Sentence examples for lost virtues from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, this modest book is an invaluable reminder of the lost virtues of bipartisan judicial restraint.

Techno-cities mirror society's understanding of current technologies, and at the same time seek to regain the lost virtues of the edenic pre-industrial village.

We hear a lot today about recovering the lost virtues of slowness – by, for instance, spending time on locally sourcing and preparing a meal, or leaving children to explore the world unsupervised and at their own pace.

In his essay, The Lost Virtues of the Asylum, Oliver Sacks wrote how the 19th century asylums allowed, through the protection they offered, "the freedom to be as mad as one liked and, for some patients at least, to live through their psychoses and emerge from their depths as saner and stabler people".

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.

Losing virtue... is losing life.

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.

"America's lost its virtue," he said.

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.

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.