Sentence examples for small virtue from inspiring English sources

Ricks's book leads you back into Dylan's music, no small virtue.

There is small virtue in giving people only what they deserve.

"A man of small virtue, inclined to extravagance and alcoholism" is how Joyce described himself to Carl Jung.

A look may seem a small virtue — jeans ads have a look — but I always think that if, when you cast your eye on someone's work, you can say who made it, that's one big step toward their being an artist.

Those are no small virtues, but to me there's one more advantage.

These small virtues, so readily jettisoned, now reappear in the vain hunt for "community" and "cohesion", qualities, belatedly acknowledged to be more precious than jewels.

Small virtues abound, as do good small performances, from Samantha Bee as Wendy's sister, to Weber, who's always had a good line in weak and craven men.

Her 1961 classic, "Great American Cities," challenged the urban redevelopment that was transforming American cities; in it, she contended that vital communities depended on the varied street life and small-scale virtues of densely settled neighborhoods.

The V8's bin is quite small, by virtue of the whole unit being small, but it was big enough to do a complete house clean without needing to be emptied part way through.

Our sample size, despite high enrolment of available residents and students, was small by virtue of this being a single centre study.

But the politics of small-town virtue, and of Christian conservatism, have been almost entirely absent from this election.