Sentence examples for of Victorian values from inspiring English sources

The New Sculpture is more exciting work from Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), Lofd Leighton of LeigHouseHousuchsuch as his Flaming June (the test-case Victorian picture that went from an 1895 stunner to unfashionable saleroom disaster in the 1950s, to a triumphant symbol of Victorian values in the 1980s' art market).

We also talk of "Victorian values".

Lots of Victorian values, self-reliance.

The agenda of "Victorian values" that Margaret Thatcher so readily propounded is actually only now coming to fruition through the actions of her acolytes.

But Gilbert's 'Entirely New and Original Japanese Opera' as he called it, represents an anglicisation of the Orient, the imposition of Victorian values on Japan.

Ziegler presents him as an unimaginative but selfless practitioner of Victorian values, instilled with notions of honour and service, whose experiences as a monarch honed his "ability to distinguish between the trivial and the important, the authentic and the spurious".

Certainly, she eagerly wrapped herself in the British flag for the Falklands conflict and spoke fervently of the need to return to Victorian values, even if she did have another, stronger impulse: to kick away the cosy insularity of British economic life and expose us to the monetary storms of the global market.

Today's Tories may no longer be in thrall to "Victorian values" and may, of necessity, have hitched their star to constitutional reform but the weeks since the election have revealed how, on the key economic issues, there is little to distinguish them from their 1980s predecessors.

Does that mean you support widening inequality, the desecration of poor communities in Wales and the North and a return to Victorian values?

It seems we are determined to cling to Victorian values.

Likewise, the austere allure of the Tallis Scholars is inseparable from the Anglican choral tradition, which owes much to Victorian values.