Sentence examples for describes a virtue from inspiring English sources
That is perfectly consistent with Aristotle's telling us it does not matter whether one describes a virtue or someone characterized by that virtue.
Most Democrats now style themselves as fiscal conservatives (if the term "conservative" can still be used to describe a virtue that has disappeared from the national Republican Party).
Aristotle describes ethical virtue as a "hexis" ("state" "condition" "disposition")—a tendency or disposition, induced by our habits, to have appropriate feelings (1105b25 6).
Asked about Obama's reluctance to court the extremely wealthy, Hughes described it as "a virtue".
Ralph Waldo Emerson once described a weed as, "a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered".
He describes Mr. Virtue's pictures as "punk epics: gritty, brazen with tough truth".
Instead, (7) is true with respect to the possibility that world-story describes in virtue of the world-story omitting mention of Bush altogether.
Burke, Wollstonecraft maintains, describes womanly virtue as weakness, thus leaving women no substantive roles in the public sphere and relegating them to uselessness.
He describes virtue as being an extreme of excellence (akrotês), which however lies in a mean, determined by reason, between two opposite emotions (De virtute morali 443D-444D; NicomachEthicshics 1107a6-8).
The Catechism describes chastity as a "moral virtue ... a gift from God, a grace, a fruit of spiritual effort".
Overbury's A Wife, which described the virtues that a young man should demand of a woman, was also circulating in manuscript at the court, where it was interpreted as an indirect attack on Lady Essex.
