Sentence examples for of any virtue from inspiring English sources

Peter's growing prestige attracted numerous pilgrims to Rome, even during times when his successor was devoid of any virtue.

Moses further upbraids his people: "It is not for any virtue of yours that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people" (Deuteronomy 9 6).

While some may appreciate the film's beautiful camerawork, and may wish to admire the shock tactics of director Thomas Clay, any virtue in the film's evocation of small-town nastiness is totally wiped out by the gloating and unacceptably misogynistic torture-rape-murder finale.

This was not the result of any particular virtue but of sheer necessity.

But the characters, pruned of any redeeming virtue, are difficult to like, and too often the cup of bile runs over.

Her suffering could have been tiresome, in the manner of any insistent virtue, yet here it seemed to make her grander.

In fact, glory is present in the emergence of any moral virtue, whether applauded by an external public or not.

FORBES: Does globalization of wine have any virtues?

FORBES GLOBAL: Does globalization of wine have any virtues?

Which doesn't mean that compassion is any less of a virtue, but that the artistic display of it is a treacherous (aesthetic) path, even though one that is often lined with (critical) laurels.

William Wainwright's Religion and Morality defends the claim that divine command theory provides a more convincing account of moral obligation than any virtue-based theory, including Zagzebski's divine motivation theory, discussed earlier.