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.
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).
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.
The discussion here lifts reverence out of its traditional context, while marking sharply the difference between reasoning about ethics and accepting authority and implying support for the unity of virtue.
This school was marked by dynamic verve, illogical perspectives, concealed grotesques, violent colours, and a strong tendency to see excess as a source of virtue.
Mr. Khodorkovsky is no paragon of virtue.
Hers is a story of virtue victorious.
Assurances of virtue are irrelevant.
They were visionaries of virtue.
