Sentence examples for predictable virtue from inspiring English sources
I remember reading a passage from bell hooks once, the kind that circulates on Facebook because it sounds slightly unusual in its predictable virtue.
The only easily predictable virtue of the annual New Directors/New Films Festival is that, unless one is some kind of a movie nut with pen pals around the world, one comes upon the film makers and their films in a state of blissful, naked ignorance.
Beneath the predictable stories of unimpeachable virtue, former neighbours and friends describe a young man who was disciplined, devout, slightly reclusive – and even a bit dull.
Rather than resort to predictable preaching about the virtues of conservation, something modern westerners have acquired a certain deafness to hearing, Denver hired a young local ad agency to ridicule waste.
What's more, the Murano remains surefooted and predictable in hard maneuvers, virtues that have a lot to do with the monster tires and the multitude of computerized stability features that automatically apportion power to the left and right and to the front and rear.
You might be expecting -- or dreading -- that I'm going to add one more lofty challenge to your plate by giving, in the words of one campus publication, "a predictable speech extolling the virtues of public service".
"You've Got the Love I Need," written and recorded with Mr. Hamilton, makes a virtue of the simple and even the predictable — Mr. Green rhymes "life," inexorably, with "wife" — on its way to a likable disco chorus.
While documenting these and other penalties for maternal virtue, "The Price of Motherhood" is not a dreary or predictable book.
A corpse, we may reflect, has several modest virtues: it is silent, stationary, and, above all, utterly predictable.
Directed by the American Chris Weitz, who wrote the heavily condensed script, "The Golden Compass" has many of the virtues of a faithful screen adaptation and many of the predictable flaws.
