Sentence examples for very virtue from inspiring English sources

But that very virtue may be disproved.

Indeed, it is this very virtue of scientific methods that was so celebrated in the Enlightenment.

When one takes away another's right to vote, he is taking dead aim at democracy and undermining the very virtue that makes us the envy of the world.

So yes, there may be tools that can go some way to addressing such problems by very virtue of their design, their affordances, their patterns of use.

It's the kind of personal production that calls into question the very virtue of sincerity: I'd think better of its master-thinker and preëminent presence, Dinesh D'Souza (who co-wrote and directed it with John Sullivan), if the movie gave cause to believe that he was merely mouthing a prepared campaign line rather than expressing his actual viewpoints.

In his last Western, "The Restless Breed," from 1957, Dwan presents a Federal agent who tears off his badge and heads to a small border town to avenge the death of his father; possessed of a sense of righteousness, he brings a mounting body count and, though his victims are themselves unwelcome terrorizers, they horrify the town less than the man of virtue whose very virtue brings bloodshed.

But in defending it, we must resist undermining the very virtues we are defending".

The novel embodies the very virtues it exalts, the same virtues that probably relegate it, like its titular hero, to its perpetual place in the shade.

In it he raised the possibility that the material abundance that capitalism produces might destroy the very virtues that had made capitalism possible in the first place.

The church's leaders have also set themselves up to be dismissed as hypocrites, unable to uphold the very virtues they promulgate.

Neither a woolly-jumpered vicar nor a wild-eyed evangelist, Terence Copley is an enthusiast for the very virtues of tolerance and reasoned discussion that Ofsted advocates.