Sentence examples for might be virtuous from inspiring English sources

(Surowiecki uses this example: When asked to choose a movie to watch a week from now, we pick an Ingmar Bergman film, because we think it might be virtuous to do so, but when we're asked to choose one to watch now, invariably it's "Weekend at Bernie's," and we feel sort of sick about it).

(In Thomson's famous example, a person is hooked up to a famous violinist, who will die if she withdraws her body's support. While it might be virtuous to remain hooked up, Thomson argues that it is not required by morality).

Luminescent and fluorescent bulbs might be more virtuous, but they shone more dully, and poets loved them less.Fluorescent bulbs might be more virtuous, but they shone more dully, and poets loved them lessThe light shed by incandescent bulbs was bright, white and steady.

Mr Shiller explains the role they play in advancing the greater good, and, in so far as they contributed to the latest financial mess, he analyses what they did wrong and how they might be made virtuous again.

As I wrote here many times, the market will stretch at its extremities; one will end up with more automation (the aforementioned RTB trap) while the other end might be more virtuous.

Supermarket self-service checkouts are wonderfully convenient, but a new report from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom shows they might be turning virtuous patrons into greedy shoplifters, The New York Times reports.

One might wonder, then, how the sage can truly be said to be virtuous.

Summer is no time to be virtuous.

"I know Barack Obama must really be virtuous.

I think I can be virtuous.

Just self-controlled enough to be virtuous.