Sentence examples for trait of character from inspiring English sources

• To the Editor: David Brooks seems to do away with the trait of "character" and substitutes a boiling caldron of psychological urges that compete with one another.

"My family is buried politically," Adams admitted, and he was right to think so; Grant wrote elsewhere that Adams's family "did not possess one noble trait of character that I ever heard of".

Recent historians have pointed to Lincoln's fatalistic, impersonal style as evidence, in David Donald's words, of "the essential passivity of his nature," the trait of character that made him say in a letter in early 1864, "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me".

For fear someone might see them and think they were dancing), a trait of character he shared with Cockcroft, a veteran of the first world war who, on his return from the trenches, informed his girlfriend that they could not think of being married until he had achieved financial security, which took him nine years.

It is only when, and because, the action's cause is some enduring passion or trait of character in the agent that she is to blame for it.

They assume that behavior is often sufficient to indicate the presence of a trait of character, and they ignore the other psychological aspects of character (both cognitive and affective) that, for most of the philosophers discussed in this entry, form a more or less consistent and integrated set of beliefs and desires.

Our job is to find out what traits of character we need to become virtuous.

"Morality isn't traits of character but a complicated set of judgments," he said.

In newspaper obituaries, it was long customary to lavish praise on the subjects, noting laudable traits of character.

Finally, to be a quarterback is to possess those ineffable traits of character — work ethic, poise under pressure, resilience after even a devastating mistake.

Simone Weil, in describing traits of character of the Romans, wrote, "With unswerving resolution, they always sacrificed everything to considerations of prestige..."....