Sentence examples for too much virtue from inspiring English sources

Too much virtue was thus seen as a vice.

Over hundreds of years, the firm must hold its fundamentals dear, yet constantly change, he says.Mr Collins is often criticised for seeing too much virtue in survival.

Moore's specialty was the working-class girl struggling to get by in a man's world without compromising too much of her virtue.

This doesn't seem persuasive, in part because it dilutes the meaning of civic virtue too much, and in part because it implies that a businessman who sells a cheeseburger to J. Edgar Hoover is committing civic evil.

Perhaps Romney was worried that all those even-keeled virtues sounded too much like Barack Obama, because he veered off into an attack on the current administration's foreign policy failures.

Heaney still has the great virtue of never saying too much, of letting the poem do so much work and no more.

If the planners commission too much capacity, consumers would pay.This scheme has virtues.

If corporate America's excesses in the last decade demonstrated the perils of having too much capital, Oakland's success has demonstrated the virtue of having just enough.

So far the administration has focused too much on the latter.The IMAC approach has the virtue of shielding difficult decisions about cost cutting from petty politics.

Aquinas accepts Aristotle's notion that every virtue is a mean between too much and too little, and he constantly stresses that it is reason — with the principles and rules (regulae) it understands — that settles the mean and thus determines what is too much or too little.

They have too much dignity, too great a heft of moral virtue in their hearts, to sully themselves with such unethical and vulgar dressings.