Sentence examples for like a virtue from inspiring English sources

That may sound like a virtue, but it's really a way of repudiating ambiguity and complexity.

In debates, Lula has managed to make the PT's serial scandals sound almost like a virtue.

The discontinuity between the two is made to sound like a virtue.

Suddenly, maturity was made to look like a virtue rather than a burden.

Still, what appeared to critics to be a problem with the early work seems more like a virtue today.

There are some good history books that describe political moderation, like "A Virtue for Courageous Minds" by Aurelian Craiutu, a political scientist at Indiana University.

But now, with Republicans spectacularly applying the Madman Theory for the first time in domestic politics, Obama's nonconfrontational reasonableness isn't looking like such a virtue.

But time and time again he'd just say something like "Patience is a virtue, and Arsenal fans sure do have a lot of it!" and then everybody would sulk off to check Twitter again.

The bird narrator, played with simplicity and grace by Birgit Huppuch, introduces scenes by announcing a virtue, like curiosity.

None of it makes much sense, but, like slackness, nonsense proves a virtue here.

And since he is defined above all else by his tendency toward anxiety, that tendency inevitably takes on the quality of a heroic trait — a virtue, like Achilles' bravery, Socrates' wisdom, Jesus' compassion or George Washington's honesty.