Sentence examples for of easy virtue from inspiring English sources

That cabernet sauvignon is a grape of easy virtue.

One was a woman of easy virtue with a boyfriend who worked as an Elvis impersonator.

In the 19th century, when white symbolized chastity, brightly colored corsets were worn only by women of easy virtue.

"I think a really good dinner party should consist of an archbishop, an authoress, a lady of easy virtue, a tycoon and a Powers model".

In politics, truth is the first and second casualty, and these characters -- lieutenant governors, mayors, bosses, underbosses, madams, bagmen, industrialists, gangsters, bootleggers, policemen, women of easy virtue (well, all of them are of easy virtue, easy virtue being a sacrament in William Kennedy's Albany, an equal opportunity lender in this milieu as in all others) -- are marksmen.

Enough to convince Stephan Elliott, the director of Easy Virtue, to cast her as Larita, a feisty American divorcée who remarries into a family of British aristocrats and proceeds to antagonise them.

With Biel contributing a version of "Mad About the Boy" to Easy Virtue's soundtrack, one of the film's biggest surprises is that the actress can sing.

Prostitution was flourishing in every major American city in the second half of the nineteenth century, but with the untamed and unbalanced nature of the growth of the gold [and then silver] adventurers in Northern California, and the easy virtue of that environment, brothels became a special and major factor in the evolution of the San Francisco landscape and soul.

Barker, who died in 1994, was a native of New Orleans; the city where, around 1900 or so, a wild, free music rose out of gaudy vice and easy virtue.

If Mary Magdalene was a woman of hard virtue rather than easy virtue, then the church loses its flimsy justification.

In between, we find a boxing picture ("The Ring"), a public school story ("Downhill"), a rural comedy ("The Farmer's Wife"), an adaptation of a Noël Coward society drama ("Easy Virtue"), a proto-screwball comedy centered on a ditsy heiress ("Champagne") and a stark, almost neorealist treatment of adultery in an isolated fishing village ("The Manxman").