The phrase "negative virtue" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a quality or characteristic that is usually considered negative or undesirable, but can be seen as a positive trait in certain situations. Example: "Her stubbornness may be seen as a negative virtue in some people's eyes, but it has helped her stand her ground in difficult situations."
A negative virtue, but perhaps more lasting than love.
That may seem a negative virtue, but his dry and melancholy authority has been a brilliant counterirritant to the wastage of our language.
As well as this negative virtue, there are several positive reasons for liking the film: Seventies styles - the sideburns, the flares, the boxy cars - are captured without stylisation.
(Let's all be better at what we do!) But the clincher, for me, is the negative virtue of Eliasson's matter-of-factness, which more than refreshes in a type of art that commonly features strenuous myth and message.
Being undemonizable would seem like a negative virtue, especially when the predecessors in the office to which you aspire are such large and demonizable figures as Bobby Kennedy and Pat Moynihan and even Alfonse D'Amato; but Lazio's modest conception of himself is one of his strongest selling points.
The handsome, heavy-lidded British actor walks through the film looking like the ghost of James Dean and sounding, at various times, like Slim Pickens and like Noël Coward.There is, however, a kind of negative virtue to the pulsating musical score by Manos Hadjidakis.
Are these negative virtues?
These are negative virtues, and Mr. Ueyama has others.
By Richard H. Rovere The New Yorker, February 2 , 1976P. 86 When he took office a year and a half ago, Gerald Ford profited from a number of negative virtues... Tells how polls report that he currently holds the confidence of only a minority of the people, and perhaps only a minority of Republicans.
The New Yorker, February 2 , 1976P. 86 When he took office a year and a half ago, Gerald Ford profited from a number of negative virtues... Tells how polls report that he currently holds the confidence of only a minority of the people, and perhaps only a minority of Republicans.
When he took office a year and a half ago, Gerald Ford profited from a number of negative virtues... Tells how polls report that he currently holds the confidence of only a minority of the people, and perhaps only a minority of Republicans.
