Sentence examples for virtue good from inspiring English sources

The assumption that "not for profit" equates with virtue, good value and a high-quality service is a delusion.

But as I noted last May in an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, medical schools may be underemphasizing a much simpler virtue: good manners.

Even in the 17th century, when the Netherlands became a haven for religious refugees from the 30 Years' War and the Inquisition, tolerance was largely seen as a pragmatic virtue, good for business, so long as those with alien faiths kept their houses of worship out of sight.

Our own self-declared virtue, good intentions and self-interest do not change that one iota.

Given the Aristotelian insight that man is a social creature whose life finds meaning in his relation to other human beings, Jeffersonian eudaimonia - the Greek word for happiness -- evokes virtue, good conduct and generous citizenship.

Our natural human tendency when we are upset, angry about something or in conflict is to revert back to primitive behaviors (i.e. those behaviors that are absent of virtue, good manners, or political correctness).

Soviet art — we see it in the distance as a complete style, which has many virtues, good things about it.

Soviet art we see it in the distance as a complete style, which has many virtues, good things about it.

He clearly thought, at the beginning of his first term, that his evident personal virtues, good will, intelligence, willingness to compromise — virtues evident to him, too, since modesty is not part of the cool man's arsenal anymore than insecurity is — would bring rational right-wingers in his direction and push out the fringe on both sides.

Following traditional argumentative patterns in moral philosophy, Cardano distinguishes among goods of the mind (virtues), goods of the body (health, longevity), and goods of fortune.

But – leaving aside Rowling's personal virtues – just how good are the Cormoran Strike books?