Sentence examples for solid virtue from inspiring English sources

Helmut Kohl, who ruled Germany from 1982 until 1998, and was widely regarded as the quintessence of solid virtue, has been castigated for flouting the party-finance laws he had himself enacted, in order to keep his Christian Democrats in power.

But they, for all their solid virtues, are unlikely to push hard for change.

Hughes, one senses, may not be the manager they would have chosen but they recognise his solid virtues.

Stuart Lancaster now has to decide whether to plump for the more solid virtues of Brad Barritt and Luther Burrell against Wales in the opening game of the Six Nations, with every indication Barritt's defensive prowess will count in his favour.

As actor, playwright, script- writer and gameshow personality he had solid virtues, but his versatility may have told against him, and his range was certainly wider than it was deep.

Lord Hurd carefully charts the road he took to conversion; he was a politician who spurned rhetoric and tried to avoid prejudice, preferring the solid virtues of fact and evidence.He was a bundle of contradictions.

Where most head coaches prefer to stay low-key and preach solid virtues of modesty and hard work, last summer Ryan became the star turn in HBO's Hard Knocks, a fly-on-the-wall TV series that focused on the Jets' pre-season.

A 1932 Town & Country article remarked, "What is true of architecture is true of everything, from skyscrapers to Ernest Hemingway," and praised Tiffany & Company updates of Colonial silver as "quiet, mannerly pieces of solid virtues which can be used with decorum in a room... which is content to rest on the accomplishments of the English Georgian period".