Sentence examples for there were virtues from inspiring English sources

For someone like Thomas Carlyle, that medieval world was a very good world indeed, and one supposes that there were virtues in its limitations: Stern, self-sacrificing discipline mixed with witch burning.

But influenced by Coleridge he had come to see that there were virtues in social systems, even out-dated ones, else why would they have survived so long.

It's a system that may have worked once, but in a modern technocracy there are virtues besides the ability to win a hand-to-hand fight that a ruler would need.

There are virtues to both".

Of course there are virtues associated with smallness.

There are virtues to pragmatism, but it should be in the service of an underlying principle.

There are virtues that are more important to Clinton's campaign than excitement.

In my defense, there are virtues to being the new guy — I'm seeing the world through fresh eyes.

Those touches can be exciting, but there are virtues in the traditional style as well, and Mr. Davis is an eloquent partisan on their behalf.

But there are virtues to every flaw, and one virtue here was the hushed quality of the quiet bits abetted by the absolutely silent concentration of the huge audience.

In the brave new world of journalism, I think there are virtues to openly acknowledging what I don't know and inviting the reader on the journey of discovery with me.