Of course, virtues like the ones Mr. Brooks lists -- "industriousness, sobriety, fidelity, punctuality and dependability" -- are all free.
Of course, all virtue and no vice makes skin -- and people -- dull.
He stood out, of course, by virtue of the fact that he was dressed entirely in black and wore a large Texan hat, also black.
The EU of course, by virtue of its economic weight and leading role in international trade negotiations, can pack a formidable punch in peacetime diplomacy, including the sort that can prevent conflict from breaking out.
I'd been placed in a mid-level, rather than entry-level, English poetry course by virtue of a misleadingly respectable score on the SAT verbal, the result of compulsive memorization of vocabulary and word-analogy lists in a Barron's test-preparation workbook.
Of course, the virtue of using PayPal is that you don't have to have a Visa account to use its payments service.
Team members had the opportunity for social interaction throughout the course by virtue of its residential nature, with overnight accommodation for two nights, together with a course dinner.
Of course the virtues of a plastic cup will be obvious to anyone who's tried to serve drinks to more than a half-dozen people simultaneously.
Of course, the central virtue of money is precisely its anonymity.
