Sentence examples for singular virtue from inspiring English sources

Honesty overused — treated as a singular virtue by itself — can actually lead to cruelty.

By this time, flourishing was considered frivolous and unnecessary in business, for which the chief and singular virtue of penmanship was legibility.

To reread the essays is to be reminded of a singular virtue of all her writing, the novels and the memoirs as well as the essays.

But the Capitol feels an irresistible election-year push to pass it -- minus, however, its singular virtue, the F.D.A. controls over tobacco.

Winning is no longer a singular virtue in an increasingly interdependent world, not least because it casts everyone else as losers.

But it remains the singular virtue of Jonathan Bate's text, and now of Callow's much-altered performance, that there is no attempt at hagiography, and no undue astonishment, or disbelief, at the achievement of the plays.

By the late nineteen-nineties, more roasters were deëmphasizing blended coffee in order to highlight the singular virtues of their favorite beans.

His self-representation as a grateful American, one who, having arrived as an immigrant, acknowledges the country's singular virtues, serves as an easy contrast with Obama, who is supposedly an anti-colonialist, anti-Western, anti-American, and, for that matter, anti-white — in short, an ingrate.

Today's reactive nationalism heightens differences, emphasizes singular virtues associated with a politically defined people and seeks to instill loyalty and commitment to the state and its emblems.

A book, the singular object, has the virtue of tethering the reader's experience of closure with the actual ending of pages and words.

As Myrtha in "Giselle" on May 27, Ms. Part mimed with incisiveness but danced with a singular lack of the same virtue.