Sentence examples for mere virtue from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the ASI would dismiss this as mere virtue signalling by the companies that have signed up to these new methods.

It's an honest school with a set of secrets, the mundane manners of living left dormant in museums, archives and the baseboards of the dorms themselves, secrets made magical by mere virtue of their survival.

In a week where Gentleman Jim Davidson has won Celebrity Big Brother, you might find yourself wondering whether there is any semi-pariah in British life who, by mere virtue of hanging around long enough, would not eventually find themselves restored to some sort of vogue given the right passage of time.

Total strangers will give you free weed, as if by mere virtue of the fact that you're in close proximity to Bienenstock, an unassuming and sweatered weed Yoda who acquaintances simply call Bean.

While it's absolutely fine to have certain literary standards, or argue for more books in a certain genre, claiming that one type of book is always better by mere virtue of its topic or kind is hurtful to all writers.

"Transcendence" means, to the metamodern philosopher, only and ever what it also means to quantum physicists and philosophers: a differential metaphysical and logical system from the one we receive by mere virtue of being born and having up to five senses at our command.

Gone were references to conservation as a mere "personal virtue" with no place in sound public policy.

Vice, for Kant, is not mere lack of virtue (MM 6 384).

A mere illusion of virtue guides him, not the real thing.

But they rise above the tract or the mere documen tary by virtue of the author's old‐fashioned and apparently in destructible humanism.

But Dick Cheney dismissed conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue," and administration officials waved aside pleas for a price ceiling.