Sentence examples for prime virtues from inspiring English sources

This is not faint praise but a description of the work's prime virtues.

The nominal director of the film is James Solomon, but Bill Genovese is its main author, and its prime virtues arise from his quest.

These have always been prime virtues in the Bournonville ballet tradition of Denmark, which was Mr. Hübbe's training ground, and they are yet more crucial in the Balanchine tradition at City Ballet, which Mr. Hübbe has adorned since 1992.

His Apollo reminded me how manuals on classical singing in the virtuoso age of the 18th century always insisted that two prime virtues in performance were always spontaneity and intensity.

The obvious benefit: rather than being obligated to sit in front of the defense, Jones was liberated to use one of his prime virtues, his ability to cover ground, to have a greater influence.

The independence of temperament that Grahame displayed in her movies wasn't far from the way that she lived her life — and it's one of the prime virtues of classic Hollywood films that their extreme techniques of artifice nonetheless served a peculiar transparency of performance.

A prime virtue of biography is specificity of psychological insight.

(This is a prime virtue of American dance in general).

Whereas the prime virtue for British players is obedience and silent devotion to the cause – soldierly discipline.

As early as 1926, when Roethke was a sophomore at the University of Michigan, he was already laying special claim to "sincerity, — that prime virtue of any creative worker".

Yglesias: [I]t's a straightforward consequence of the right wing's sick obsession with reducing the level of taxes rich people need to pay as the prime virtue of politics.