Sentence examples for pleasant virtue from inspiring English sources

Formerly, when I could seldom spare money, I kept catalogues as much as possible out of sight; now I savour them page by page, and make a pleasant virtue of the discretion I must needs impose upon myself.

"Kindness, which is a peaceful and pleasant virtue, one necessary for society and rightly admired, becomes a vice if it lacks certain limits.

Shaftesbury, in contrast, sought to convince his readers that true virtue is pleasant, well-mannered, polished, and above all sociable.

He was pleasant, if tired, chatting about virtue; religion (he's not devout); artistic independence; the early days of his career; his ambivalence toward Hollywood and those magical details, such as Anjelica Huston's legs or Gary Oldman's sly whimsy, that conspire to frame a scene.

Weighing competing virtues is a pleasant diversion to Miss Manners, who spends most of her time just pointing out the difference between good and bad manners.

Being "appropriate, pleasant and polite," he writes in response, "is either virtue or something very like virtue.

I'll Have Another's female line is rich in stamina by virtue of such stayers as Arch, Pleasant Tap and Caucasus.

But here the conflicting impulses amount to a kind of civic virtue as these people pull together to remake England into a patchwork and pleasant land.

What the non-naturalist must reject is the thesis that such suppressed premises are true in virtue of the identity of goodness with the natural property in question (being pleasant, in this case).

Shaftesbury argued vehemently that "virtue and interest coincide," because he maintained that happiness depends on a preponderance of pleasant affects, and the emotions carrying moral worth are themselves pleasant.

There are few more pleasant ways to get acquainted with New York's kaleidoscope of neighborhoods and hear their virtues acclaimed.