Sentence examples for solid virtues from inspiring English sources

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.

Not only are most of them well into their 30s, but they know the dangers of being seen as hip in a world where solid virtues count for more.

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.

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.

It's in the varied tech elements that this Annie fails to capitalize fully on its rock-solid virtues.

All around me I see well-meaning attempts to teach children solid financial virtues.

Bouncy and inviting, 36 makes a bright showcase for its solid, modest virtues.

In Mann's novel, the vitality and the solid businesslike virtues of the Buddenbrook family are sapped by introspection, homosexuality, loss of interest in commerce, overindulgence in art, and illness.