Sentence examples for virtue of age from inspiring English sources

If the virtue of age is wisdom, he says, "the temptation is despair, or even disgust.

And simply by virtue of age, things that meant something to the adults meant nothing to the adolescents.

Very few of those people are specialists; typically they hold ritual authority by virtue of age, genealogy, or political office and are primarily responsible for the ritual well-being only of the members of the social groupings that they head; their congregations consist of their joint families, lineages, clans, local village communities, chieftaincies, or the like.

To act as a proxy for those who cannot make the decision about this value themselves, whether by virtue of age or lack of access to technology, is irresponsible.

By virtue of age, all neonatal and newborn CD8+ T cells have recently exited the thymus.

Proxy versions are useful when study subjects are unable by virtue of age (too young), mental incapacity (e.g., senile), or health status (unconscious), to answer for themselves.

During those years, you're going to mature naturally just by virtue of aging.

The Windsors also appreciate the virtues of age and experience.

One of the virtues of age is the lessons of survival, and more specifically the calculation of how many heartbeats to parcel out over which concerns.

They have been married for 53 years and, Mr. Carter writes in "The Virtues of Aging," they are closer than ever.

One of his greatest pleasures, he writes in "The Virtues of Aging," has been showing his grandson Joshua, who is 15, how to tie flies.