Sentence examples for of virtue with from inspiring English sources

She now rewards generosity, bravery and other acts of virtue with songs of praise.

In "The New Meaning of Treason," Rebecca West warned decades ago of "confusing unpopular forms of virtue with evil".

In the other corner is Russell's crude, pragmatic opposite, Senator Joseph Cantwell Mr. Nothh), a self-styled pillar of virtue with working-class roots who is not averse to dirty campaigning.

Real progress will come when those with disabilities are seen neither as second-class citizens nor as superhuman symbols of virtue – with bodies that are "either an object of pity or valorized as 'super' in order to be acceptable", in the words of one commentator – but as fellow humans – who, like everybody else, should get support when they need it.

In spite of the Puritan-Yankee equation of virtue with well-being, Negroes had excellent reasons for doubting that money was made or kept by any very striking adherence to the Christian virtues; it certainly did not work that way for black Christians.

Thus it matters to Kant that we perform the duties of virtue with the properly cultivated emotions.

In his ethical teachings, famous because of the assaults of the Stoic philosophers, Theophrastus reiterated Aristotle's notion of a plurality of virtues with their relative vices and acknowledged a certain importance to external goods, which the Stoics held were mere luxuries for human life.

Upon his return, the Buddha says, among other things, that Pasenadi is "a friend of virtue, acquainted with virtue, intimate with virtue", while the opposite is said of the aggressor, King Ajatasattu.

She may be a paragon of virtue compared with the executives of Enron or, for that matter, O.J. Simpson.

Portrayed as a monster of virtue, bristling with his own sense of moral superiority, Saroyan takes ownership of the untold history as his to tell.

The Hall of Fame is not a Hall of Virtue, not with all the lowlifes, boozers and bigots whose faces are on many of the bronze plaques lining the oaken walls of Cooperstown.