Sentence examples for morally excellent from inspiring English sources
The Confucians held that the remedy to China's turmoil and chaos lay in wise and morally excellent rulers that moral excellence would ripple downwards from the top and create harmony and prosperity.
Dire distress provoked swift action, and that is morally excellent.
"We keep our doors closed," Mr. Atta said, "and that is why my two daughters and my son are academically and morally excellent".
That doesn't mean we're all morally excellent (we can become heroic or vile); it doesn't gives us the right to abuse and exterminate other species; and it doesn't mean humans can do everything better (a cheetah will outrun me and a bloodhound will outsniff me every time).
He has done it in an angry way, outraged as much by claims that his son is a hijacker as by the reports that his son may have been drinking vodka and playing video games days before he boarded American Airlines Flight 11. "We keep our doors closed," the elder Atta said, "and that is why my two daughters and my son are academically and morally excellent".
Could citizens learn to be morally excellent, or were these qualities only inherited?
The concept of a virtue is the concept of something that makes its possessor good: a virtuous person is a morally good, excellent or admirable person who acts and feels well, rightly, as she should.
On this sitting, he set out to understand how the College Board would grade an essay that was morally repugnant yet had excellent structure, language and syntax.
After all, he has a mostly excellent and morally consistent voting record.
Thus when he says that happiness consists in an activity in 'accordance with virtue' (kat' aretên; EN 1098a18), Aristotle means that it is a kind of excellent activity, and not merely morally virtuous activity.
Hayder's fifth novel is full of the trademarks that made her name: expertly deployed shock tactics, excellent research, a cast of physically, mentally or morally damaged characters, and two sympathetic protagonists with painful past lives.
