Sentence examples for evident virtues from inspiring English sources

But three years ago, when McKee was sent Charlie Kaufman's screenplay for "Adaptation," he had a glimpse of another possible (and gloomier) truth: that in the movies of other people's lives we are lucky to get anything better than the role of a character actor, who, with a bundle of evident virtues and vices, bounces for a moment or two off the protagonist.

If he showed any evident virtue, it was that, in a kleptocratic regime, he was relatively uncorrupt.

He was 12 at the time, and tough and cool were self-evident virtues.

He clearly thought, at the beginning of his first term, that his evident personal virtues, good will, intelligence, willingness to compromise — virtues evident to him, too, since modesty is not part of the cool man's arsenal anymore than insecurity is — would bring rational right-wingers in his direction and push out the fringe on both sides.

In osteosarcoma, soft tissue metastases may also be evident by virtue of malignant osteoid formation.

Mainstream movies generally opt for clear lines, bold strokes and self-evident vices or virtues.

His chief virtue, "more evident to our age than his", is narrowness of vision.

That she survives is evident, I hope, by virtue of the fact that she is telling us the story in the past tense.

But as his athletic skill became evident, so did his social virtues.

The pair's reluctance to see anyone lose was also evident when Mount extolled the virtues of all the final six (the remaining authors were Owen Matthews, Hsiao-Hung Pai, Ahmed Rashid and Mark Thompson), and also of several who got no further than the longlist - Patrick Cockburn (who had the compensation of winning the Orwell award for journalism), Mark Mazower and Philippe Sands.

At Ford he could focus less on the evils of Communism, which were self-evident, and more on the virtues of the United States.