All the political-minded interviewees are left-wingers; there are no junta spokesmen, or intransigent landowners, or fresh-faced norteamericanos insidiously urging the virtues of free enterprise.
Clinton urged the virtues of democracy upon President Jiang Zemin and offered to act as a go-between for him and the Dalai Lama.
A different group of authors, however, became leaders in the new period Thomas Jefferson and the talented writers of the Federalist papers, a series of 85 essays published in 1787 and 1788 urging the virtues of the proposed new constitution.
Knowing that her son was anxious to move Grace had urged the virtues -- tennis courts and better air -- of the neighborhood around Columbia University but Hart knew that the attractions of his next address far eclipsed these prosaic amenities.
If this is in part a morality tale — permissiveness corrodes virtue, illicit urges undermine restraint — is morality itself a relative concept?
But finally he sighed on his deathbed, told the priest who had arrived one last time to urge on him the virtues of Jesus, "Sir, do not speak to me any more about that man and let me die in peace," and turned away.
It's quite another to ask a culture that doesn't accept Catholic moral ideals to respect an institution whose leaders can't seem to live out the virtues that they urge on others.
The Independent saw Johnson's decision in the context of "a now deeply divided cabinet" and urged Cameron "to make a virtue of his new-found zeal for a cause that he once despised".
This week, for example, the White House urged House Republicans to forget virtue and approve a Senate bill that extends the child tax credit to 6.5m low-income families, most of whom pay no income taxes in the first place.Congress's willingness to add a new entitlement to Medicare without tackling its structural problems is a disaster in the making.
Mr. Purdy is the home-schooled West Virginia wunderkind who last year, at the age of 25, published "For Common Things," an earnest, impassioned homily that urged us to rediscover civic virtue, both in government and in our private lives, and that blamed for our current malaise nothing less than irony itself.
Non-educators frequently urge "disruption" of education as a virtue, rather than something to be avoided.
