Sentence examples for virtue into from inspiring English sources

From the lectern, Mr. Greenebaum pointed to the concrete ways that his congregation had put virtue into action.

"An unabashed vanity project that struggles to turn its own beautiful virtue into a virtue," judged Variety.

Rhetoric (as taught by Quintilian) was a central topic not as an end in itself but as an effective means of channeling moral virtue into political action.

For many families, allowing a daughter to work, much less to travel overseas unaccompanied, may call her virtue into question and threaten her marriage prospects.

As a preacher stands in the pulpit and hopes that the congregation will be improved by the word of God, so John Reith the minister's son cast the seeds of virtue into Britain.

Religions have developed deep and extensive doctrines -- meant, perhaps, to develop basic virtue into saintliness -- but often the most basic level of human empathy required of adherents is treated as just another such doctrine rather than as a foundation that must exist within a person and that no book can teach.

Many quotes from literature could be used to define Donald Trump, but few would be as exquisitely appropriate as one from Catch-22 about turning "vice into virtue, slander into truth, thievery into honor, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice".

Such doublespeak is straight out of Heller; "It was almost no trick at all," he wrote in "Catch-22," "… to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice.

But if she had sunk all her virtues into a parable, what was it about?

But fewer parents wish for their children to carry all these virtues into adulthood.

The experience, he concludes, probably did not "inscribe antidepressant virtues into my meridians".