Sentence examples for ideal of character from inspiring English sources
Can so narrow an ideal of character flourish in a society as abundantly and variously gifted as our own?
In place of fostering evangelical conversion, religiously liberal educators sought to foster in students a surprisingly more gendered ideal of character and service than had earlier evangelical educators.
Still others argue that Smith's account of virtue re-works but to a remarkable degree also retains the highest ideals of both the Christian and the ancient Greco-Roman traditions, suggesting that his willingness to uphold such an ideal of character even in modern commercial societies should be understand as a critique rather than an endorsement of Rousseau (Hanley 2009).
This year's crop, however, is essentially a sanguine one, suggesting that whatever calamities Columbus ultimately may have precipitated, at least he had the kind of dogged faith in a personal dream that symbolizes the Western ideal of character.
Broadly speaking, the first half of this period exhibits a considerable amount of biographical activity, of which much has been lost; such fragments as remain of the rest largely funeral elegies and rhetorical exercises depicting ideal types of character or behaviour suggest that from a literary point of view the loss is not grievous.
According to Andrew Zobler the Founder and CEO of the Sydell Group, it's about the ideal mix of character and comfort.
The ideals of naturalness, character, soul, passion, and expressiveness came to govern the ballet.
More than any other dance it appeared to represent some of the abstract values of the new era, the ideals of freedom, character, passion, and expressiveness.
Part of the contemporary revival of virtue ethics is premised partly on a reaction against the ambition of modern ethical theory to guide primarily through general principles of action rather than through the specification of ideal character traits.
The prevalence of kinky sex in the story reflects the hippy ideal of "free love"; characters are both liberal-minded and promiscuous.
