Sentence examples for various virtues from inspiring English sources

Despite his aesthetic perfections, Genji is no paragon -- he is by turns a rake, a sulk, a sentimentalist, a cad -- but he never forgets a single one of the women (or men) he romances, and he savors their various virtues with almost religious devotion.

In Plato's Protagoras, Socrates seems to identify happiness with pleasure and to explain the various virtues as instrumental means to pleasure.

In mainstream science if an hypothesis is accepted as the best explanation (where 'best' can include various virtues such as simplicity and comprehensiveness as well as a certain empirical adequacy) there is a good hope that in the future fresh independent tests of the hypothesis may be possible so that the hypothesis may become part of mainstream science.

To be sure, the virtuous person may be able to achieve a greater integration of his or her ends via practical reasoning (because of the way the various virtues cohere), but this is a difference in the result of practical reasoning and not in its structure.

Kelly is 42 and so attractive that entire articles have been written mooning over her various virtues, physical and otherwise.

To reach The Mansion of Happiness, the player spins a teetotum and races around a sixty-six spiralspiral track depicting various virtues and vices.

Maddy's main focus is on axioms for set theory, and she argues that there are various theoretical virtues, with no direct link to 'self-evidence', which axioms may possess.

Both involve some requirement to be somewhat faithful to the target system, but in each case faithfulness must be weighed up against various theoretical virtues like simplicity, computational tractability and so on.

And various explanatory virtues (depth, force, scope) all depend on well-confirmed generalizations to supply the resources for explanans and targets for explananda.

The cards of the major arcana have pictures representing various forces, characters, virtues, and vices.

Its cast includes three vividly drawn women and a host of supporting characters who come across as paper dolls representing various vices and virtues like Self-Righteousness, Adolescent Self-Absorption, Fuzzy Idealism and Aged Wisdom.