Sentence examples for sturdy virtues from inspiring English sources

Allan Bloom and Gertrude Himmelfarb warned that sturdy virtues are being diluted into shallow values.

To me, the Giants represented substance over style, and a set of old-fashioned, sturdy virtues, which, as every younger generation is told, are fading from the world.

"The surprise of this movie — a welcome one — is that, in the midst of obeying the rules of modern-day spectacle, it sticks close to some of the sturdy virtues of the source material," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times last November.

No longer rooted in the sturdy virtues of self-reliance, we are adrift on the turbulent seas of white male paranoia and anxiety.

Grigor McClelland, who has died aged 91, brought sturdy Quaker virtues to business management and helped to pioneer the subject as an academic discipline.

Designed for the Alaskan coast, the Miss Lis, named for Dominique's wife, was a class smaller than the Elsbeth II but shared many of its virtues: sturdy build, shallow draft, storm-worthy behavior.

His revolutionary activities are spectacular but civilian-friendly: blowing up the Old Bailey (London's central criminal court) and the Houses of Parliament in the middle of the night, while loudspeakers blare the finale of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture".The story is notable for its sturdy Old Hollywood virtues.

It is entirely characteristic of Hoffman to find "sturdy cheerfulness" a virtue in a man who had been on the side of great wickedness.

He wasn't enough of an Everyman to compete against the "Man from Abilene," Dwight Eisenhower, whose biographer played Ike's home town for all it was worth: "The lusty pioneer energies that built it had moved farther West, but they left behind a robust, independent settlement whose rugged population knew the value of hard work and took for granted the virtues of sturdy individualism".

Learning Self-Sufficiency Growing up in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Ill., Mrs. Clinton learned early the virtue of a sturdy spine and stiff upper lip.

The virtue of a sturdy fence is held in no higher esteem than in Southern California, where the gated community was perfected and people barricade themselves in until it seems as if the doghouse merits its own ZIP code.