Sentence examples for paramount virtue from inspiring English sources

A paramount virtue in journalism is being the first to reveal startling facts.

Perhaps the whole episode of Xi Jinping's disappearance has been of no consequence to the leaders themselves, who view secrecy, not transparency, as a paramount virtue.

She regarded loyalty as the paramount virtue and anyone, even among her husband's greatest admirers, who went even the tiniest bit 'off message', as we would say now, would be brutally ejected from her circle, often never to be readmitted.

Eisgruber's practical recommendations for fixing the confirmation process boil down to having senators stand up for themselves during hearings, unafraid to say no, but his larger point is that, in pursuit of justice, moderation is the paramount virtue; even confirmed liberals and conservatives should, as a rule, prefer a moderate to someone who matches their more radical views.

Both the left and the right agree that respect for women is a paramount virtue.

Modesty is considered a paramount virtue among Orthodox Jews, so the fact that frum porn exists is strange.

It was produced at a time when clarity and elegance were held to be paramount virtues in philosophy, and before today's explosion of sub-disciplines cut philosophers off from much of their potential audience.

Investors are no longer interested in secretive hedge fund managers and inscrutable quant trading strategies, and so personal relationships and personal responsibility on the part of financial advisers will be paramount virtues.

For Willy, who had lived the belief that likability was a paramount human virtue, the confession is crushing.

It wasn't until the Romantic era, which introduced the notion of the author as solitary genius, that originality came to be viewed as the paramount literary virtue.

The elevation of budget discipline to the status of paramount economic virtue has been a powerful exercise in controlling the terms of political debate.