Sentence examples for proof of virtue from inspiring English sources

That is, stories can exist as a kind of "worst that could happen" entity, to remind us that the happy norm is not omnipresent; that good fortune is not proof of virtue; that statistical beneficence does not mean the miserable starving guy doesn't exist.

Mr Tuschi is impressed by Mr Khodorkovsky's decision to stay in Russia when he might have fled, and by his defiance in prison; but he seems too willing to see persecution as sufficient proof of virtue.Yet for all its quirks, Mr Tuschi's film conveys the venal brutality that underpins Mr Putin's rule.

In their schema, success is proof of virtue and people are to blame for their own misfortune.

When it comes to the current Presidential hopeful, Gopnik says he thinks Romney's attitude that wealth is "proof positive" of virtue can be attributed, "in some general sense," to Mormon beliefs.

The intensity of the desire is the proof of its virtue.

So they will press men to have sex without condoms as proof of their virtue.

He is no gaudy moralist, deriving from the crimes of his enemies the proof of his virtue.

Victory in the war is proof of the virtue and legitimacy of the state at first Soviet, now that of President Vladimir Putin.

These days the rich find it quite hard to get away with the presumption that their wealth is proof of their virtue.

Mr Erdogan's party took almost 50% of the vote at Turkey's 2011 election: impressive, but not absolute proof of democratic virtue.If broad support does not automatically qualify a leader as a democrat, nor does strong opposition disqualify him.

Some saw East Asia's rapid growth as proof of the virtues of market-friendly policies low taxation, flexible labour markets and open trade.