Sentence examples for latent virtue from inspiring English sources
Brando's performance is, of course, famous for its incarnation of crude tenderness, of latent virtue given its first chance to arise from vicious circumstances.
De is thus what one has "obtained" from (the) Dao, a "latent power" by "virtue" of which any being becomes what it is (Waley 1958, 32).
He argued against the prevalent view that such objects were "Stones form'd by some extraordinary Plastick virtue latent in the Earth itself".
While quite insightful, the study by Muller et al. does not address the effect of viral replication on the decay of the latent reservoir by virtue of their simplifying assumption that viral replication does replenish the latent reservoir.
In unstressed cells, Nrf2 is maintained in a latent cytoplasmic complex by virtue of its binding to the BTB protein, Keap1.
The "superior virtue" of Daoism is a latent power that never lays claim to its achievements; it is the "mysterious power" (xuande) of Dao present in the heart of the sage—"persons of superior virtue never act (wuwei), and yet there is nothing they leave undone".
Importantly, pleiotropy on unobservables (G2 → U2) includes effects of genes on latent pre-tie formation phenotype (which by virtue of being unobserved is an element of U2).
However, it differs from these other factors by virtue of its low molecular mass and its ability to activate latent matrix metalloproteinases in a dose dependent manner.
Owing to the virtues of high energy density and constant charging/discharging temperature, the high-temperature latent heat storage (LHS) technology has been preferred for heat storage in concentrated solar power (CSP) system.
"Berliners are latent megalomaniacs.
