Sentence examples for virtue for example from inspiring English sources

Doreen Virtue, for example, is known less for her books than for her decks of angel "oracle cards" that can be used as a divination tool.

Butler did not mean that to act benevolently in each and every action was the entirety of virtue, for example as we shall see in the next section moral resentment was an appropriate attitude for a virtuous agent.

A climate of virtue, for example, is one in which trustworthiness tends to be pervasive, because the virtues (i.e. those other than trustworthiness) tend to enhance trustworthiness (Baier 2004).

In the Metaphysics of Morals "Doctrine of Virtue," for example, he warns against the dangers of affects and passions, and urges apathy and self-mastery: "unless reason holds the reins of government in his own hands, a human being's feelings and inclinations play the master over him" (MM 6 408).

But to write five novels (Scott) or seventeen (Nabokov) — to make a career — you must have, with brilliance, a number of less glamorous virtues, for example, patience, resilience, and courage.

"Serenade" had all of Jones's longtime virtues — for example, wonderful stagecraft (sets, costumes, lighting) and beautiful small groups, trios especially — and all his vices; notably, his self-regard.

Frederick Douglass extolled the medium's virtues, for example, arguing that the act of being photographed was a performance that demanded as much from the sitter as from the photographer.

Another contemporary school is virtue ethics, for example Philippa Foot in Natural Goodness (2001) and Rosalind Hursthouse in On Virtue Ethics (1999).

'In virtue of', for example, requires a sentence as its first argument and a sentence nominalization or a singular term derived from a sentence as its second.

Strong conventionalists claim that the differences and similarities that we attribute to things exist in virtue of, for example, the social function of the relevant concepts rather than in natural facts.

Another challenge concerns the multiple meanings associated with some virtues (consider, for example, mathematical versus ontological simplicity).