Sentence examples for social virtues from inspiring English sources

But as his athletic skill became evident, so did his social virtues.

Makers of this type of furniture shared a belief in the social virtues of good design and handcraftmanship.

The normal colour given to this imperial program was religious, for the coinage types commonly embraced such characteristically Roman concepts as Aequitas (Justice), Fides (Faith), and Concordia (Harmony)—social virtues operating in the guise of minor deities.

At the same time, families who once used private planes to fly their children's friends and even pets to vacation home sleep overs are now preaching the social virtues of scheduled air travel.

Newson's career as arguably the most influential industrial designer of his generation and the leading exponent of the so-called design-art movement may stand as much on the quasi-­moral power of design to affirm the social virtues of wit, proportion, elegance and simplicity, as on his obsession with futuristic forms and modernist aesthetics.

He traced parallel tracks with his follow-up books: Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995), which was popular in the business market; and The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (1999), a conservative look at American society in the second half of the 20th century.

"Thatcher redefined D.I.Y. as a social virtue, a form of individualism," Bolton said.

Decisions about how we want our food produced and delivered are decisions about what counts as social virtue.

"I stop being 'me' for a little while and become 'us', and that way lies empathy, the great social virtue".

You can also see the effects of that social education, as its moralism was mixed with tyranny, individuality suppressed in favor of legislated social virtue.

"What 'The Goldbergs' did is make a social virtue of what was an inadvertent consequence of living in such close quarters," she said.