Sentence examples for modern virtues from inspiring English sources

Whether the modern virtues of fellow feeling and decency (efficacious in social life) can by themselves constitute a significant force in the political realm is the question Wood's analysis raises.

But the most imaginative mosaics, representing the Modern Virtues, didn't appear until 1952, when Anrep was 67 and had seen an Allied victory he celebrated with Defiance: Churchill in his boiler suit, towering over a clawed, fanged beast shaped like a swastika.

Modern virtues also need to be practiced until they become second nature.

In place of Christianity's seven virtues, Anrep offered his own set of Modern Virtues, including "Humour" and "Open Mind"; the allegorical figures are again portraits of his contemporaries, including Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell and T. S. Eliot.

For example, modern roses developed by David Austin have been chosen for cottage gardens because of their old-fashioned look (multi-petaled form and rosette-shaped flowers) and fragrance combined with modern virtues of hardiness, repeat blooming, and disease-resistance.

We can join hands around uniting principles as people who stand for tolerance, reason, legal equality, and other modern virtues in one common purpose: to leave a better world for our children.

The lakes were a three-dimensional allegory of liberal politics, with the Temple of Modern Virtue a deliberately tottering ruin sheltering only a headless bust of Louis XIV, and the Temple of British Worthies glorifying a motley crew including Isaac Newton, Elizabeth I, John Locke and Walter Raleigh.

Following Plato and Aristotle, modern virtue ethics has always emphasised the importance of moral education, not as the inculcation of rules but as the training of character.

But although modern virtue ethics does not have to take the form known as "neo-Aristotelian", almost any modern version still shows that its roots are in ancient Greek philosophy by the employment of three concepts derived from it.

As modern virtue ethics has grown and more people have become familiar with its literature, the understanding of these terms has increased, but it is still the case that readers familiar only with modern philosophy tend to misinterpret them.

I was once a part of the segment of evangelicalism that fosters this kind of attitude -- the kind that makes leaders go on and on about their wives' hotness as if it's some kind of requisite modern virtue.