Sentence examples for vigorous virtues from inspiring English sources

They know all about the vigorous virtues.

Shirley Letwin called these characteristics the "vigorous virtues".

"The vigorous virtues she championed have been a guide for me in my life and in my business".

To restore the vigorous virtues, the nanny state will have to be cut back, but the instigator state will have to be built up.

Yet as great as the need is to streamline, reform and prune the state, that will not be enough to restore America's vigorous virtues.

America became great, they explain, because its citizens possessed certain vigorous virtues: self-reliance, personal responsibility, industriousness and a passion for freedom.

The publishing industry has entered a phase of synthesis or consolidation, after a decade of vigorous, and often partisan, debate about the virtues and perils of moving the economic basis for journal publishing from the user (subscriber, whether individual or institution) to the author (granting agency, institution, or corporation).

We all remembered Thatcher's fascination with the "vigorous values" (energy, adventurousness, independence) over the "softer virtues" (humility, gentleness, sympathy).

This time, without succumbing to bitterness or nostalgia or overstating the case for one generation's virtues, he and his cohorts mount a vigorous and funny defense of maturity -- the last thing you might expect from a summer action picture, and one of the reasons "Space Cowboys" is one of the best entertainments this season has yet offered.

We must hope that decades from now it will be remembered that such pubs were named for the vigorous pursuits that gave country life its meaning and virtue.

The Institute's selections have the virtue of relative unfamiliarity, though: Jean-Paul Rappeneau's vigorous, dopey 1995 costume drama, "The Horseman on the Roof" (screening March 14), and two of Leos Carax's wild exercises in morbid romanticism, "Mauvais Sang" ("Bad Blood," 1987; screening Feb. 29) and "The Lovers on the Bridge" (1991; screening March 7).