Sentence examples for sort of virtue from inspiring English sources

Decency, here, is a circumspect sort of virtue.

It wasn't a compliment but it's not untrue, and one can make some sort of virtue even out of bad habits".

In fact, they routinely claim it as some sort of virtue — as if living to ninety were primarily the result of hard work or prayer, rather than good genes and never getting run over by a truck.

He is an exponent of what might be thought of as a Slow Foot movement, asserting that a sort of virtue is forged in the discipline of wearing exquisite, handmade shoes, even if they cramp the metatarsals.

Several passages in the Laws suggest that the sort of virtue that Plato thinks the citizens of Magnesia ought to exhibit involves an impartialist sort of regard for the good of the cosmos as a whole rather than a special regard for one's own good.

This makes the education of the citizens a topic of great importance for interpreters of the Laws as well, especially insofar as understanding what effect the educational program of Magnesia can be expected to have on the citizens will help us to understand what sort of virtue the citizens can be expected to have.

For a recent defense of the claims that non-philosophers in the Republic have a meaningful sort of ordinary virtue that nonetheless falls short of full virtue, and that Plato's views of ordinary virtue in the Republic and the Laws are importantly continuous, see Kraut (2010).

Ethanol has all sorts of virtues.

The Kesebirs point out that these sorts of virtues are most relevant to economic production and exchange.

I'm old enough to have grown up in a time when the sorts of virtues championed here - wholesome curiosity, diligent teamwork, pluck and decency - still enjoyed some currency, especially in schools and in the cub scouts.

But is this sort of natural virtue really adequate to those moral/political concerns that transcend intimate personal relationships?