Sentence examples for of moral virtue from inspiring English sources

Romney is among those who see business success as a sure sign of moral virtue.

But this one challenged the anti-war MPs' absurd claim to exclusive possession of moral virtue.

Judges in 1960 regarded themselves, rather more than they do today, as the custodians of moral virtue.

Communist propagandists are going old school, circa 1962, in resurrecting Lei Feng as a paragon of moral virtue and party devotion.

Machiavelli cannot simply dismiss or replace the traditional notion of moral virtue, which gets its strength from the religious beliefs of ordinary people.

Cults also grew up around immortals, those people who attained union with the Tao through the cultivation of moral virtue and perfection.

Empirical explorations of moral virtues have increased dramatically recently.

In many dialogues Scudéry insists that women as well as men can possess the full range of moral virtues.

Curtis dismantles and debunks the myth of the moral virtue of the West.

When we speak of a moral virtue or an excellence of character, the emphasis is not on mere distinctiveness or individuality, but on the combination of qualities that make an individual the sort of ethically admirable person he is.

Rhetoric (as taught by Quintilian) was a central topic not as an end in itself but as an effective means of channeling moral virtue into political action.