Sentence examples for greater virtues from inspiring English sources

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Nice, with a Welsh wife – could any Englishman have greater virtues?

Without fat a piece of meat is just so much stolid, worthy protein; a joyless celebration of earnest activity rather than the greater virtues of sloth and indulgence.

Key to his transformation was the realization that "whatever my father's greater virtues were as a writer, a warrior, and a wise man – in his daily life he was a basket case, or in the vocabulary of the time: dysfunctional".

He's someone who picked that lock a hundred times over … I always get defensive about him when people talk about him being untrustworthy and chaotic – he's both of those things, but in a way it's because of much greater virtues that he is chaotic and untrustworthy".

Translated this means: "We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune".

In the book, he writes, "whatever my father's greater virtues were as a writer, a warrior, and a wise man – in his daily life he was a basket case, or in the vocabulary of the time: dysfunctional".

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Wildavsky argued that resilience was sometimes a greater virtue than prescience.

There is no greater virtue in a free vote here or a plebiscite.

It has three great virtues.

It's an approach with two great virtues.

They regard his supposed flaws as great virtues.

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