Sentence examples for virtue having from inspiring English sources
While Nolan's film has been largely praised from all quarters since its 2008 release – its chief virtue having been to elevate the in-vogue superhero genre to the level of smart-thinking, dark-tinted adult cinema – the fact remains that the end result is a clunky, bloated picture.
In one of the essays in "The War Against Cliché" Martin Amis writes that as a literary journalist, "John Updike has that single inestimable virtue: having read him once, you admit to yourself, almost with a sigh, that you will have to read everything he writes".
That homespun virtue has been obliterated here.
Virtue has to be its own reward.
Honor and virtue have crossed the sea.
Virtue has sometimes to be its own reward.
Once more, virtue has been stolen with false assurances.
The equation of physical fitness with virtue has ancient roots.
I have written no play in which virtue has been more celebrated than in this one.
Mr Barroso's virtue has been rewarded this week with his appointment to the presidency of the European Commission.
What next, then, if even her attempt at virtue had failed?
