Sentence examples for suspect virtue from inspiring English sources

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Braininess was a lesser and more suspect virtue.

Page-turning excitement has long been a suspect virtue in a literary novel, and some critics have disparaged McEwan as a hack with elegant prose.

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It needs no F.D.A. approval, falling into the category of "cosmeceutical," one of those hybrid terms that automatically seems suspect by virtue of its failure to commit.

France's Human Rights League accused Valls of "participating in the stigmatisation of a category of French people who have become suspect by virtue of their faith".

As a result, infertile men and women are often viewed as medically, psychologically, or societally disadvantaged: "socially suspect... disabled by virtue of their childlessness".

Some of his more annoying traits are, I suspect, meant as rare virtues.

But most of all, I suspect she was extolling the virtues of a very old way of being, one set out by the poet John Keats nearly 200 years ago, when he wrote about "negative capability" – roughly, the ability to thrive in uncertain circumstances – of which more later.

Scenes like this are routinely repeated in urban areas across America and at times lead to the senseless beating or shooting of young blacks who are suspects by virtue of their skin color.

There, intelligence is viewed as suspect and chastity weird; virtue as smugness, and saintliness a direct provocation.

We also note that the demonstration of corazonin neuron involvement within stress response behaviors is paralleled by previous observations describing suppression of GnRH (suspected corazonin homolog, by virtue of receptor similarities) release as part of the stress response in mammals, by virtue of its modulation of stress hormones [4].

Henry Tang, chairman of the Committee of 100, a group of Chinese-Americans engaged in public policy issues, said that in enforcing the new rules, security officials "are no different than a highway patrolman suspecting someone merely by virtue of their physical characteristics".

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