The properly Christian virtue of humility has refined the generic virtue of modesty.
By virtue of the slightly increased lattice constant, refined grains with relatively large surface area, improved electronic and ionic conductivities, the modified products exhibit excellent long-term cycling stability at a high current rate of 10 C and outstanding rate performance at 0.1 40 C.
Pervasive, the impulse to produce appears in each and every one of the myriad creatures while in human beings it is refined into the virtue of "humaneness", which, when fully realized, involves one's caring attitude and dedicated responsibility toward others.
Molasses was the residue of refining sugar.
The golden age of refining is history.
Instead of refining, I was playing.
By virtue of the >1 million phenotyping assays made freely available on the IMPC resource, this is a testable hypothesis and would offer one method of refining genotype-phenotype associations to the long-awaited position in which they can begin to offer accurate predictions.
Ideologically, artistic labor "refined work" for middle-class women by virtue of its association with the private, domestic sphere and with the "'high culture' discipline of the fine arts" (p. 8).
I would never argue that this culinary tradition - which makes a virtue of chicken fat, the deep-fat fryer and the boiling of perfectly good pieces of meat - is refined.
Moral philosophy can deepen our love for virtue, refine our understanding of the virtues, and enrich our understanding of ourselves, all of which can conduce to a firmer moral disposition and to a wiser, more careful approach to moral decisions, but it cannot and should not replace the common-life processes by which we actually make those decisions.
That was his virtue of virtues.
