conspicuous virtues.
It was a vice that went charmingly with all that conspicuous virtue.
But the public profile of a Quaker meetinghouse, conspicuous by virtue of the presence of major art, and the budget of its handsome building, paid for by wealthy patrons, deeply divided the group.
Along with almost every other rugby virtue, execution was conspicuous by its absence when Toulon suffered a near-record defeat at Wasps in the opening round of this season's Champions Cup.
Fidelity, devotion, discretion, a sense of tacit virtue, unyielding principle, and conspicuous reserve — Ben is the apotheosis of conventional liberal morality, a firm grid of values that he applies to himself without daring to impose on others.
Surrounded by ornate mausoleums, memorial statuary and 560,000 dead bodies, "Civic Virtue" will be much less conspicuous.
Conspicuous by their absence from Rand's list of the cardinal virtues are the "virtues of benevolence", such as kindness, charity, generosity, and forgiveness.
In an era when conspicuous consumption reached newly stratospheric heights, she redefined taste as a virtue accessible to the middle classes.
Making a virtue out of necessity, many affluent people are turning from conspicuous consumers into "value" purchasers.
The great virtue of the Christensen analysis of innovation and growth in business -- or the conspicuous lack thereof -- is that the whole thing hangs together.
