Sentence examples for virtue failure from inspiring English sources

What he demanded of himself was strenuous: It is these things that cause me concern: failure to cultivate virtue, failure to go deeply into what I have learned, inability to move up to what I have heard to be right, and inability to reform myself when I have defects.

(7 3) It is these things that cause me concern: failure to cultivate virtue, failure to go deeply into what I have learned, inability to move up to what I have heard to be right, and inability to reform myself when I have defects.

There is virtue in failure.

Attribution theory suggests a self-serving bias in attributions such that success is attributed to internal factors (such as personal virtue), and failure to external or situational factors.

"We cannot put America's safety in jeopardy by virtue of the failure of this committee and the failure of his leadership," Mr. Romney said.

Based on theories of firm-market boundary, Zenger et al. (2011) discuss the virtues and failures of markets and hierarchies.

Deeply moving, his work goes far beyond the simplicity of the surface of what we see, not shaped only by his African cultural heritage, but by his American inheritance of virtues and failures without distinction of color, but expression of soul.

It is less good at ensuring virtue or stability; failure is an inherent part.

It needs no F.D.A. approval, falling into the category of "cosmeceutical," one of those hybrid terms that automatically seems suspect by virtue of its failure to commit.

Cameron is likely in his speech almost to make a virtue of the failure of his policy to argue that extraordinary counter measures are now required to give a clear right for EU nation states to decide whether and when EU migrants should be allowed to be paid in-work tax credits.

In her ingenuousness and gullibility, Temple was at first a target for all sorts of tricks and exploitations; this sort of innocence or guilelessness, arising not from moral virtue but from failure to understand dissembling and pretense ("the dirty devices of the world," in Traherne's phrase), is almost universal among the autistic.