Sentence examples for supreme virtues from inspiring English sources

Her weakness, her doubt, disgust Annabeth, for whom strength and certainty are supreme virtues.

Greaves's subject is far more than one particular bout — it's about the sport, and the business, of boxing, and he realizes his comprehensive and general view by way of a resolutely, obstinately precise attention to the particular details of one particular fight, one which, owing to the supreme virtues of its athletes, is among the supreme events in the history of the sport.

Such a system would make loyalty a supreme virtue and independence of thought a dangerous adventure.

It now concerned the relative merits of virginity (the supreme virtue) and marriage.

The supreme virtue of the show is that it puts the current crisis in context.

Once upon a time it would have been, for him, the supreme virtue.

Though, for the ancient Greeks, Desire "sits enthroned among the mighty laws", romantic love has no supreme virtue.

But patience is no longer a virtue, especially on the Web, which promises almost instantaneous communication and prides itself in the supreme virtue of speed.

This one was not in that class, but was still a reminder of the supreme virtue of the five-test series.

The clubhouse, which was mainly used by young players the Yankees had hired out of school or college, was festooned with aphorisms about the importance of winning, which Steinbrenner held as the supreme sporting virtue, and, perhaps, the supreme virtue, period.

But only through the struggle of affirmative action are they coming to realize that such compromises, wisely pursued, can actually serve a higher principle: the supreme virtue of being fair to those who have been most unfairly treated.