Sentence examples for exemplary morals from inspiring English sources

Nor has a president's exemplary morals ensured good judgment in response to domestic or international problems.

Whether he knew it or not, a number of those brave Mississippi freedom fighters found him, then and later, to be an attractive and exemplary moral witness.

This has been taken to suggest that simply by virtue of composing verse, poets exert some exemplary moral power - in a vague unthreatening way.

Unlike Carlyle, Tolstoy did not valorize individuals standing out from the crowd as exemplary moral paragons who wield socially ordained positions of power.

Such models may have a utilitarian, empirical basis; they may rest on independent moral grounds; or they may be based simply on the conviction that the actions of exemplary moral agents, such as Tian (Heaven) and the ancient sage-kings, cannot be wrong.

Perhaps Harvard's preeminence exacerbated things -- by placing this drama on a larger stage, engaging world-renowned scholars in the discussion, and expecting exemplary moral behavior from the world's leader in higher learning.

And Jean Val Jean, as a result, becomes Hugo's most exemplary and moral character: an honest man and a father so devoted to Cosette that he is willing to lay down his life so that she may find happiness with Marius.

"Die Zeit" then asked Francis about the possibility of ordaining viri probati ― men of virtue who are married "but can be ordained deacons because of their exemplary Catholic moral conduct".

Ogden Goelet says "without an exemplary and moral existence, there was no hope for a successful afterlife", while Geraldine Pinch suggests that the Negative Confession is essentially similar to the spells protecting from demons, and that the success of the Weighing of the Heart depended on the mystical knowledge of the true names of the judges rather than on the deceased's moral behaviour.

Hence the need for educational and religious training, he thought, the aim of which was to allow the individual agent "to perceive intuitively 'those awful truths, those eternal principles.' " His view of moral reason takes as morally exemplary the well-honed natural intuition of timeless moral principles.

Some virtue ethicists have argued that a morally exemplary person would recognize the moral standing of nonhuman organisms.