Sentence examples for virtue for all from inspiring English sources

I'd be extra-suspicious of any ethicist (or baker or harpsichordist, for that matter) who offered himself up as a paragon of virtue for all others to emulate.

A pre-publication review in the Indian newsweekly India Today revealed that Rushdie had irreverently rewritten the life of the Prophet, the paradigmatic figure of virtue for all Muslims, naming him Mahound, the term used to identify him as a devil in medieval Christian caricature, and placing his 12 wives in a brothel.

What is more, given this analysis it is far from clear that the moral theorist is in any position to recommend the same disposition, i.e., the same virtue, for all agents in this population: some should be "Hawks" others "Doves" (see also Kuhn 2004).

The best we can do to find positive cosmopolitanism in Diogenes is to insist that the whole Cynic way of life is supposed to be cosmopolitan: by living in accordance with nature and rejecting what is conventional, the Cynic sets an example of high-minded virtue for all other human beings.

It told that she was a woman of instincts and almost violent passions; that she wore her vices, as well as her virtues, for all to see; that her allure was a result not of impossible fame or even beauty, but of an inhuman femininity; that despite the jet-set life, the jewels and the husbands, she retained an Englishness, a hominess, a love of children and animals that was recognizably real.

In his dedicatory introduction, Galileo wrote: Scarcely have the immortal graces of your soul begun to shine forth on earth than bright stars offer themselves in the heavens which, like tongues, will speak of and celebrate your most excellent virtues for all time.

Mr Tuschi is impressed by Mr Khodorkovsky's decision to stay in Russia when he might have fled, and by his defiance in prison; but he seems too willing to see persecution as sufficient proof of virtue.Yet for all its quirks, Mr Tuschi's film conveys the venal brutality that underpins Mr Putin's rule.

She gets by here with the overrated values of intelligence and charm, the sorts of skills that can be mastered and put constructively to work; in an age of demagogic responsibility, control and self-control are the highest virtues, accounting for all sorts of aesthetic distortions.

Windows Azure has the virtue of familiarity for all those developers weaned on Microsoft programming tools and techniques.

And every president, Democrat and Republican alike, trumpeted the virtues of homeownership for all Americans.

Patriotism, which is a virtue for people of all faiths, requires that we fight, ethically and nonviolently, for what we believe.