Sentence examples for school virtues from inspiring English sources

The Edmond Dantès figure in Mr. Fry's telling is one Ned Maddstone, the perfect embodiment of English public school virtues.

But, as critics like to point out, this clutch of male ruling politicians embodies the grand Victorian public school virtues – or failings – more than most: suppression of emotion, devotion to the team, distrust of women and minimal empathy for the weak and ordinary.

Chivalry, rushing in to fill the gap where gallantry wilts, stops us just in time from writing that Miss Julie Andrews, the Lerner-Lowe original if not Shaw's, was a delightful Disney straight woman embodying every Sunday school virtue in two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.

She has a distinct point of view, a refreshingly not-fashionable one — she salutes Sunday-school virtues!

For all the novelty and Web jargon of Grillo's message, too, it has a homespun quality, stressing old-school virtues like trasparenza ("transparency"), coerenza ("consistency"), efficienza ("efficiency"), and above all, democrazia ("democracy").

Mann's reputation is inflated because his virtues — of hard substance and individual style within the framework of studio production and traditional genres — are themselves the reincarnation of cinematic myths, of the illusion that the old-school virtues of studio filmmaking are being perpetuated and, for that matter, that they're virtues and are worth perpetuating.

Among the lucid and often delightful observations Joan Acocella makes in her new collection of critical essays, "Twenty-Eight ArtiSaintsd Two Sainone" none is more important than this: "What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment".

But, as drunken roué, and, later, as Hitler and as Bluebeard, Chaplin was also the monster of ego; as a dethroned king, he embodied the dignified man of old-school virtues whose decency is tested by new technologies and the new morés they entail.

It is a nod to Arnie's old-school virtues.

Pale, reedy, determined, with rotating long and short hairstyles that speak to the multiyear shoot, Ms. Spiegel (in the movie, she is Ms. Vicary; she has since married), is a paragon of public-school virtue.

They are deemed the most gorgeous, not the brainiest, most charitable, religious, or non-religious, or any of the other feigned school girl virtues.