The figures embody virtues, including Truth, Faith, Justice, Love and Charity.
From the very first pages of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 book, Jane embodies virtues that might be off-putting if they were not so persuasive, and if her story were not such a marvelous welter of grim suffering and smoldering passion.
Resilient and calm, Brighton embody the virtues of their manager.
Certainly, some recent stockmarket stars seem to embody the virtues for which Mr Bryan is striving.
People who embody those virtues reconnect us with our own deepest feelings and desires.
One could say that within the Confucian worldview, ren is ren: embodying the virtue of humaneness requires that one become an ethically mature human being.
Mr. Tillman was enough of a loner, truth seeker, adventurer and physical marvel to embody the virtues that Mr. Krakauer has himself exemplified and celebrated in others.
These former and current National Football League players embody the virtues attributed to the university's mascot, the Ibis, which is described as a bird of courage, knowledge, strength and speed.
7. Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess Bad breath and genius … Structured around Beethoven's Eroica, which the composer originally dedicated to Napoleon, believing him to embody the virtues of the French Revolution, Burgess's "misunderstood" 1974 novel in four parts covering Napoleon's early victories, rise to first consul and coronation, empire and fall is obviously an experiment.
Is it not the case that different cultures embody different virtues, (MacIntyre 1985) and hence that the v-rules will pick out actions as right or wrong only relative to a particular culture?
We were created to embody great virtues, and not only our sovereign individuality.
