Sentence examples for mark of virtue from inspiring English sources

This was one case where a star athlete's tardiness was a mark of virtue, not casual disregard.

Similarly, McConaughey's decision to open his acceptance speech with thanks to God — as in many similar statements, usually made by victorious athletes in post-game interviews — was widely regarded as a sign of humility: a mark of virtue, in other words.

In a terrifying act of self-deception, Eichmann believed his inhuman acts were marks of virtue.

To have a feeling like anger at the right time, on the right occasion, towards the right people, for the right purpose and in the right manner is to feel the right amount, the mean between extremes of excess and deficiency; this is the mark of moral virtue (1106a15 20).

But then reliability cannot be a distinctive mark of the intellectual virtues.

In fact, reserve was seen as a quality of the imperial class, and even in the mid-20th century, Alan Bennett's working-class mother thought that shyness was a "burdensome virtue", a mark of sensitivity and refinement that saved someone from being "common".

Indeed, he regards accepting harm to one's local community, if that is necessary for the good of the universe, as a mark of the highest wisdom and virtue (235 6).

The astonished Chaplinesque laugh has a Voltairean fury; the Tashlinesque guffaw has an obscene, boundary-breaking vigor; and the ironic Andersonian chuckle marks an abiding warmth, a deep sense of virtue, loyalty, temerity, and courage.