Sentence examples for not of virtue from inspiring English sources

He added that the heavy make-up, pouting lips, and despoiled hair, along with the tight-fitting bustier and full-length gloves, turned Madonna's image into a figure not of virtue, but of desire.

It's really important, but not out of virtue or duty: I just think it is so interesting.

The Hall of Fame is not a Hall of Virtue, not with all the lowlifes, boozers and bigots whose faces are on many of the bronze plaques lining the oaken walls of Cooperstown.

Besides, in the words of Father James: "There's too much talk about sins and not enough of virtues".

Earlier Stoics did not conceive of virtues for particular roles.

Note that despite the prominent place of virtues in Mohist ethics, the theory is not a form of virtue ethics, because the virtues are not taken as the basis for fundamental criteria of right action.

If remarks about "Jewish money" to a reporter don't convince some of his followers he's not a paragon of virtue, maybe an affair will.

Money isn't the measure of goodness, and religious window dressing is not the measure of virtue in candidates.

As we have seen, the clergy are not always pinnacles of virtue, and "moral" words are often spoken hypocritically.

Vice, for Kant, is not mere lack of virtue (MM 6 384).

Plato distinguishes between human goods such as health, beauty, and wealth, and divine goods, namely the virtues, and claims that human goods are not good independently of virtue.