Sentence examples for obvious virtue from inspiring English sources

The most obvious virtue of the break-fast is the abundant gratitude for the food: the lox and whitefish.

This approach has one obvious virtue: if a private-equity firm wants to make money, it has to improve the value of the companies it buys.

It has also rankled those who don't consider smaller workforces to be an obvious virtue — namely, people in the U.S. who are looking for jobs.

But it does mean that principles which privilege these methods — which give them more weight than others, no matter what the question — have an obvious virtue: they recommend methods that aren't secret or the province of a few.

But we offered him the chance to play both Cratchit and Marley, and his response was, 'I've got something meaty, it'll be fun.'" The other, less immediately obvious virtue of performance capture is creative freedom.

Second, he suggests that the non-philosophers will be struck by the philosophers' obvious virtue (500d-502a).

As it is, Rene is one of those compromised characters whose obvious virtues run a tight race with his flaws.

In the shouting match over the health care law, most have somehow missed another of its obvious virtues: it enshrines accountability — yes, another conservative idea.

Tasteful it's not, but if you're still willing to spend the equivalent of £400 on a blinging piece of computer kit, then subtlety and moderation probably aren't your most obvious virtues.

Despite obvious virtues such as tenacity and a clarity of strategic vision that is impressive in such a swiftly changing industry, Mr Case comes across as a cold fish who buttons down his emotions so tightly that his colleagues call him "The Wall .In this section Who's sorry now?

As with so many traditions, institutions and circumstances that have evolved over the years -- as with that incomparably rich, warm sound of Carnegie Hall partly lost in the 1986 renovation, for example -- the Proms have grown organically and taken on a life of their own, a product of seeming defects as well as obvious virtues, of inadvertency as well as careful design.