Sentence examples for distinctive virtues from inspiring English sources

"The Birth of a Nation" is a movie with distinct and distinctive virtues, thematic and aesthetic, which emerge from Parker's impassioned and extended reflection on Nat Turner's life and on the monstrous institution of slavery in the United States.

That said, the movie has several distinctive virtues.

VW, the people's car company, has long symbolised the distinctive virtues of German manufacturing.

In both films, the subject of war is defined by the distinctive virtues of the warrior, which are too precious and rare to be put at heedless risk.

It is a sterling example of the tightrope South Africans walk every day: melding modern and ancient; Western and African; black and white and mixed-race culture, while still accommodating the distinctive virtues of each.

That history accounts in part for our independent-mindedness and the 'outsider' in our nature which is a such a distinctive virtue.

In Seneca's hands, clemency constitutes a new expression of the Stoic conception of universal human fellowship while at the same time embodying the ruler's distinctive virtue (it had been one of "the four virtues attributed to Augustus on an honorific shield," as observed by Griffin 2000: 540).

In the third book Lipsius, in line with medieval and humanist mirrors of princes, focused on the distinctive virtue of the prince: political prudence (prudentia civilis), for which he depends both on himself and the advice of others (officials, councilors, military commanders).

Shelley argues that women possess a "distinctive virtue" in their ability to sympathise with others and should use this ability to improve society.

Whatever its source, the doctrine of the Logos in John is distinctive by virtue of the fact that it identifies the Logos with a specific historical person.

Moreover, even though there are strong theological motivations to affirm a dualism that makes certain objects in the universe distinctive in virtue of being partly non-physical, it is an advantage to an account of creation and conservation to avoid such implications from these doctrines themselves.