The samurai was equated with the Confucian "perfect gentleman" and was taught that his essential function was to exemplify virtue to the lower classes.
If only athletes could just exemplify virtues like perseverance and teamwork, as the organisers of the Olympics insist they do.
Every Mark Morris dancer exemplifies virtues of dancing freshly in the moment, but nobody makes each moment fresher than Mr. McDonald.
Yes, the people in question were Catholic nuns, those still-heroic figures in American life who spend most of their time exemplifying the virtue of taking the option for the poor.
Raised on the principles of democratic individualism, Western advocates for women's rights have a hard time identifying with the loyal wives, hardworking mothers and dutiful daughters who exemplify female virtue in many Third World countries.
(Was he suffering from the seasonal allergies that plague everyone else in Washington?) Chief Justice Roberts thus exemplifies the "virtue of compromise in an era of Occupiers, Tea Partiers and litmus-testing special interests," according to David Von Drehle's admiring Time magazine cover story.
The racist, therefore, can neither exemplify the virtue of tolerance nor should he be asked to be tolerant; what is necessary is that he overcome his racist beliefs.
Reid is clear that the moral judgments in question are not general ones that concern the first principles of morals, but particular judgments that concern whether someone has behaved well or badly or exemplifies a virtue or vice.
IF THERE IS an industry that exemplifies the virtues of the private sector, it is technology.
Notably, the heroines of women's devotional stories exemplify moral virtues, ritual knowledge, devotional fervour, and transformative agency.
