Sentence examples for of virtue for from inspiring English sources

Her arrival, though, presaged a loss of virtue for the act of pissing.

Jackson was in the grip of "a dangerous kind of self-love," mistaking "his own ceremonial pronouncements of his love of virtue for genuine self-worth".

I'd be extra-suspicious of any ethicist (or baker or harpsichordist, for that matter) who offered himself up as a paragon of virtue for all others to emulate.

The Web site scoffed, "Congratulations to us for the Commission on the Promotion of Virtue for teaching us virtue and for its eagerness to insure that all members of the Saudi public are among the people of paradise".

A pre-publication review in the Indian newsweekly India Today revealed that Rushdie had irreverently rewritten the life of the Prophet, the paradigmatic figure of virtue for all Muslims, naming him Mahound, the term used to identify him as a devil in medieval Christian caricature, and placing his 12 wives in a brothel.

Accordingly, Yamaga equated the samurai with the Confucian "superior man" and taught that his essential function was not only to keep himself fit for possible military service, but to justify the stipend his lord provided him with by becoming an exemplar of virtue for the lower classes.

Earlier Stoics did not conceive of virtues for particular roles.

Such questions have occupied center stage in recent epistemology (see Pritchard 2007 for an overview), nowhere more so than in the writings of virtue epistemologists, for they think their approach is uniquely suited to provide satisfying answers.

A brief conclusion traces some implications of the idea of "disequilibrating" virtue for technological design.

It was like being in a reimagined Las Vegas, with the celebration of virtue substituted for the celebration of sin.

Until then the ELR remains a glinting bauble of virtue, waiting for its moment to be loved or spurned.