Sentence examples for of common virtue from inspiring English sources
Intimate friend of common virtue, Our hearts hot as flame, As we grow gray, our longing will not fade.
It's exactly the sort of pat screenplay psychology and populist affirmation of common virtue that the great directors of melodrama and comedy transform with irony, with exaggeration, with philosophical asides, with a persuasive simulation of material and psychological pressures or a riot of comic invention and audacity.
Lewis's rampant anarchy is also a radical democracy, celebrating the most humane impulses of the despised and downtrodden, exalting the noble intentions of pathetic bumblers, elevating the humble bearers of common virtues to heroes — and, along the way, giving the world a good guilt trip for not noticing these things on their own.
Because, ultimately no political revolution or evolution -- partisan or transpartisan -- can succeed without striking, echoing and amplifying the chord of common virtues and values that are the EXACT OPPOSITE of what our civilization is promoting through its priorities and policies.
His mother stood, and still stands, for common virtues.
For Common, virtue doesn't mean abstinence.
A little more than a year ago, the old and vanishing American mythology of common-man virtue enjoyed an unexpected comeback -- in the aftermath of 9/11.
Madison's great insight—"brilliant and prophetic", writes Mrs Cheney was that stability can never be achieved by a retreat to smaller and smaller units, peopled by citizens of common views and virtues.
Though there is no general consensus on this, a group counts as a people in the ethnic sense by virtue of common language, common culture, common history and attachment to a common territory.
This third way is not as satisfying as McCain's "victory" or the Democrats' "end the war," but it has the virtue of common sense and an awareness of what's actually happening around Iraq, for better and worse.
