Sentence examples for positive virtue from inspiring English sources

In the early 20th century, obscurity became a positive virtue.

Or make a positive virtue of sheer size or variety: "Massive", "pantechnicon" or "blue whale".

But, since its ad revenues are print-based, it's a profoundly positive virtue.

You know, they seem to think here in America that voting in itself is a positive virtue.

As Mr Ellis explains, the feebleness of the national government created by the Articles of Confederation was regarded by most Americans as a positive virtue.

Or so it seems to me, but then I come from the generation for whom, in the early nineteen-seventies, shoplifting became a positive virtue within the disaffected counterculture.

"He's channeling an appearance of positivity and optimism and patriotism, which are traditional positive virtues that most successful presidents trumpet when running for re-election," said Edmund Morris, the author of "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan".

A story's positive virtues are not different from the positive virtues of its writer.

This, of course, is what a 'role model' is: someone who, by gracefully embodying positive virtues, causes you to aspire to them yourself.

But if you've seen work by Mr. Taylor or Mark Morris or many other less famous modern-dance choreographers, it's hard to see what positive virtues Mr. Ueyama's work has.

Packed with the great and the good from the sustainable food industry - from top chefs to pioneering professors, organic gurus to award-winning producers, not to mention a star turn from Petal the water buffalo - the festival celebrates the many positive virtues of high-quality, healthy, delicious food.