Sentence examples for to be virtue from inspiring English sources

Liz Jones, who is an expert on pregnancy in the same way I am an expert on ponies, took it personally and found the cradling to be "virtue signalling as though the rest of us barren harridans deserve to burn alive in our cars".

There's supposed to be virtue in keeping your head while everyone around you is losing theirs, but time and again, we see supposedly serious people making the case that the only way to properly respond to security threats is to very quickly demonstrate one's capacity for losing one's mind completely.

Even the man's frailties turn out to be virtues.

Human charity and empathy for one's fellow citizens are considered to be virtues for the weak.

As Comte-Sponville points out, even the more modest virtues are crucial, and the greater ones can often be said not to be virtues at all, or at least not in themselves.

For many years, this was seen to be a virtue.

Simplicity turns out to be a virtue, however: the songs take centre stage.

At times we seem to be reading virtue rather than poetry.

"Philanthropy tends to be by virtue of who I know, not where I go," he said.

There are those who consider self-training to be a virtue in a restaurant kitchen; I do not.

In China, hard work is not only considered to be a virtue, it is also a trait demanded of all people of integrity.