Sentence examples for upon the virtue from inspiring English sources
Free markets, in order to function well, depend upon the virtue of their participants.
When Turrell visited, Hodges would take him to concerts and museums, expounding upon the virtues of engagement with modern life.
The description of "patient simulator" actors in medical education ("Medical Students Get Taste of Real-Life Doctoring") expounded upon the virtues of convenience and uniformity.
She, along with other colleagues, has started a trauma resource treatment center in western Massachusetts for low-income women and their children, predicated in part upon the virtues of repression.
Solomon (who makes a memorable appearance in Richard Linklater's Waking Life expounding upon the virtues of existentialism) observes that sentimentality is seen as a bad thing, as to be labeled a sentimentalist is to be derided as a hypocrite and fraud.
It impressed upon him the virtues of tough love.
The success of a dictatorship, like the success of the resistance to it, depends not on a few "great leaders" but upon the civic virtue of the average citizen.
Replete with extravagant dresses, ostentatious headpieces studded with rhinestones, the event is every girl's dream at least that's what the adults say, whether they're extolling the virtue of the carnival upon Memi, begging her to not cry, whine, or complain about the $2,000 headpiece that is "straining [her] neck a lot" or causing her to "pass out".
And what is the virtue of that?
The virtue of care must be considered in the choice to sacrifice one person's life for the lives of five; it would be nearly impossible to chose between the single person and five persons if a decision based upon virtue is strictly concerned with the wellbeing of all six people.
