Sentence examples for formal virtues from inspiring English sources

Rockwell's paintings, notwithstanding their astounding microscopic verisimilitude, were never about formal virtues above all else.

Josh Kline, an American sculptor with a strong social conscience, organized this terrific group show with one eye on the formal virtues of art and the other on skewering political vices.

Rather, they are the formal virtues of the romantic hero: that is to say, they involve a commitment by the free individual to an object or person determined by the individual's contingent choice or passion.

Given its formal virtues, and its agnosticism on the content of law, the rule of law seems innocent of charges of a capitalist bias, or a bias of any kind.

Such freedom is not associated with any ethical principles or, indeed, with any of the formal virtues just mentioned, but consists simply in the "firmness" (Festigkeit) of character (Aesthetics, 1: 577; PKÄ, 145 6).

The goal of Weber's ethical project, rather, aims at cultivating a character who can willfully bring together these conflicting formal virtues to create what he calls "total personality" (Gesamtpersönlichkeit).

"The 36-Hour Day" remains a chilling book written in a formal style; its virtues are its comprehensiveness and its sober realism.

Marriage was the thing, or rather, a wedding was, with its formal neatness of virtue rewarded, the thrill of its pageantry and banqueting, and dizzy promise of lifelong union.

As thisnesses are the formal principles in virtue of which individuals are what they are, something particular, concrete, and perfectly determined in itself, so these individual causal principles deriving from ideas are what causes the passage from the specific ideal standard to the analytical description of its instantiations (QdU, fol. 135ra).

In this paper, we attempt a formal analysis of the virtues of new urbanism, a movement hailed as the most significant movement in urban planning and architecture in this century.

Musical Phrases Where Ms. Bates's performance in "About Schmidt" is a triumph of modern, Method-based acting, Christopher Plummer's no less impressive turn in "Nicholas Nickleby," in which he plays the mean, miserly uncle of the title character (Charlie Hunnam), demonstrates the virtues of formal vocal training in the classical style.