Sentence examples for splendid virtues from inspiring English sources
"Had I got him, like so many other things in my life, because in addition to all my other splendid virtues, I had a white skin?" Marta is battered by the resentment of her daughter, Rebecca, who loathes her father, Dawid, and despises her mother's devotion to the white man who abandoned them.
A splendid reminder of the virtues of the traditional novel, this work tackles the territory of Balzac and Zola, not just in the solidity of its construction and characters, but in its readiness to tackle corruption in church and state.
One of the virtues of this splendid novel -- Funke's first to be translated into English -- is its final vision of youth and age, in which children who have been betrayed by life regain their trust in their elders.
She is also the author of Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title), and of Religion and Faction in Hume's Moral Philosophy, and has published widely on virtue ethics, early modern and modern moral thought, and political theology.
The Trattoria Milanese is a splendid illustration of the city's no-nonsense virtue.
Billboards extol the virtues of what one propaganda poster calls "the most beautiful and splendid city in the world".
Nabokov wrote of the game: "Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterise all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity and splendid insincerity".
Straightforwardness is a virtue in the Midwest, so Chicago's fanciest restaurants often seem both splendid and desperately out of place.
