Sentence examples for necessary virtue from inspiring English sources

Does he think patriotism is a necessary virtue?

It makes a kind of necessary virtue of poetry's inability to transcend "the probable world".

But there is another necessary virtue: time to knit the parts together.

For this Christian moralist, sin distorts individual and communal lives, hope is a necessary virtue, and God is not an icon or a mirage but a presence.

At Princeton, Wilson was taught about the necessary virtue of cosmopolitanism by Gauss, a professor of Romance languages and, later, a dean, who had known Wilde, and who had a dog called Baudelaire.

So patience is a necessary virtue for those who still believe that value investing works.

And, in her estimation, her block in the West Village contained all the necessary virtues.

"Where is perseverance, thrift, caution, industry — where are any of the necessary virtues?

Geremek knew that a feeling of national identity and pride is priceless, and that in Poland, condemned to struggle for independence, they are necessary virtues.

And, although it is easy to say that everyone loves Falstaff and hates Hal, I would argue that the moral complexity of the plays depends upon our acknowledging Hal's necessary virtues and Falstaff's often overlooked vices.

Like Blair before him, Cameron has reduced the act of government to a sort of murmuring grudge, a resentment, in which politicians continually tell the surly people that we lack the necessary virtues for survival in the modern world.