Sentence examples for model of virtue from inspiring English sources

Morgan Stanley's argument, naturally, is that it has been a model of virtue.

But as a national trend, with their leaders proclaiming it, sacrifice becomes a model of virtue.

In the Bellum civile by the poet Lucan (1st century ad), Cato is represented as a model of virtue.

In 1852, she married Otto Goldschmidt, a devoted but second-rate German accompanist whom she described as "a model of virtue, industry and domesticity".

A more sophisticated model of virtue than Pamela, Clarissa is philosophical in an old-fashioned sense, teasing out maxims about human nature from everyday observation.

Yao, formally Tangdi Yao, in Chinese mythology, a legendary emperor (c. 24th century bce) of the golden age of antiquity, exalted by Confucius as an inspiration and perennial model of virtue, righteousness, and unselfish devotion.

Promenade at Versailles (1669) exemplifies Scudéry's royalist political philosophy at its most militant; Louis XIV is praised as the model of virtues and Versailles is depicted as a terrestrial paradise.

Not all Romans were models of virtue — Caligula's Latin was pretty good.

I only partly accept the "role model" argument that expects players to be models of virtue.

But Portugal doesn't stand out, and Spain and Ireland were models of virtue.

An art collection confirmed erudition, but also could be read as a self-portrait, revealing cultural range and chosen models of virtue.