Now we take the private lives of politicians as personally as we used to take the virtue of actors.
In the work of other writers, there is often irony or ambivalence for the reader to unpick, but in Steinbeck one learns quickly to take the virtue - and the vice - at face value.
We can best appreciate the notion that virtue is the good, then, if we take virtue as both acknowledging that the universe is well governed and adopting the point of view, so to speak, of the government (DL VII 87-9).
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Investigating this administration's misdeeds will take years; the virtue of the censure resolution is that it calls for the immediate question.
During this time differentiation between samples take place by virtue of their (in general) different responses to the interventions administered in the trial.
Some care ethicists have sought to take the virtues that had long been relegated to the private realm, such as paying particular attention to those who are vulnerable or taking into consideration circumstances and not just abstract principles, and use them as well in the public realm.
MacGregor has taken that virtue and amplified it.
"Ultimately, vice just took over virtue, and he could not control himself," she says in the film, with a disarming, girlish laugh.
