"And since ceiling height is a valuable virtue of an apartment," he said, "we even have to be careful about saying how high the ceilings are".
But given such dramatic career clock changes, patience may be a most valuable virtue for players like Raonic, Harrison and Bernard Tomic of Australia.
All three insisted on ultimate command; this can be a valuable military virtue, but it is scarcely a skill transferable to the political arena.
For Brody, life is a toolbox for his work; every emotion he has ever experienced is valuable by virtue of the fact that it can be used.
Computer keyboards, pages from wall calendars, a file cabinet and dozens of other items that are valuable by virtue of their connection to cultural history, like Judy Garland's ruby-red "Wizard of Oz" slippers at the Smithsonian.
Such bearers of value are valuable in virtue of the abstract value or values they instantiate or display (so, for example, an institution might be valuable in virtue of the liberty or equality that it engenders or embodies).
It is not clear where to place justice in this hierarchy, since Ross says only that it is less valuable than virtue (RG 153 154).
Items that are "roughly equal" or "on a par" are valuable in virtue of different respects; the value realized in choosing one item may not cancel the loss in not choosing the other.
This Problem of Good was, in the past century, raised specifically against views akin to the simple picture of pleasure, on which pleasure is valuable by virtue of its intrinsic nature, perhaps just because of the way it feels in its moment, and independently of our or other animals' actually desiring or pursuing it.
Genic SSR markers are highly valuable by virtue of their high transferability to related species, usefulness in functional diversity analysis and utilization as anchor markers for comparative mapping and evolutionary studies [ 16].
