Sentence examples for room for virtue from inspiring English sources

There is room for virtue in the world, but it is the virtue of individual acts of charity — the acts of people like Frances, tirelessly cooking supper for everyone who turns up in her kitchen, and Sylvia, the former anorexic, who works herself to death trying to run a hospital in rural Zimlia.

Pantomime leaves room only for virtue and villainy, and the ritualised denunciations from the left seem increasingly true to the genre.

Yet they made room for the political virtues of the embodied soul as a first step in this process of divinization or "becoming like God" (O'Meara 2003).

The Roman historian Livy said of Cincinnatus that "it is worthwhile for those persons who despise all things human and who suppose that there is no room either for exalted honor, or for virtue, except where riches abound in great profusion, to listen to his story".

"Under this new leadership of Mike Nesbitt it seems that there's no room for unionists with traditional virtues like me.

Surely a sophisticated version of utilitarianism, such as rule or indirect utilitarianism, can have room for the idea that duties, virtues etc. cannot be overridden by ordinary calculations of utility since to allow this would be to risk too much overall disutility.

Virtus is a Latin word for virtue.

The weight of the dazzling iconography of production and consumption, together with these vices-become-virtues leaves no room for other, eclipsed visions of the better world that this one might have been, but can no longer be, since these have been colonised by one of the many possible versions of prosperity or well-being.

So much for virtue being its own reward.

— do-it-yourself — has become a synonym for virtue.

For virtue ethics the relevant properties are moral virtues and vices, and for VE intellectual virtues and vices.