Sentence examples for it is virtuous from inspiring English sources
The two paintings make a statement about a Church that is, in Martin Luther's phrase, simul iustus et peccator — as sinful as it is virtuous.
For instance, it is sinful in New York City to buy a tomato grown in a California field because of the energy spent to truck it across the country; it is virtuous to buy one grown in a lavishly heated greenhouse in, say, the Hudson Valley.
He says, not that happiness is virtue, but that it is virtuous activity.
Since Aristotle treats all individual virtues as (learned dispositions) lying in a mean between extremes (courage, e. g., is between cowardice and foolhardiness), he also doesn't think it is virtuous to take less than one's fair share of things (though the issue is somewhat complicated for him).
Stoics were concerned with the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is in accord with nature.
We are conditioned to believe that it is virtuous to hide our strengths to save another from experiencing their weaknesses, to deny our blessings so that another avoids feeling their sorrows.
The message is something like this: Chipotle is not only tasty, it's virtuous.
How can it be virtuous to believe in something that is not true?
I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.
The dish is filling, but it's virtuous enough to make dessert something less than a hopeless indulgence.
