Women-related traditional ideology consolidated by Confucian ideas of twenty centuries embraces ethical values concerning gender roles, chastity, views of marriage, motherhood and virtue embodied in clothes.
"We've lost our grip on the essential virtues embodied by a narrator: the capacity to make sense of the world, both around and inside us".
In evolving from readers to viewers, we've lost our grip on the essential virtues embodied by a narrator: the capacity to make sense of the world, both around and inside us.
They also promote a complex inverse chauvinism that ridicules the claims of British authority and derring do while firmly believing that the virtues embodied in the unlikely figures of the lecherous Sid James or the camp Kenneth Williams are essentially British.
With help from a partisan media that was openly sympathetic to Western interests, Jackson and his acolytes essentially transformed a stroke of military good fortune into an idealization of American exceptionalism one that democratized the uniquely American virtues embodied in Jackson's scraggy persona.
Ms. Cortez's work was beyond category by virtue of embodying so many categories simultaneously: written verse, African and African-American oral tradition, the discourse of political protest, and jazz and blues.
He becomes an aware man, an increasingly honest man and not too proud of it, conscious that the virtue can embody a multitude of sins.
The ostensible subject of "Gladiator," set in second-century Rome, is the power of virtue, as embodied by a noble general of humble origins, Maximus (Russell Crowe), who is marked for execution by the aged Emperor Marcus Aurelius's viperish son, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), after Aurelius makes the general his heir apparent.
True, he was a member of a dying breed -- the old school of academic male poets -- but to disparage Matthews as a mere example of a lifestyle is to miss the great Horatian virtue he embodied: that of civility, which entailed the lost art of conversing.
And his virtues are embodied in Meet Me In St Louis.
He recounts key episodes in the lives of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to Anwar Sadat, examining the virtues they embodied, whether foresight, confidence or inspiration.
