Sentence examples for it was virtuous from inspiring English sources
One of the criticisms I have of us is that we arrived in the good times, we arrived collectively in '97, we hunted as a pack, we actually thought it was virtuous not to stab each other in the back or jostle for position.
Instead of merely signaling that it was virtuous, the legislature was trying to signal that from now on, all of American history would be virtuous, too.
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.
The second requirement is that in addition to knowing which action is the virtuous one and which is the non-virtuous one, I have to decide to perform the action because it's virtuous.
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.
And I suppose it's virtuous and politically correct and all that to present the play's only woman and only self-accepting gay guy (Mr. Glick's character) as the two people at ease in their own skins.
He says, not that happiness is virtue, but that it is virtuous activity.
