Sentence examples for the paramount virtue from inspiring English sources

Let us grant that being "well-meaning" is not necessarily the paramount virtue in a complicated world full of suffering people.

She regarded loyalty as the paramount virtue and anyone, even among her husband's greatest admirers, who went even the tiniest bit 'off message', as we would say now, would be brutally ejected from her circle, often never to be readmitted.

Eisgruber's practical recommendations for fixing the confirmation process boil down to having senators stand up for themselves during hearings, unafraid to say no, but his larger point is that, in pursuit of justice, moderation is the paramount virtue; even confirmed liberals and conservatives should, as a rule, prefer a moderate to someone who matches their more radical views.

But with so much of the media locked into of what Jay Rosen memorably dubbed "the view from nowhere," in which balance is the paramount virtue, even over truth, the laundering of Trump's ugly rhetoric has been happening anyway.

Both the left and the right agree that respect for women is a paramount virtue.

It wasn't until the Romantic era, which introduced the notion of the author as solitary genius, that originality came to be viewed as the paramount literary virtue.

A paramount virtue in journalism is being the first to reveal startling facts.

Modesty is considered a paramount virtue among Orthodox Jews, so the fact that frum porn exists is strange.

Perhaps the whole episode of Xi Jinping's disappearance has been of no consequence to the leaders themselves, who view secrecy, not transparency, as a paramount virtue.

But I imagine he was probably taking his cues from the media, who have lately asserted that brusque, Northeastern "straight talk" is a paramount virtue that should be emulated by all.

Investors are no longer interested in secretive hedge fund managers and inscrutable quant trading strategies, and so personal relationships and personal responsibility on the part of financial advisers will be paramount virtues.