Sentence examples for lost virtue from inspiring English sources

Fawaz can't get up for work because Zahra keeps him up all night.' " Fawaz told me that, according to his interpretation of Islam, he was "honoring Zahra again" — restoring her lost virtue — by marrying her.

The entertainment value of that lost virtue, innocence -- and more specifically, of innocence lost -- is now the province of adults looking for a reminder, however idealized, of their own pasts.

Some saw the lost virtue of civility in politics; others, the unlikely friendships that blossom at the rarefied heights of public life.

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An op-ed on the lost virtue of "manliness".

Recent censorship issues detailed in the book include Howard Stern and the Columbine High School massacre, and the author critiques A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue by Wendy Shalit and Mothers Organized for Moral Stability (MOMS).

In "Ur of the Chaldees," Leonard Woolley asked: "Why, if Ur was an empire's capital, if Sumer was once a vast granary, has the population dwindled to nothing, the very soil lost its virtue?" The answer -- the reason "the very soil lost its virtue" -- is that heavy irrigation in a hot, dry climate leads to a gradual accumulation of salt in the soil.

Others viewed the delay as an opportunity, such as star ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, who used the unexpected break to make up for training time lost to Virtue's injuries.

This volume ends with the Spanish-American war of 1898, when it is often held that America lost her virtue and her age of empire began.

Coggan briskly punctures what a predecessor called the "myth of lost economic virtue", the idea that in a golden past books were always balanced and nobody – individuals, families or nations – spent a penny more than they legitimately earned.

'The Bridge of Sighs' by Thomas Hood Hood's once famous poem was inspired by the suicide of a young woman who, having lost her virtue, threw herself off Waterloo Bridge.