Making virtue of necessity, Ban has tried to cast himself as a doer, not a talker, but he's largely failed on that front, too.
His favourite poetic sentiment involved making virtue of necessity – confronting difficult circumstances and making the best of them or even turning them to good.
These writers excel at the art of making virtue of necessity: out of a need to understand how the new language works, they turn into linguistic maniacs; out of a concern for correctness, they become compulsive grammarians.
Making virtue out of necessity, Bruder decided to specialize in polluted property.
Making virtue of necessity, the town of Old Lyme, Conn. originating point for Lyme disease will turn insects into an asset by sponsoring an educational radio program, Tick-Talk, and by promoting the fact that area motels, at no extra cost to travelers, offer "ticks in every room".
Instead of making virtue and good character subordinate to the requirements of reason, as we saw in the natural law theorists and in Kant, Hume appears to give virtue and good character room to guide and constrain the deliberations of agents so as to affect what they determine to be best to do.
