Sentence examples for lacked virtue from inspiring English sources

If republican leaders lacked virtue, he believed, liberty was endangered.

He may have been rich, temporarily romantically successful, and have died young, but simultaneously, the money lacked virtue and acceptable regard, his love was rendered futile by the past, which he could not change nor hold sway over, and his death was disappointingly unremarkable.

If someone lacks virtue, she may have any of several moral vices, or she may be characterized by a condition somewhere in between virtue and vice, such as continence or incontinence.

Because he lacks virtue, Tyball cannot re-enter by himself, and plans to sacrifice Baron Almric's daughter at the doorway to gain entrance.

It thus lacked the virtue of independence from political meddling, failed to provide anti-inflationary benefits and collapsed once its American sponsors no longer controlled the world economy.

Trials and executions were meant to strike terror in the hearts of all who lacked civic virtue; the Jacobins believed that was a necessary means of consolidating the new regime.

A consequence of this demotion in status of everything unproved was that those best equipped intellectually to examine and judge such matters could, and often did, believe, or allow others to believe, that they had the requisite knowledge of exactly what others lacked by virtue of their mastery of logic, theory, and other intellectual skills.

We unavoidably lacked, by virtue of the nature of our oncology practices and the VA setting of one of our groups, perfect age- and gender-matched comparisons to clearly evaluate the extent of the affects of sex and age upon circadian function of our cancer inpatients vs. outpatients.

If these considerations are correct, then the unjust are lacking in virtue tout court, whereas the just possess all of the virtues.

In short, if you don't eat clean you are lacking in virtue.

Doshi acidly called them "pure imitation," quick to be erected but lacking in "virtue".